Listening to Now (In Surround) - Volume 2

[Mesozoic Mike]

Sgt Pepper. 2017 bluray. Controversial surround mix, but the music .....

 

[4-earredwonder]

@dabl
Here you go:

Live at the Artists Den, Superunknown, Badmotorfinger, Temple of the Dog and Reanimation (Linkin Park) all reviewed.

Wonderful overview, Mike. Incidentially, Soundgarden Live at the Artists Den just arrived in the mail today. Will definitely give it a spin soon.

 

[beerking]

Kiama - Sign of IV 5.1 DTS DVDV

This is one seriously underrated album Sven. After your heads up, I looked about for a decent copy (not easy!!)
What a complete joy the album is.
Highly recommend it folks.

Arrived today

This one:
https://www.discogs.com/Kiama-Sign-Of-IV/release/11881512

 

[beerking]

And now for something completely different:

James Carney
Green-Wood

This one:
https://www.discogs.com/James-Carney-Group-Green-Wood/release/2095322
Also arrived today

This is one cool, contemporary jazz album.
And very discrete

In fact an excellent surround album.

 

[fizzywiggs41]

More from this mornings delivery:

I gotta pay more attention.

I did not notice there were more DV QUADS ????..........Guess Who-American Woman/Share The Land ......and two by Paul Revere and the Raiders .

WOW !!!!!

 

[svengaleekie]

I gotta pay more attention.

I did not notice there were more DV QUADS ????..........Guess Who-American Woman/Share The Land ......and two by Paul Revere and the Raiders .

WOW !!!!!

Yes there are seven albums in that picture, I've listened to them all now and ripped the SACDs, I made the mistake of putting the Quad SACD into my Sony
UBP-X800 player and thought "doesn't seem very surround" then remembered the Sony doesn't play Quad! shame on you Sony, you'd have thought they would have had a firmware update to correct this by now, but no. So into the Oppo, ah there it is "yes thats Quad" And the John Fogerty what fantastic discrete sound that is not just audience but instruments too, but the video? well who needs video when the sound is so good.

 

[Clement]

Yes there are seven albums in that picture, I've listened to them all now and ripped the SACDs, I made the mistake of putting the Quad SACD into my Sony
UBP-X800 player and thought "doesn't seem very surround" then remembered the Sony doesn't play Quad! shame on you Sony, you'd have thought they would have had a firmware update to correct this by now, but no. So into the Oppo, ah there it is "yes thats Quad" And the John Fogerty what fantastic discrete sound that is not just audience but instruments too, but the video? well who needs video when the sound is so good.

Wait! I have a Sony UBP-X800, and I'm listening to The Best of The Guess Who Volume II as I type. Discrete sounds coming out of FL, FR, RL, RR; nothing from the center and my sub is off! Not sure what's going on, but the disc and the mix sound great on my system: my receiver is also Sony--STRDN 1080

 

[edisonbaggins]

Wait! I have a Sony UBP-X800, and I'm listening to The Best of The Guess Who Volume II as I type. Discrete sounds coming out of FL, FR, RL, RR; nothing from the center and my sub is off! Not sure what's going on, but the disc and the mix sound great on my system: my receiver is also Sony--STRDN 1080

That might mean D-V quads are mastered with a silent center, silent LFE or both. Does your receiver tell you which channels are active from the source? If so, sometimes quad SACDs or blu-rays look like 5.0 or 5.1.

 

[sjcorne]

That might mean D-V quads are mastered with a silent center, silent LFE or both.

Yep, the D-V discs all have silent center and sub channels. The AF quad discs were 5.0, with an empty center and no sub.

I’m pretty sure the SACD spec does not support direct 4.0.

 

[J. PUPSTER]

Yes there are seven albums in that picture, I've listened to them all now and ripped the SACDs, I made the mistake of putting the Quad SACD into my Sony
UBP-X800 player and thought "doesn't seem very surround" then remembered the Sony doesn't play Quad! shame on you Sony, you'd have thought they would have had a firmware update to correct this by now, but no. So into the Oppo, ah there it is "yes thats Quad" And the John Fogerty what fantastic discrete sound that is not just audience but instruments too, but the video? well who needs video when the sound is so good.

not sure but check out this first post/thread:
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/sony-ubp-x800-dsd-question.713532/

 

[svengaleekie]

not sure but check out this first post/thread:
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/sony-ubp-x800-dsd-question.713532/

Thanks for that, I read through the SH forum thread, now I thought I'd tried all the settings in the past with no luck, but just changed one setting and I'm now playing American Woman in quad as it should be.
Edit: applies to both SACDs and ripped .dsf files, both playing fine now. the setting was: DSD Output Mode - Off

 

[edisonbaggins]

R.E.M. Out of Time
25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Blu-ray DTS HD Master 5.1

 

[4-earredwonder]

And now for something completely different:

James Carney
Green-Wood

This one:
https://www.discogs.com/James-Carney-Group-Green-Wood/release/2095322
Also arrived today

This is one cool, contemporary jazz album.
And very discrete

In fact an excellent surround album.

IMO, BK, ALL those Songline mch SACDs are unique in their own individual way. Although some are 'out there' avant garde, most are melodic jazz beauties. I have them ALL!

 

[kap'n krunch]

Goin back to
Beck
Sea Change
DVD-A

Definitely a MUST have disc...

 

[Frogmort]

Grover - Winelight

 

[Mesozoic Mike]

Lowell Fulson : Think Twice Before You Speak SACD

 

[Clement]

Where there's smoke, . . .

. . . there's FIRE!
(and a review for you, especially)
Mad props to a comrade from QQ who sent this gift to me
Stay Surrounded, if you get my drift . . . just B

 

[fizzywiggs41]

Two..........Nite


Jethro Tull - War Child..........the quad mix , and it's still one of my favourite quad mixes........including my olde CD-4 pressing,
bit of an adventurous one by Robin Black and Ian.

 

[fizzywiggs41]

Also........


Hancock. ......the "Herb"


Sextant. SACD

 

[fizzywiggs41]

Aaaaaaaaaaand,




Argent-In Deep. SQ LP



I don't find any fault with this quad mix, fwiw.