Listening to now (In Surround!) - Volume 1

[fredblue]

Propaganda - Secret Wish (MCH SACD)

Long time ago since I hear this one. still like the music from my times back in the 80's.... Nice mix too

Think I've only played this once since I got it, need to give it another spin this weekend! Thanks for the reminder

 

[Ranasakawa]

Quatermas DVD
Interesting album, 5.1 mix is nice

 

[Ranasakawa]

Star Wars BluRay is amazing !

 

[kap'n krunch]

Genesis-"Three sides live" DVD-V DTS 96/24 from "The Movie Box"; extra tracks- "One for the Vine" and "Fountain of Salmacis"...guess that these were the Multitracks they found from this...Nice, at least we got some of them...

 

[kap'n krunch]

Steven Wilson-TRTRTS DVD-V DTS 48/24...love this cheapo player, got it thru some "points" earned on my job(!!!)..plays all Regions and with an HDMI out!

 

[kap'n krunch]

Macca- The Macca Years- DVD-V- DTS (48/24?) Disc one...another one that has some great surround mixes...Well, what's wrong with that???

 

[kap'n krunch]

Then , some Queen-Greatest hits, disc One...pretty good mixes...even the upmix of "Spread your wings"...

and on to "Led Zeppelin", the Royal Albert Hall one from 1970...on the French gig "Tous en scene", digging the kid covering his/her ears during the gtr. solo in "Communication Breakdown" !

EDIT(One more...)
Taking advantage that the wife went to town this morning...
Sting- Ten Summoner's Tales DTS CD

 

[user 1679]

Blackfield - IV

 

[watsontr]

Temptations - All Directions. Wow!

I never tire of listening to Papa Was a Rolling Stone. The building intro is great. it takes just shy of four minutes before the vocal kicks in. Not to mention Do Your Thing as well. Not up to Isaac's version IMO but still pretty hot! Quad Rules!!

 

[Neil Palfreyman]

NP: Magenta "The Twenty Seven Club" :banana:

This is their first release in DTS 24/96k 5.1 and it sounds absolutely stunning! Staggeringly good songs, wonderfully performed and then crafted into a near perfect surround mix by Rob. Music in surround doesn't get much better than this! I play tested the 48k mix and thought it was pretty damned good but the 24/96 is blowing my socks off. Yes, it's *that* good.

 

[fredblue]

LAGQ - Latin (Hybrid M/C SACD).

Not sure how I feel about the arrangements of some of this stuff.. but the surround mix is almost dizzying! Its soooooo super discrete having each one of the 4 players in each of the 4 speakers.. at times its possibly too much/too discrete..!!!!

Essential for discrete-o-nuts I reckon! @:

 

[bmoura]

One of my favorites here. LAGQ tried a more ambient mix on a subsequent SACD and received complaints.
So their Guitar Heroes SACD returned an immersive surround mix - although not as immersive as LAGQ:Latin !

 

[fredblue]

One of my favorites here. LAGQ tried a more ambient mix on a subsequent SACD and received complaints.
So their Guitar Heroes SACD returned an immersive surround mix - although not as immersive as LAGQ:Latin !

Is that "Spin" where they tried the ambient approach? I see that SACD everywhere EL cheap-o!

I got the Guitar Heroes disc recently too, will give that a 1st "spin" presently.

 

[bmoura]

I think Spin is the one that is more traditionally recorded in Surround DSD/SACD.

Guitar Heroes is very good. But the mix isn't as intense as LAGQ: Latin.
You'll like it.

 

[Failed Muso]

Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out

As an Oldfield fan and a Fairlight user, this ticks plenty of my boxes

 

[watsontr]

As an Oldfield fan and a Fairlight user, this ticks plenty of my boxes ;-)

Fairlights ruled in the early eighties and I remember spending quite a good deal of time fooling around with them in Alberts Studios in Sydney. Not much to show for it for it these days but I still like the sounds it produced. To me they sounded very natural unlike later synths even if the sound you'd created resembled nothing in the real world. People tell me now that they lack in quality as the samples were limited bitrate but I can't hear that. Those sounds still sound good to me

 

[Failed Muso]

Fairlights ruled in the early eighties and I remember spending quite a good deal of time fooling around with them in Alberts Studios in Sydney. Not much to show for it for it these days but I still like the sounds it produced. To me they sounded very natural unlike later synths even if the sound you'd created resembled nothing in the real world. People tell me now that they lack in quality as the samples were limited bitrate but I can't hear that. Those sounds still sound good to me

They still rule today, in my humble opinion

Despite being 30+ years old, many artists still use them (those few that are left) such as Coldplay on their Viva La Vida album and Hans Zimmer used a Series III on his Inception soundtrack.

The beauty of the Fairlight was its organic 'digitalness', spawned mainly by the tricks and workarounds employed by its inventors to make up for the limitations of digital audio at that point in time. Nowadays, we might have huge bitrates and vast amounts of memory, but it doesn't equate to quality and character. A Fairlight CMI Series III can sample at 100KHz, a rate that many present day samplers still can't achieve The Fairlight sound is still sought after and whilst there are now some pretty decent sample libraries available, you simply can't beat the real thing. Sadly, with only 200-300 ever made in total, they are very rare beasts but Peter Vogel did release a 30th anniversary edition called the CMI 30 AX which uses modern technology in a retro case to bring the concept bang up to date. At $20,000 AUD, they're still not cheap, but I can tell you, it's worth every penny. If $20k is too much, you can always try Peter's iOS app

I'm currently restoring a Series III that previously belonged to Ian Stanley of Tears for Fears fame, amongst others. It's a very beautiful and magical thing I'm blogging about my efforts over here...

http://www.failedmuso.com/blog

 

[LizardKing]

Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out

As an Oldfield fan and a Fairlight user, this ticks plenty of my boxes

Nice Avatar....

 

[horndynamics]

Copland Billy the Kid (3 channel)

 

[Failed Muso]

Nice Avatar....

Thank you Part of my website redesign. I wanted to reference my multichannel love

And back on topic...

Currently listening to Mike Oldfield's 'Crises' 5.1