Listening to now (In Surround!) - Volume 1

[Clint Eastwood]

Time for a little change of pace today; music from another time FRANK SINATRA AT THE SANDS WITH COUNT BASIE DVD-Audio

 

[Brutus63]

How is that mix? Would like some quad frank...

 

[Clint Eastwood]

How is that mix? Would like some quad frank...

For the time period and being live it's quite good..it's like a time capsule and puts you in the club with Frank and the audience...he tells jokes and has fun with the crowd...vocals are crystal clear...a tiny amount of brightness when the orchestra cranks it up(which isn't that often)...but it's not enough to really bother you...it's 1966..the prices on a used disc have fallen considerably HERE the center channel is not a factor in this one, more like a real quad recording..

Let me add this...what I love the most about this period(60's)and Sinatra was his upbeat style...this recording is more an event than a concert..I have another hi rez disc by Sinatra(Where Are You SACD)and it's pretty depressing...the cry in your beer type of music...there was a 1,000 people jammed into the Sands nightly to hear Frank from 1/26/66-2/01/66 and this disc was comprised of songs from each of those nights...

 

[Brutus63]

Hmmmmmm
, Tanx

 

[wavelength]

Hmmmmmm
, Tanx

There is also the QQ Hi-Rez Poll:
https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/forums/showthread.php?4349-Sinatra-Frank-AT-THE-SANDS-DVD-A

 

[wheeler98]

The best of The Sugarhill Gang dvd-audio....HEY...it's fun and my place needed to be dusted with a low frequency tsunami wave...

R

 

[wheeler98]

Cell One....Poet Name Life on dvd-audio.....I figured it was time to give this series of discs a proper listen through the updated system. I bought these in the early days when I was running Klipschs through an Onkyo set-up. Let's just say its a little more lively with the totems, B&Ws, Arcam and Oppo 105..

 

[HomerJAU]

Very cool indeed Garry!

I've never understood why the labels didn't do just this back in the day and release compilations for artists where they'd remixed all or virtually all of their back catalogue in Hi-Res/surround..

To be fair, Universal did the Marvin Gaye compilation (very cool.. I love it.. it could've been more comprehensive though I suspect its brevity due to combination of disc storage space with its DTS CD origins, as well as possibility of unavailable multitracks?).. and there were The Carpenters, The Police, Seal, Era, R.E.M., Lee Ann Womack, Gloria Estefan, Al Green surround compilations too of course.. and the Rory Gallagher comp, fwiw..

..just think, we could have had hits compilations of artists as diverse (and popular) as Genesis, Bjork, The Moodies, Talking Heads, The Doors, Depeche Mode..

..and if the labels had done a proper job of the surround catalogues of Dylan, Elton, Queen, Bowie, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, The Doobies, Eagles, Chicago, Foreigner, Grateful Dead, Clapton, James Taylor, Roxy Music, Bon Jovi, Rush - can you imagine surround compilations by those guys!?

Agree totally Adam. Maybe Audio Fidelity would consider a surround compilation album from one of the artists listed!

I might do my own for Depeche Mode next. I have thought about doing one for Porcupine Tree but there's never been any official compilation released and I like their music so much I'm not sure I can whittle a track list down to a single album.

I've also been looking at the Official QQ "What's your Go-To Surround Demo Quality SACD/DVD-A" threads here thinking I'd like to make a compilation of the great demo tracks mentioned!

 

[DocCasualty]

Bob Marley Legend BDA.

My subwoofer bit the dust last week. Purchased an SVS PB-2000 which should arrive tomorrow. Planning on using "Exodus" for my subwoofer "crawl". I'm pumped as I'm am expecting a major leap forward from the Paradigm PDR-10 that it's replacing.

 

[astark]

I think you will be very happy with the sub upgrade and enjoy your legend and others all the more when it gets here.

 

[DocCasualty]

I think you will be very happy with the sub upgrade and enjoy your legend and others all the more when it gets here.

 

[bigbillquad]

Hi ALL.
I have been going over some of my Quad lps I came across this lp and gave it a good listen, and came to the conclusion that this lp could be classed as a Quad lp that is a lp you can use as a Show Case for the QS system it has exhalent Quad separation front to back side to side in the back & front the instruments are layered well mixed exhalent listen.
Bill...

 

[LizardKing]

Hi ALL.
I have been going over some of my Quad lps I came across this lp and gave it a good listen, and came to the conclusion that this lp could be classed as a Quad lp that is a lp you can use as a Show Case for the QS system it has exhalent Quad separation front to back side to side in the back & front the instruments are layered well mixed exhalent listen.
Bill...


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I have that one too!

Mine (Aussie pressing) doesn't have the QS logo ..

 

[bigbillquad]

O you noticed, I put it there I am in the process of recording my Quad Lp`s to CD if there is no reverence of the type of matrix I put it on the CD for my purpose of identification.
Bill....

 

[rusinurbe]

Just listened to
Gregg Allman - All My Friends Blu ray (typical Live mix crowd in the rears and Band up front)

Now listening to the Schenier mix of 461 Ocean Boulevard (Blu ray)

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Jethro Tull Benefit

 

[Which_One_Is_Pink]

Been in a Tully mood today so...Benefit, TaaB, A Passion Play, Ian's Homo Erraticus. also would really like to have Stand Up to get the SW 5.1 treatment because my Stand Up MFSL Ultradisc sounds really good through my Onkyo via PLIIx, next stop Steven Wilsonville.

 

[rusinurbe]

Eric Baumgartner - The Panda Tapes - Free download - great stuff
and
Steven Wilson - Temporal - surround download also free on the same re-found memory stick

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Doobie Brothers-The Captain and Me

 

[Clint Eastwood]

After seeing Adam's post about Queen's A Night At The Opera I had to listen to it...it's the 2002 version..