Listening to now (In Surround!) - Volume 1

[Dixie4]

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

That might be right up my street ! ? Will definitely check it out later.

 

[Neil Palfreyman]

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

Burning Shed have it too:

https://www.burningshed.com/store/noman/product/271/1117/

I would also recommend the follow up to this called "Schoolyard Ghosts" which also has a 5.1 mix on DVD

https://www.burningshed.com/store/noman/product/43/1087/

They both have DTS and 48k 24 bit MLP

 

[Neil Palfreyman]

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.

Just google Youtube No-Man and you'll get a link to a channel with several tracks off both albums (and others besides.) Enjoy.

 

[Dixie4]

Burning Shed have it too:

https://www.burningshed.com/store/noman/product/271/1117/

I would also recommend the follow up to this called "Schoolyard Ghosts" which also has a 5.1 mix on DVD

https://www.burningshed.com/store/noman/product/43/1087/

They both have DTS and 48k 24 bit MLP

Thank you very much for that, Neil. I hope I like them when I check them out, I want to get excited about something new....rather than listening to " the same old, same old "

 

[Dixie4]

Just google Youtube No-Man and you'll get a link to a channel with several tracks off both albums (and others besides.) Enjoy.

I'm often on YouTube, checking out things !!

 

[Neil Palfreyman]

Thank you very much for that, Neil. I hope I like them when I check them out, I want to get excited about something new....rather than listening to " the same old, same old "

You're very welcome - I feel much the same and have "discovered" so much exceptional surround in many different genres that I would never even have considered before spending time on QQ.

 

[fredblue]

I guess I should open my "no-man" DVD-A's (at last!).. I got both "Together We're Stranger" and "Schoolyard Ghosts" in HMV just before they went bust and haven't got round to opening them since!

 

[Robert van Diggele]

I know soemone who handles merch for Frost* - If you're interested I can ask if she knows if any are still available anywhere?

Hi Neil, sorry for not replying earlier, overlooked your reply. Yes, if you could ask her, that would be great. You can PM me. Thanks!

 

[Robert van Diggele]

I guess I should open my "no-man" DVD-A's (at last!).. I got both "Together We're Stranger" and "Schoolyard Ghosts" in HMV just before they went bust and haven't got round to opening them since!

You should As said by Neil, both albums are top notch. Music is great and the mix and fidelity are superb.

Together we're stranger is very good for laid back Sunday morning listening.

 

[Dixie4]

Roxy Music - Avalon.

I don't know whether it's me ?....but i'm sure my very expensive used copy skips, on track 2 ( The Space Between. ) ? Or is it a sort of repetitive scat type vocal....will listen again when disc has finished....

 

[Failed Muso]

Thank you very much for that, Neil. I hope I like them when I check them out, I want to get excited about something new....rather than listening to " the same old, same old "

Ditto this. I've just ordered 'Together We're Stranger' CD/DVD-A from Amazon for £5.99. I had a listen on Spotify and was sold halfway through the opening track. Steven Wilson and his sickeningly awesome talent should come with a health warning! LOL

 

[wavelength]

I've just ordered 'Together We're Stranger' CD/DVD-A from Amazon for £5.99.

Ah, that nullifies my suggestion in post #958. Early bird gets the worm.

 

[LizardKing]

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.

Truenorth from Schoolyard Ghosts is my favourite. Just love the development in the track... OK - you guys have made me do it - I'm going to have to play some no-man now...

 

[Neil Palfreyman]

Tonight will be spent mostly in the court of a certain red monarch.

 

[Scott M4]

Truenorth from Schoolyard Ghosts is my favourite. Just love the development in the track... OK - you guys have made me do it - I'm going to have to play some no-man now...

Agree - Truenorth is an outstanding track.

 

[user 1679]

Nickel Creek - This Side

 

[fredblue]

Gérard GRISEY - Le Noir de l’Etoile (Hybrid MultiCh SACD).


http://www.percussionsdestrasbourg.com/Gerard-GRISEY-Le-Noir-de-l-Etoile,149

ooh la bleedin la, this is UNBELIEVABLE..!!!! @:

you can get it here..

http://musique.fnac.com/a1583912/Gerard-Grisey-Le-noir-de-l-etoile-Super-Audio-CD-hybride-CD-album

may be not musically everyone's cuppa tea but from a surround p.o.v... Mind blowing.

 

[fredblue]

Gérard GRISEY - Le Noir de l’Etoile (Hybrid MultiCh SACD).


http://www.percussionsdestrasbourg.com/Gerard-GRISEY-Le-Noir-de-l-Etoile,149

ooh la bleedin la, this is UNBELIEVABLE..!!!! @:

you can get it here..

http://musique.fnac.com/a1583912/Gerard-Grisey-Le-noir-de-l-etoile-Super-Audio-CD-hybride-CD-album

may be not musically everyone's cuppa tea but from a surround p.o.v... Mind blowing.

oh and did I mention, you have to like DRUMS..!!

its as much about the silences and the beautiful sense of space left hanging around the musicians playing.. and when the instruments kick in, its just about as dramatic and powerful as you can get!

 

[fredblue]

All I Got - Al Jarreau (M/C SACD). Its not a Hybrid but it is smoooooooth.

another one I bought ages ago and not got round to playing properly until now..

fairly safe/sappy stuff by his standards.. but the mix.. oohhhhh my friends, this is fabulous!!!

all the prerequisites to that magic mix are here by the bucketload..!!

backing vox galore (ooh's, aah's, woo's etc) in the rears, together with triangle bashes, handclaps, tambourine beats.

The sensation the "Side" information (i.e. stereo imaging between front left and rear left)
this surround mix creates is just.. extraordinarily good..!! quite possibly the best wraparound "side" effect I've ever heard from a non-Classical disc (or one that wasn't a Demonstration/Test disc specifically testing or showing that off!)

oh and your sub will get an almighty workout! Wowzers! My REL's going like the clappers..!! @:

 

[fredblue]

Breezin' - George Benson (DVD-A).

Transformed by simply moving my rear speakers further away, or rather further behind my sweet spot/pref'd listening position.

I always felt this was mixed too 'wet' with too much duplicated reverb of the front L & R in the rears.. well, whaddyaknow, moving the rears further away from my ears has improved things enormously!

I suspect this was mixed for huge American living rooms (lounges?) rather than tiny London flats (apartments!).. or the studio Al Schmitt mixed it in was massive with the rears far away from their position at the desk..!? or the studio was just seriously acoustically over-damp(en)ed with no reverb or life of its own at all.. !?!? I guess that's what all the best mixing folks strive for?? "neutral"..?

anyway, bottom line = I need a bigger room to fully take you in George..!! :yikes ....but still I like you a lot more in surround when I move your reverbed rears away from me!