Amen to that, me too. Going to see the Classic Albums Live cover band do PF DSOTM at the Orlando Hard Rock on Fri. Not the same but as close as we can get live right now, and only $50
Bummer about that defective disc, both mine play perfect?
Well, I didn't want to order another one from the same eBay guy because he seemed kind of put out about having to refund that one. The disc at least somewhat played in a regular BD player (I was able to preview, but a couple of tracks still skipped), but then I tried a dremel polishing tool thing to try and get the scratches out (he didn't want the disc back) and ended up making it 100% unplayable and since it refused to dump at all, I only have the Auro-3D demo track now. Maybe I'll order one again at some point, but I'm not crazy about paying through the nose for jazz when I know I won't listen to it on a regular basis.
I'm already finding myself avoiding most of the tracks on Booka Shade's
Dear Future Self (I LOVE "Perfect Way" though; that track just rocks) and I just listened again to Galvany Street yesterday all the way through and while I thought was excellent the first listen, I'm now finding half the tracks don't do that much for me, at least not when I'm in the mood for some bass pounding stuff (oddly light on the bass/drums on that album, but does place objects all over creation which is nice, but eventually loses its stand-alone magic if the music doesn't move me).
Really, the one album in Atmos I keep playing constantly is Yello's
Point. It's just awesome. There's only two tracks I don't really care for (Zephyr Calling and Insane). I've already purchased and listened to four more Yellow albums (Essential plus the last 3 albums, "Toy" "Touch Yellow" and "The Eye") and even though I've listened to The Eye and Toy like 30 times now each, they just don't do as much for me as Point. I do love "Tiger Dust" on The Eye, though. The "hmmmm" sound appears about halfway out into the room in DSU and Neural X and about 35% with just stereo.
I think Toy and The Eye would be awesome in Atmos, but in stereo they're just very good. I couldn't get into most of Touch Yello and I only liked about half the tracks I heard on Essential so Yello isn't a "100%" kind of thing for me like Pink Floyd and Tori Amos were (OK, they're about more like 90% each, but both had a lot of albums and material so just playing through it takes hours at a time picking out favorites even).
I also remembered I had Yello's One Second on LP from a long time ago and dusted that one off and played it straight off the turntable on the Carver system. It was actually pretty good so I might still go back and get a few more full early albums.
At least I'm listening to some new (to me) music again. I went like 10+ years where I probably only bought around 8 albums. I've bought more music (due to Atmos and Auro) over the past two years than the previous 12 combined (and I have 12,000 songs and over 400 CDs and probably 50+ LPs). Something went wrong with mainstream pop and progressive rock after grunge and I had a hard time finding new music so I went back to the '60s and '70s and even the '30s and '40s for some stuff along with some Japanese anime soundtrack recommendations in the mid-90s from a friend in Connecticut. I discovered Electronica in the mid-90s too, but I haven't kept up with all of it. I've only got one Daft Punk album, but I have to wonder why they haven't put out an Atmos remix yet? They seem like they would be right on top of that.