Biggest single surround release?

[Ranasakawa]

Could it be Jimi Hendrix?

 

[ubertrout]

I know classical ruins all these comparisons, but the San Francisco Symphony's Mahler Project is 17 full SACDs, over 18 hours of music. And then I realized that this exists, and presumably is the winner.

 

[Neil Palfreyman]

...loving all the replies and enthusiasm!

I don't know anything about final format(s) or release dates yet, though I would guess at first half of 2022 for the latter and whatever format(s) it is, the surround is highly likely to be uncompressed.

Sorry to be such a tease (well, sorry, not sorry, really ) ...but rest assured; you'll know who/what it is just as soon as I'm allowed to tell you.

 

[H.A.L.]

If it were Eno, the total ambience might be just the tranquilizer we need these days . . . blissing out for a few weeks straight sounds really nice!

 

[RustyStatic]

I didn't expect to wake up feeling all Scooby-Doo about continuing to work on the mystery within this QuadraphonicQuad Holiday Special™, but here we are...

OK gang, "knowing the music *very* well" seems to point to a legacy artist that is likely gonna be a mind-blower upon reveal. What usually thwarts (or neuters) these releases? When the creative and/or legal owners of the music are still around and can bicker with one another or block the releases outright (*cough* Floyd *cough* Paul Simon *cough*). So for fun, let's start with... 1) Who has an estate that has proven very motivated to get big sets out there while us SuperDeluxers that are willing to pay for 'em still walk the earth?

And let's add 2) Who might still be sitting on a sizable amount of truly unreleased material after all of this time?

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But what if we layer on 3) Who has a demonstrable history of dabbling in quad/surround?

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[Fourplay]

Wild Man Fischer - The Later Years....

 

[J. PUPSTER]

I didn't expect to wake up feeling all Scooby-Doo about continuing to work on the mystery within this QuadraphonicQuad Holiday Special™, but here we are...

OK gang, "knowing the music *very* well" seems to point to a legacy artist that is likely gonna be a mind-blower upon reveal. What usually thwarts (or neuters) these releases? When the creative and/or legal owners of the music are still around and can bicker with one another or block the releases outright (*cough* Floyd *cough* Paul Simon *cough*). So for fun, let's start with... 1) Who has an estate that has proven very motivated to get big sets out there while us SuperDeluxers that are willing to pay for 'em still walk the earth?

And let's add 2) Who might still be sitting on a sizable amount of truly unreleased material after all of this time?

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But what if we layer on 3) Who has a demonstrable history of dabbling in quad/surround?

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Nice… or

 

[Tres Discrete]

Please let it be Queen

 

[citysoundman]

I know classical ruins all these comparisons, but the San Francisco Symphony's Mahler Project is 17 full SACDs, over 18 hours of music. And then I realized that this exists, and presumably is the winner.

Thanks for sharing! Wow, this set was quite an undertaking by BIS and Suzuki. I just ordered the 10 disc set of secular cantatas

 

[Owen Smith]

Please let it be Queen

Extremely unlikely. Brian May would insist in being involved in the mixing, and that would make it take a decade per album minimum.

 

[LuvMyQuad]

I didn't expect to wake up feeling all Scooby-Doo about continuing to work on the mystery within this QuadraphonicQuad Holiday Special™, but here we are...

OK gang, "knowing the music *very* well" seems to point to a legacy artist that is likely gonna be a mind-blower upon reveal. What usually thwarts (or neuters) these releases? When the creative and/or legal owners of the music are still around and can bicker with one another or block the releases outright (*cough* Floyd *cough* Paul Simon *cough*). So for fun, let's start with... 1) Who has an estate that has proven very motivated to get big sets out there while us SuperDeluxers that are willing to pay for 'em still walk the earth?

And let's add 2) Who might still be sitting on a sizable amount of truly unreleased material after all of this time?

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But what if we layer on 3) Who has a demonstrable history of dabbling in quad/surround?

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I think the second one is an especially good guess. All the live stuff in that vault fits the bill

 

[ubertrout]

Thanks for sharing! Wow, this set was quite an undertaking by BIS and Suzuki. I just ordered the 10 disc set of secular cantatas

It really was! Recording them was from 1995-2013; the first half were done at CD resolution but they went back to the multitracks so at least the surround is a real discrete mix. The secular cantatas were just completed I believe, another 10 SACDs, and there's a lot more. I wouldn't be surprised if they do another even bigger SACD box, since the sacred cantatas box has sold out: eClassical - Bach Collegium Japan

 

[esimms86]

Haha - maybe not then!



...actually, although it's been a mammoth undertaking, this one has been an absolute joy to play test. I know most of the material *very* well (though there's a substantial quantity of unreleased stuff) and the guy doing the mixing has done a stellar job before he sent them to me, so very little by way of fixing required. Just a lot of enjoyment and a bit of "polishing" suggestions on my part...

I’m glad to hear that the guy who did the mixing did a great job because you can’t polish a turd!

 

[esimms86]

Total playing time huh? Sooooo, it's a band or artist that likes loonnnnnggg songs. Hmmmm.....lmao Metallica historically likes long songs. So does Maiden. haha, dream on, dream on....

No, not Aerosmith.

 

[esimms86]

Since the Chicago QUADIO 9 BD~A set includes 3 double discs .... Hmmmm!

And Neil we're depending on your GOLDENEARS for SONIC PERFECTION. No Snafus like switched channels, out of phase info or missing instruments! The always astute QQ POLICE are EVER VIGILANT!officer krupke

Ralphie, that would make it a West Side Story! I swear, this surround thing is a social disease!

 

[esimms86]

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Um, something bigger this way comes...

He‘s now equalizer out!

 

[hirez]

I don't know if it has been mentioned before but I would like a Dire Straits surround collection!

 

[Muppet69]

How about ELO?

 

[J. PUPSTER]

But what if we layer on 3) Who has a demonstrable history of dabbling in quad/surround?

or maybe just "The Who" whose 50th BD got nixed; maybe they decided to go with a more extensive release, or am I just shooting blanks in the dark- or hittin' me hard old head with two sledgehammers

https://elusivedisc.com/the-who-the-who-hits-50-blu-ray-disc/
and E.L.O. would work for me as well as The Who!

 

[esimms86]

or maybe just "The Who" whose 50th BD got nixed; maybe they decided to go with a more extensive release, or am I just shooting blanks in the dark- or hittin' me hard old head with two sledgehammers

https://elusivedisc.com/the-who-the-who-hits-50-blu-ray-disc/
and E.L.O. would work for me as well as The Who!

Sledgehammer would mean a Peter Gabriel box!