Close TO The Edge in Atmos

[Petr Kropotkin]

The worst aspects of the current Yes reissues are price...

Well, no, price is irrelevant to me. They've been my favourite band for 50 years, and I've wanted them to go the whole hog with the reissues - like Floyd, and immerse me each time in Roger Dean posters, marbles, coasters, and scarves.

I'll even put up with 10 or 20 discs, like the Crimson box sets.

 

[Petr Kropotkin]

I work a 50+ hour work week as a practicing anesthesiologist, and the only opportunity I get to read the form is the highlights from the daily email in between cases....

Careful, you don't want to hear what four Yorkshiremen would say about that.

 

[Quadkid]

The best 5.1 mix of BSS is on the 2000 DVDA from Rhino. It also has a bonus track of Lucky Man in 5.1. It's been a while since I listened to it, but I thought the later Jakko mix was generally pretty good up until the last track. The mix of Karn Evil 9 3rd Impression is unaccountably missing the voice of the computer during the climactic confrontation - you can only hear a very faint echo of it in the other channels - which pretty much destroys the point of the track. That glaring error doesn't reflect well on Jakko and/or whoever was doing QC for that release.

The entire ELP catalog needs to be revisited in Atmos, but only if a good mixing engineer is given a free hand to make their own decisions. Apparently there are a lot of alternate track/takes to choose from.

I have that disc and just pulled it from my shelf to re-listen! Thanks for the reminder! I agree someone needs to “rework” the whole ELP catalogue!

 

[pakerney]

The same thing also applied to SACD players. I'd ask about them, and from the look on their faces, I could hear the crickets.

Reminds me of an experience I had when I was auditioning new speakers at my favourite store. I had told the salesman that I was bringing some favourite DVD-A's and SACD's to audition. I was assured that all necessary analogue cables would be in place before I arrived. When silence only was heard from the 7.1 source, my salesman checked the connections to discover that the interconnects were removed. Upon investigation, we found that a younger salesman discovered them there, decided that they were unnecessary and redundant, and removed them from the setup. When my guy started explaining to the younger guy, that guy did not know what my guy was talking about. And this when DVD-A's were still being sold in local stores.