In 2003, Columbia/Legacy reissued 15 selected titles from Bob Dylan's catalog as hybrid SACDs, playable in both regular CD players and Super Audio CD players. Each title was packaged as a digipak, containing the full original artwork. On each of the titles, and on each of the layers, the remastered sound was spectacular, a considerable upgrade from the initial CD pressings. Five of these titles -- Another Side of Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde, Bringing It All Back Home, Blood on the Tracks, Love and Theft -- also had 5.1 Surround Sound mixes. Since many Dylan fans are fanatical collectors and were likely to purchase all 15, Columbia/Legacy also released a box set containing all the masters. There is no extra packaging to the set -- just the box itself, a cardboard slipcase containing replicas of studio master tapes -- so collectors that somehow bought the 15 titles without realizing that the box exists aren't really missing out on anything special. However, the set is an excellent, convenient way to pick up all the titles at once, which is what most Dylan fans are likely to do anyway. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine|

Rovi