Listening to now (In Surround!) - Volume 1

[bmoura]

On the Surround Master, four QSound Encoded albums:

• Sting - The Soul Cages [QSound Encoded] (A&M 75021 6405 2)
• Janet Jackson - Design of a Decade: Greatest Hits 1986-1996 [QSound Encoded] (A&M 31454 0399 2)
• Luther Vandross - Power of Love [QSound Encoded] (Epic EK 85380)
• Apollo 13 - Music from the Motion Picture [QSound Encoded] (MCA Soundtrack MCAD-11241)

 

[timbre4]

Dream Theater 2013 DVD-A

 

[bmoura]

Enjoying through the Surround Master:

• The Pink Panther, Moon River, Baby Elephant Walk & Other Hits - Henry Mancini & His Orchestra [Dolby Surround] (RCA Victor 07863 55938 2)

 

[kap'n krunch]

Bowie- Heathen

...takin' a tip from the Gemini spacecraft....

 

[kap'n krunch]

-PT- FOABP DTS DVD-V
-Tomita- "Snowflakes are dancing"(most recent SACD release) ...actually I ripped this on 96/24 into Logic and stored the radi*active SACDs downstairs in the storage room...this way , I added some "Harmonic Exciter" above 10K and did some shelving dip at 80Hz dip EQ and some parametric dips at 450 and 1160 Hz, with a bit of shelving boost at 10 K....

EDIT,
and now going for "The Planets" SACD (refer to the Debussy ripping procedure above sans any processing)

 

[kap'n krunch]

Herbie Hancock- "Thrust" from SQ LP 96/24 conversion I did when my PC was still alive - playing thru Logic...

 

[ctc4001]

Yes: Fragile Original 1st pressing! nice and quiet. It's nice to listen to a record without noise isn't it.

 

[user 1679]

Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out

 

[chucky3042]

Hi All

try "Ring them bells" - Liza with a Z - Live, via the Surround Master.

Regards

Chucky

 

[bmoura]

Now playing with the Surround Master:

• Poncho Sanchez - A Night at Kimball's East [Dolby Surround] (Concord Picante CCD-4472)

 

[Cheezmo]

Metamorphosis - Meganta.

Can't thank this forum enough to facilitating my discovery of Magenta. Wonderful group and surround mixes.

 

[bmoura]

On the Surround Master from a QSound encoded concert CD:

• Paul McCartney - Paul Is Live [QSound Encoded] (Capital CDP 7243 8 27704 2 8)

 

[inquadwetrust]

America - Homecoming DVDA

I'm using a Macbook Pro on OS 10.6.8 with Decibel and a HDMI cable going from the display port to my Onkyo receiver. I ripped the DVDA to multichannel FLAC and it sounds great. I'm quite surprised - other than the pain of manually entering the track titles this seems like a viable solution. Lion users are out of luck though. Decibel on Snow Leopard allows sample rate matching so whether it's the stereo rip at 192/24 or surround at 96/24 theres no degradation. Apple changed all that with Lion unfortunately - maxing the bitrate at 96/24. This DVDA is particular naked in it's sound and as such I'm not hearing any artifacting or weirdness. It just sounds rich and full - just like the DVDA.

 

[IMachine]

Muse - The Resistance.
Wonderful 5.1 mix with fat basses.:banana:

 

[bmoura]

Two Telarc Surround Sound CDs recorded with the Spatializer system:

• The Memphis Horns - with William Bell, Robert Cray, Isaac Hayes, Etta James, Leon Russell, Mavis Staples & Bobby Womack [Spatializer Encoded] (Telarc CD-83344]
• Moody's Party: Live at the Blue Note - James Moody Quartet, Bill Cosby, Roy Ayers, Chris Porter, Arturo Sandoval, Grover Washington Jr. [Spatializer Encoded] (Telarc CD-83382)

 

[Quad Linda]

I don't remember seeing these. I spent an afternoon with James Moody at the airport in Orlando. At the time, he was listening in heavy rotation to Chick Corea and the Brecker Brothers. James was a very gentle soul.

 

[fredblue]

The Memphis Horns disc is terrific, Linda! Etta James, Bobby Womack, William Bell, Mavis Staples.. its a veritable who's who! you have to pick it up! added bonus its great thru PLII, I can only imagine how good it is thru the Surround Master!

 

[IMachine]

Now BT - Monster DTS.

 

[LizardKing]

Branko - My World Electric - SACD
Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties - SQ Vinyl -> SQ Final -> DVD-A

 

[ctc4001]

LizardKing that's one of my favorite Blue ôyster Cult LP's