Elton John Diamonds (SDE Blu-Ray #31) Dec. 27th, 2024

[barfle]

I wonder if the delay has anything to do with my credit card issues. Some grinch tried to use the number just before Christmas, so they cancelled the card and are issuing a new one. In ten working days, which means that along with the holidays, I can be confident about getting my replacement by Valentine’s Day.

Wierdly, my monthly Apple charge went through with the new number, but I still don’t know it yet. I can get the last four digits, but that’s not helping anything.

 

[cdheer]

Once it reach the US, it went back-and-forth in Chicago twice

Sorry, sorry, that was me. I'd been drinking.

 

[cdheer]

Wierdly, my monthly Apple charge went through with the new number, but I still don’t know it yet. I can get the last four digits, but that’s not helping anything.

I literally just had the same thing happen a couple weeks ago. Bank mailed out a new card, but somehow Apple Pay updated itself before I got it.

 

[beerking]

Sir Elton John has been duly delivered by The Royal Mail.

But my listening time will have to wait until later today, as Grandad is looking after his Grandson George, now.
Which fills my heart with joy.

 

[colsky]

Mine has just arrived too, Happy New Year postman!

 

[martyn7772]

Diamonds on the door mat

 

[uffeolby]

Please report back as soon as you have started listening to, just to make the waiting for us outside the UK more bearable.

 

[Tobes22]

I'm up to Circle of Life, and so far, it's been as amazing as I hoped it would be. I'm listening on a 7.4.2 Atmos system. This is a lovely big HD upgrade from the Apple Music version. The bass sounds so much more dynamic, and the whole sound is much fuller. This will be the Atmos reference disk for a long while i think!

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

I'm backing-up my (43.1GB) disc now...

 

[beerking]

Class ...
Total Class

This is the best release by SDE....by far
Great graphics.
48 tracks in glorious Dolby Atmos!!
By Greg Penny, a total labour of love for him

I'll repeat ...this is complete and utter CLASS

Thank you Paul@SDE

 

[LennonCobain]

I literally just had the same thing happen a couple weeks ago. Bank mailed out a new card, but somehow Apple Pay updated itself before I got it.

I can tell you from my experience in banking that this is by design as a customer courtesy. For example, issuers of MasterCard-branded cards likely enroll in its Automatic Billing Updater service. Many consumers forget to update their billing details, so this service (if utilized by a merchant) will do so automatically thereby preventing things like missed payments or service cancellation.

 

[KG10]

Heres the DR rating for all the stereo tracks including the three bonus ones.

 

[KG10]

Well this is an interesting discovery! It looks like the stereo mixes were from a 44.1 master as shown with Spek and how there's a sharp cut off above 22k.

Tiny Dancer

Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)

Strangely one of the bonus songs Victim Of Love shows a little bit above 22k

 

[Bobby Martini]

I've given most of it a listen today.

Superb, especially the older tracks like Rocket Man, Daniel, Your Song etc.

I don't have an Atmos setup but it sounds great on my humble 5.1 system when it folds down/demixes/unzips itself/decodes/oobejeeflips/rogersitselfupsideitshead.

Great value for money and as someone with great fondness for '70s Elton it's amazing to hear these tracks sound like never before.

Definitely one of the best SDE releases

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

Given that my OPPO UDP-203, like most (if not all) hardware SoC players, don't know what to do with .cue navigation files that exceed 99 minutes I've had to divide this 220 minute album into three (17 track) parts

 

[JulesRules]

when it folds down/demixes/unzips itself/decodes/oobejeeflips/rogersitselfupsideitshead.

Well this is an interesting discovery! It looks like the stereo mixes were from a 44.1 master as shown with Spek and how there's a sharp cut off above 22k.
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Tiny Dancer
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Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
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Strangely one of the bonus songs Victim Of Love shows a little bit above 22k

The description "Hi-res stereo" is doing a lot of work there, it seems...

 

[4-earredwonder]

Class ...
Total Class

This the best release by SDE....by far
Great graphics.
48 tracks in glorious Dolby Atmos!!
By Greg Penny, a total labour of love for him

I'll repeat ...this is complete and utter CLASS

Thank you Paul@SDE

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, FARMER MIKE. THANKS FOR THE KIND WORDS

~ Sir EL

 

[H.A.L.]

Now I'm salivating and waiting by the post box.

 

[KG10]

The description "Hi-res stereo" is doing a lot of work there, it seems...

I know everyone including myself bought this for the atmos mixes, but I still would have expected the stereo mixes to be in proper 48k rather than upconverted from 24/44.1 (Even worse if its 16/44.1 as that would make the hi res terming for the stereo mixes false advertising)

 

[DuncanS]

I know everyone including myself bought this for the atmos mixes, but I still would have expected the stereo mixes to be in proper 48k rather than upconverted from 24/44.1 (Even worse if its 16/44.1 as that would make the hi res terming for the stereo mixes false advertising)

24-bit @ 44.1kHz up-sampled to 48kHz is not an issue, you won't be able to hear any difference.

Hi-Res does not mean higher sample rates as that is not what resolution indicates, that is the 24-bits. Higher sample rates spread the quantisation noise inherent in any sampling process over a wider bandwidth, and allow for low pass filtering with slower roll-off filter slopes.