HiRez Poll Lightfoot, Gordon - SUNDOWN [Blu-Ray Audio]

[Quadex]

“Seven Island Suite”. Such a quad gem!

This song gives me chills every time I’ve heard it over many decades. Such a GL masterpiece!! Nothing like it!!

 

[sf49erjohn]

I rated Sundown an 8. The quad mix is excellent from me. Its just not a disc I will listen to over and over. If I could rate it 8.5 I would. The quad mix here is excellent, but I'm not in love with all of the material.

 

[hafquark]

Sundown may be the best of Gord's eight Reprise records. Cold on the Shoulder and If You Could Read My Mind get high votes from a lot of Lightfoot fans, but I'm partial to this one. Thanks to the talents of producer Lenny Waronker and engineer Lee Herschberg, along with sumptuous string arrangements from Nick DeCaro, the production and sound are pristine.

Quad elevates the album to another level. It's pleasantly discrete while bringing the instruments into clearer definition -- horns, strings, steel string guitar, and of course Lightfoot's sonorous voice all benefit greatly from the surround mix.

Well, nothing in this world is perfect, but Sundown deserves a 10 nevertheless.

 

[ar surround]

I rated Sundown an 8. The quad mix is excellent from me. Its just not a disc I will listen to over and over. If I could rate it 8.5 I would. The quad mix here is excellent, but I'm not in love with all of the material.

An 8.5 for an album you don’t even like is a more remarkable score than the boat load of 10s from those of us who have always loved it. Just goes to show how excellent the sound quality and mix actually is.

(P.S. You might want to join us on the QQ NFL Tailgate thread since you are a Niners fan.)

 

[barfle]

Sundown may be the best of Gord's eight Reprise records. Cold on the Shoulder and If You Could Read My Mind get high votes from a lot of Lightfoot fans, but I'm partial to this one. Thanks to the talents of producer Lenny Waronker and engineer Lee Herschberg, along with sumptuous string arrangements from Nick DeCaro, the production and sound are pristine.

Quad elevates the album to another level. It's pleasantly discrete while bringing the instruments into clearer definition -- horns, strings, steel string guitar, and of course Lightfoot's sonorous voice all benefit greatly from the surround mix.

Well, nothing in this world is perfect, but Sundown deserves a 10 nevertheless.

Yeah, Gordon made a ton of great music that’s not on this album, but that doesn’t detract from it one bit. Without a doubt, it’s my favorite quadio so far.

 

[sf49erjohn]

An 8.5 for an album you don’t even like is a more remarkable score than the boat load of 10s from those of us who have always loved it. Just goes to show how excellent the sound quality and mix actually is.

(P.S. You might want to join us on the QQ NFL Tailgate thread since you are a Niners fan.)

Sorry I had to work during the game yesterday. Casinos never close. The 8.5 was more for the excellent sound quality, not the mix.

 

[Goona]

just received it. top notch sound 10 for me

 

[PissedOffPeoN]

I got a really strange problem with this disc.. it will not play on my magnetar 800 says unknown disc and my Oppo 203 plays it in dolby vision and all my connectors work.. other then that this is really good 10. Hope Rhino can get me a new disc that works. Disc had some gook on it wiped it off it was mint other then circle on inner circle didn't align.

 

[barfle]

I got a really strange problem with this disc.. it will not play on my magnetar 800 says unknown disc and my Oppo 203 plays it in dolby vision and all my connectors work.. other then that this is really good 10. Hope Rhino can get me a new disc that works. Disc had some gook on it wiped it off it was mint other then circle on inner circle didn't align.

There are times (usually when I’m having guests over) when my Oppo 105 reduses to play 1080 video from blu-rays. It works on DVDs, it works on 1080 stream, it works on USB sources, its own menus work, but the HDMI shuts off when I put in a blu-ray.

I fix it by pulling the plug overnight.

 

[hafquark]

There are times (usually when I’m having guests over) when my Oppo 105 reduses to play 1080 video from blu-rays. It works on DVDs, it works on 1080 stream, it works on USB sources, its own menus work, but the HDMI shuts off when I put in a blu-ray.

I fix it by pulling the plug overnight.

Could be the Blu-ray laser is failing or lens just needs to be cleaned.

 

[barfle]

Could be the Blu-ray laser is failing or lens just needs to be cleaned.

The audio is fine, so it’s definitely neither of those.

 

[hafquark]

The audio is fine, so it’s definitely neither of those.

I've never had that exact problem. Maybe a loose or bad HDMI cable?

 

[barfle]

I've never had that exact problem. Maybe a loose or bad HDMI cable?

No, it’s definitely CPU related. I’ve been in touch with Oppo service, and they seem to feel there’s something in my NAS that’s executing in the deck. Of course, EVERYTHING is on my NAS, since it’s the destination of my automatic backups, so trying to figure it out is a royal pain.

I’ve had it happen once after I had a corrupted thumb drive attached to it, after a couple of 3D movie plays (the 2D extras wouldn’t play, but the 3D movie and menus were fime), and then just randomly. So I just play something other than a blu-ray that evening, and when I’m done, I just pull the plug overnight. So far that works every time.

 

[califcab]

This was the album I wanted Rhino to do the most and it it did not disappoint. Even better sounding than I had hoped for. Easy 10.