Listening to now (In Surround!) - Volume 1

[fredblue]

Hotel "Bloody" California! (DVD-A)

I never play this one.. but you know what, it's more impressive a surround mix and much more enjoyable than I remember! Kooky! @:

 

[Dixie4]

Hotel "Bloody" California! (DVD-A)

I never play this one.. but you know what, it's more impressive a surround mix and much more enjoyable than I remember! Kooky! @:

...."it's such a lovely place. it's such a lovely place"

( " They're creepy & they're kooky. Mysterious & spooky " )

 

[fredblue]

The Carpenters - Singles 1969-1981 (Hybrid MultiCh SACD).

Another one I hardly ever play.. and despite its sonic shortcomings (compression.. ick..), the mix is really lovely and lush, the music utterly timeless.. and Karen's voice so achingly beautiful and haunting all at the same time.

My baby sister's getting married tomorrow.. and I just felt like indulging in a bit of poppy melancholia.. I guess I should see it less as losing my sister and more gaining a brother-in-Law...

Sigh.

 

[Dixie4]

The Carpenters - Singles 1969-1981 (Hybrid MultiCh SACD).

Another one I hardly ever play.. and despite its sonic shortcomings (compression.. ick..), the mix is really lovely and lush, the music utterly timeless.. and Karen's voice so achingly beautiful and haunting all at the same time.

My baby sister's getting married tomorrow.. and I just felt like indulging in a bit of poppy melancholia.. I guess I should see it less as losing my sister and more gaining a brother-in-Law...

Sigh.

No one sounds like Karen ! ( One of my favourite SACD's )

Hope it's a lovely day, in every way, for your baby Sis !

 

[fredblue]

No one sounds like Karen ! ( One of my favourite SACD's )

Hope it's a lovely day, in every way, for your baby Sis !

Thanks matey, you're the best

 

[Dixie4]

Thanks matey, you're the best

The weather should be good for the day......just as i'm listening to something summery....." Seaside Rendezvous " in Queenie Surround !!

 

[Neil Palfreyman]

After giving The Who's "Tommy" SACD a spin I'm now listening to a freshly downloaded .flac from B&W with a hi-res 5.1 version of Tubular Bells on it. Very nice it is too!

 

[user 1679]

no-man - together we're stranger

 

[Cibola]

Tipper; Surrounded; 5.1 MLP 96k 24b DualDisc: Currently "Just As The Sun Went Down"; This is good stuff, especially if you have a baby in the house and the sun's gone down.

 

[user 1679]

Porcupine Tree - The Incident

I don't get why some are so down on this album now - I still like it a lot....in some ways more than Blank Planet. I like Blank Planet a lot but prefer the live versions over the studio but with The Incident the studio version is tops.

 

[Cibola]

Porcupine Tree - The Incident

I don't get why some are so down on this album now - I still like it a lot....

Agreed. It must come down to time and taste,

 

[Neil Palfreyman]

no-man - together we're stranger

That's an absolutely superb album, even more so in surround. I have every single No-man album and this is my favourite by a country mile. Must get round to reviewing it sometime soon, but t will be a 10 for sure.

 

[wavelength]

no-man - together we're stranger

Never really warmed up to that one. I'll have to give it a listen now that I have the Oppo 105. Everything sounds better on that puppy.

 

[Neil Palfreyman]

Never really warmed up to that one. I'll have to give it a listen now that I have the Oppo 105. Everything sounds better on that puppy.

The surround isn't in your face - it's subtle, but discrete and really accentuates the music, which on the whole I find extremely laid back, sad and melancholy but in a very beautiful way. The track "Back When You Were Beautiful" is, imho, the best thing No-man have ever written.

 

[wavelength]

The surround isn't in your face - it's subtle, but discrete and really accentuates the music, which on the whole I find extremely laid back, sad and melancholy but in a very beautiful way. The track "Back When You Were Beautiful" is, imho, the best thing No-man have ever written.

Right! I remember "Back When You Were Beautiful". That is a great, great song.

 

[Dixie4]

The surround isn't in your face - it's subtle, but discrete and really accentuates the music, which on the whole I find extremely laid back, sad and melancholy but in a very beautiful way. The track "Back When You Were Beautiful" is, imho, the best thing No-man have ever written.

I've never heard of No Man ? Is the disc freely available, or one of those rare hard to find one's ?

 

[wavelength]

I've never heard of No Man ? Is the disc freely available, or one of those rare hard to find one's ?

You can get it from Amazon UK: (9 pounds.)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Together-We...8-1&keywords=no-man+-+together+we're+stranger

 

[wavelength]

Actually even cheaper from amazon marketplace - 5.99 pounds.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B00180OT7G/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new

 

[Dixie4]

You can get it from Amazon UK: (9 pounds.)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Together-We...8-1&keywords=no-man+-+together+we're+stranger

Thank you for that. I didn't know it was SW. Going by descriptions, is it lesser of a Prog Rock album ? Will have to listen to some music samples on the internet later.

 

[wavelength]

Thank you for that. I didn't know it was SW. Going by descriptions, is it lesser of a Prog Rock album ? Will have to listen to some music samples on the internet later.

What Neil said. There's no heavy hard stuff (as far as I recall). Just spacey, mellow, sometimes melancholy type music.