Listening to Now (In Surround) - Volume 2

[edisonbaggins]

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The Moody Blues: On the Threshold of a Dream

I def. need to check out more Moodys...

 

[Clement]

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Hoff Ensemble Quiet Winter Night

shh . . . peaceful

 

[Lute]

I def. need to check out more Moodys...

Definitely worth acquiring. They get a spin when I’m in the mood (pun intended )

 

[edisonbaggins]

Definitely worth acquiring. They get a spin when I’m in the mood (pun intended )

Has anybody ranked the SACDs? I have DoFP. Would be nice to know the next best, if there's any consensus.

 

[Audiowannabee]

Ive the dvd of dofp on the threshhold is my favourite but there all damn good sacds

Isolc not great...rest very worthy

 

[mandrix]

Joe Satriani - The Satch Tapes, specifically Joes sweetest song "Always with me, Always with you"

 

[Beefalo]

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The Moody Blues: On the Threshold of a Dream

That's a beautiful picture....

 

[mandrix]

Has anybody ranked the SACDs? I have DoFP. Would be nice to know the next best, if there's any consensus.

My rank of the top three would be 1.DOFP, 2.OTTOAD, 3.AQOB ....although 2 & 3 are practically interchangeable for me.
I will admit in my youth I was very enamored of AQOB and went through a bunch of 8 tracks in my portable players.
The rest I'm not nearly as fond of. Jeez I've been listening to these guys 50 years or so. Don't it make you feel small?

 

[Lute]

Has anybody ranked the SACDs? I have DoFP. Would be nice to know the next best, if there's any consensus.

You might have checked already but the QQ poll ranks them:
1. To Our Children’s Children’s Children
2. On the Threshold of a Dream
3. A Question of Balance
4. Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
5. Days of Future Passed
6. Seventh Sojourn

Knowing how much you like rock, I'd suggest trying A Question of Balance next. The opening track "Question" is worth the price of admission alone. The rest of the songs are also good.

Now listening to...

 

[Hamilton59]

Good Morning People!
Today felt like a David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust kind of day...

 

[Lute]

America : Homecoming (SACD)

 

[mandrix]

My rank of the top three would be 1.DOFP, 2.OTTOAD, 3.AQOB ....although 2 & 3 are practically interchangeable for me.
I will admit in my youth I was very enamored of AQOB and went through a bunch of 8 tracks in my portable players.
The rest I'm not nearly as fond of. Jeez I've been listening to these guys 50 years or so. Don't it make you feel small?

Well I got this wrong. In my youth I was very enamored of OTTOAD. dadburned acronyms. lol.

 

[Drlbizzle]

Rachmaninoff - Valery Gergiev w/ LSO - Symphonies 1-3 - Symphonic Dances SACD/Blu-Ray Audio

 

[4-earredwonder]

Rachmaninoff - Valery Gergiev w/ LSO - Symphonies 1-3 - Symphonic Dances SACD/Blu-Ray Audio

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Thanks for the heads up. Just ordered a copy. Three 5.0 SACDs and 1 BD~A 24/192 in 5.1 for under $25 delivered. Great Deal. Recorded in DSD!

 

[Drlbizzle]

Thanks for the heads up. Just ordered a copy. Three 5.0 SACDs and 1 BD~A in 5.1 for under $25 delivered. Great Deal. Recorded in DSD!

The Blu-Ray also contains stereo mp3, FLAC and DSD versions that you can copy from the disc using a BDlive networking feature. Which is amazing considering how the cheap the whole set it.

 

[beerking]

Ayreon
Into The Electric Castle
Just Superb
https://www.discogs.com/Ayreon-Into-The-Electric-Castle-A-Space-Opera/release/12743301
Spent the last week getting my ripped music sorted.
At last, it's all on one 8TB External Hard Drive (Yes I really Do need that much space!!)
And backed up on another 8TB Hard Drive (Different Manufacturer, just In case)

 

[Beefalo]

 

[JanBakker]

 

[ar surround]

Has anybody ranked the SACDs? I have DoFP. Would be nice to know the next best, if there's any consensus.

You might have checked already but the QQ poll ranks them:
1. To Our Children’s Children’s Children
2. On the Threshold of a Dream
3. A Question of Balance
4. Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
5. Days of Future Passed
6. Seventh Sojourn

Knowing how much you like rock, I'd suggest trying A Question of Balance next. The opening track "Question" is worth the price of admission alone. The rest of the songs are also good...

My two cents on a sound-quality-improvement scale:

1. On the Threshold of a Dream
(Lovely to See You in quad smokes the stereo. The dynamic range on Never Comes the Day in quad is terrific. Ditto on To Share Our Love. Have You Heard can only come across as intended when heard in quad. The list goes on and on...)
2. To Our Children's Children's Children
(Generally, the quality is miles above the stereo version. Arguably, the biggest sound quality improvement of the lot.)
3. A Question of Balance
(The voices on Minstrel's Song come across much better in quad than in stereo. The quad version of this tutti-fruity song is a bit different than the stereo...more Gaelic sounding. I hated it in stereo, but love the quad. A couple of songs could use some serious bass boost, but the song Question in both quad and stereo faked to 7.1 kicks ass.)
4. Seventh Sojourn (They screwed up the balance of certain components of the quad on Pinder's opening track and I'm Just A Singer. But generally, the highs are much better defined than on the stereo...You and Me and For My Lady come to mind. I love to crank You and Me.)
5. Every Good Boy Deserve Favour (The sound quality of this quad is closest to the stereo version...a bit muddy; but still an improvement given it's surround.)
5. Days of Future Passed (Tie) (Some songs can use some major tweeking of the rears, especially Nights in White Satin. They probably didn't have a lot to work with when they made this quad, otherwise they would have gone to town with it.)

All six quad albums are very much worth owning and they all smoke the 5.1 of ISOTLC. The stereo SACD of ISOTLC sounds great when the Surround Master has at it, however I prefer Jakko's hi-res stereo remix.

 

[Beefalo]

I give it a 7. But then I enjoy alot of 7's.
"I love you like Sin but I won't be your Pigeon"