I agree with the overall sentiments of these posts – these are exciting, aggressive mixes and the sound is excellent. Great value for money. If only Harvest/EMI would do a straighforward release like this for Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother and the fabled Animals…
Re. the channel swap debate. I agree some of the placements are weird, but there is something that convinces me that the DVD is as intended: the finger clicks at the start of the disc. They alternate from centre front to centre rear, i.e. they are LF+RF then LS+RS. If the channels were swapped, they would be LF+RS and LS+RF. That would make them centre of listening area in both cases (assuming a perfect quad set up), so there would be no point alternating them. So I am sure the release is as intended. I agree with other posters that this was probably an attempt to be as radical as possible – obviously too radical.
It’s a pain for me to swap cables, or do it via software, so I’ve not actually heard the suggested change, but most people seem to think it sounds better swapped, and that in the end is what matters, so maybe I will try to get the software.
PS – I’ve obviously been reading this forum too much – I kept on typing ‘center’ and had to change it to the ridiculous spelling us Brits stick to.
