TFM stood for The Frankfurt Master . A private pressing. A five-day window in 1999 when a German audio engineer named Klaus Brenner got his hands on the original 1974 master tapes of Santana’s Greatest Hits . He’d been hired to make a budget CD for a European grocery chain, but Brenner was an obsessive. He calibrated his Studer A820 with surgical precision, bypassed the limiter, and cut a short run of CD-Rs for friends. The commercial release was brick-walled garbage. The TFM was alive .

are favored by collectors to preserve the full frequency response and dynamic range of the original studio recordings. Typically delivered in CD-quality (16-bit/44.1kHz) or Hi-Res Audio (24-bit/96kHz). Audiophile Sources:

The "Best Of" collection showcases 18 essential tracks from Santana's illustrious career, including: