SPOTLIGHT Joni Mitchell The Asylum Albums (1972-1975) (Quadio Boxed Set)

[Davey-J]

My Alanis and Hootie showed up 2 weeks ago with no additional fees/taxes.
Fleetwood Mac and the Doors are at customs awaiting clearance. Should I have any additional fees/taxes added on, I will start doing my Rhino buys through Warner Canada when available.

I have started ordering from Warner Canada to avoid the reclaiming tax process. Typically you need to wait 2-3 weeks longer than Rhino orders for new releases. That being said, I received the latest 4 atmos releases on Monday of this week which I thought was good. Current discount of 15% being offered which makes the Warner Canada purchase on par with Rhino after taking into account international shipping and exchange rate.

 

[Wildgift]

Was that with one of the Joni Mitchell discs. ?

Yes, The new Joni Quads are giving me a BD+ error

 

[MichaelJCarr]

Yes, I can hear them.

Very audible two ticks on the Quadio disc. Only checked the stereo version.
Those clicks are not audible on my CD version.

 

[Victor Bisio]

Yes, The new Joni Quads are giving me a BD+ error

All of them?

 

[Guy Robinson]

Yes, The new Joni Quads are giving me a BD+ error

I copied all 4 using DVDFAB. I will try ripping them tomorrow with dvdae but I assume that they will work since the copy protection has been removed.It's going to take me awhile before I vote but on the first two, it's Dolby Atmos in the lead for For The Roses and Quad for Court and Spark. I'm not crazy about the Quad of FTR. The ATMOS is not perfect as well as I think the top end could be taken down a bit. The Quad of Court and Spark beats the Atmos as I think that the piano and vocals for instance are clearer. I like the placement of everything better as well. Isn't it great that we have a choice though.

 

[par4ken]

I copied all 4 using DVDFAB.

DVD Audio Extractor + AnyDVD HD also works.

 

[Guy Robinson]

DVD Audio Extractor + AnyDVD HD also works.

I didn't know that Anydvd hd could make an exact copy of a Blu-Ray with the copy protection removed. I like to put the entire disc on my hard drives so that I have the menus etc intact. I will settle for an mkv file when that doesn't work for some reason.

 

[4-earredwonder]

Mine arrived yesterday, but no sighting of my Doors Standalone Blu-ray, which was supposed to be released 5 days ago. Has anyone received theirs?

Both my Doors Greatest Hits and Fleetwood Mac RUMOURS arrived today. Listening session tonight! BTW, I'm in New York [suburbs]!

 

[BPWingN]

RUMOURS and DOORS HITS arrived today. No additional fees.
Will listen later as my Canucks are playing now.

 

[Guy Robinson]

Does anyone know how to make a Marantz AVR behave like this (duplicate the surrounds in the rears) with all four channel recordings? I like the way it sounded with the rears playing as well as the surrounds. In the case of For The Roses, it added just the right sense of space to the rear soundstage.

My Yamaha plays 7.1 all the time for both 4.x and 5.x streams without me doing anything. The back speakers are duplicates of the surrounds and play at the same level. To me this sounds way better than without the extra speakers.

 

[Guy Robinson]

I copied all 4 using DVDFAB. I will try ripping them tomorrow with dvdae but I assume that they will work since the copy protection has been removed.

DVDAE works fine when ripping from the copy where the protection has been removed by DVDFAB. I was able to rip everything on all 4 discs. Now for the laborious and time consuming task of tweaking things to my liking.

 

[Wildgift]

All of them?

Yup

 

[Wildgift]

DVD Audio Extractor + AnyDVD HD also works.

Using a Mac tho...

 

[JediJoker]

DVDAE works fine when ripping from the copy where the protection has been removed by DVDFAB.

Or, by MakeMKV (using the "Backup" function).

 

[dabl]

I didn't know that Anydvd hd could make an exact copy of a Blu-Ray with the copy protection removed. I like to put the entire disc on my hard drives so that I have the menus etc intact. I will settle for an mkv file when that doesn't work for some reason.

Yep this is what I’ve done for all the Rhino Quadios so far, still waiting on the Joni box. AnyDVD HD can rip to either .iso or folder structure. There’s an option to leave the copy protection in place if you want that for whatever reason.

 

[Wildgift]

Or, by MakeMKV (using the "Backup" function).

I have been using makemkv using backup, then using DVDAE on my iMac. This is the first set where I got a BD+ error!

 

[Guy Robinson]

Yep this is what I’ve done for all the Rhino Quadios so far, still waiting on the Joni box. AnyDVD HD can rip to either .iso or folder structure. There’s an option to leave the copy protection in place if you want that for whatever reason.

It's all in what we are use to I guess.

 

[Wildgift]

It's all in what we are use to I guess.

Finally got it working. I tweaked a couple of settings and they are ripping!

 

[Petr Kropotkin]

Mine arrived today from Warner Music Canada in Toronto (hand delivered by Purolator), so none of those import fees from the US. I can understand making facsimiles of the original albums for optical disc packages, but trying to read the lyrics in the sleeves? To render an old British expression into polite terminology: if they expect us to read them, they're extracting the urine.

 

[humprof]

Just learned from a post on SHF that Rarewaves is taking pre-orders for $58. Release date: June 21st. Presumably it will soon show up at Amazon, ImportCDs, and the rest, too.
https://www.rarewaves.com/products/0603497827015-the-asylum-albums-1976-1980