Listening to Now (In Surround) - Volume 2

[Clement]

moving on to a cherished disc for which i patiently waited over a year to acquire!

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Four Great Toccatas and Fugues--The Four Antiphonal Organs Of The Cathedral Of Freiburg Played Simultaneously By E. Power Biggs
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[edisonbaggins]

moving on to a cherished disc for which i patiently waited over a year to acquire!
View attachment 54470 Johann Sebastian Bach: The Four Great Toccatas and Fugues--The Four Antiphonal Organs Of The Cathedral Of Freiburg Played Simultaneously By E. Power Biggs
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Year on no, I don't recall ever seeing it listed for <$100.
How is it?!

 

[Clement]

Year on no, I don't recall ever seeing it listed for <$100.
How is it?!

oh dear! i must have snapped it up before you even realized it was available--for a mere $49.99! it's a house shaker sub-woofer quaker of a mix! makes me wanna add a second sub. this one is best played L O U D (ly)

 

[bgf1973]

 

[fredblue]

moving on to a cherished disc for which i patiently waited over a year to acquire!
View attachment 54470 Johann Sebastian Bach: The Four Great Toccatas and Fugues--The Four Antiphonal Organs Of The Cathedral Of Freiburg Played Simultaneously By E. Power Biggs
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oh how i'd dearly love to know if this was one of ye olde Masterworks Quads that was buggered about with for Sony SACD release like all the others...

 

[fredblue]

i'm referring to this kind of thing Clement

https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/fo...orchestra-mq-maq-32132-q8-vs-sony-sacd.25590/

 

[Clement]

i'm referring to this kind of thing Clement

https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/fo...orchestra-mq-maq-32132-q8-vs-sony-sacd.25590/

Ah! I see! But you own, the disc, no? Do you believe it was buggered about based on what you hear on your sacd?

 

[Clement]

So. Damn. Hot. i put on the coolest thing i own

Frank Sinatra Sinatra at the Sands
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[fredblue]

Ah! I see! But you own, the disc, no? Do you believe it was buggered about based on what you hear on your sacd?

oh yes, i have the Sony Single Layer MultiCh SACD but i don't have the Q8 or SQ LP so i have no original Quad point of reference

 

[Sonik Wiz]

great stuff...all the way from Japan taking a detour thru Russia...

I

great stuff...all the way from Japan taking a detour thru Russia...

I'm very interested. How would you describe the music & surround quality?

 

[fredblue]

there were a number of Hiromi MultiCh SACDs, its been a while since i played them and i'm not sure i ever got them all but of the ones i did pick up (5?) i remember them being uniformly excellent in Surround Sound

 

[kap'n krunch]

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I'm very interested. How would you describe the music & surround quality?

Music wise, Hiromi is a force of nature... ANYONE who can play a duet with Chick Corea and not being able to tell them apart must be UP THERE!!!!

...yeah , she is a Genius...
The MCH is NOT a radically discrete mix but it is pretty satisfactory... I mean, whatever can be done with piano/synth, Guitar, bass and drums is very well done!

 

[Clement]

still trying to stay cool, and i can't think of anything cooler than a release with TWO versions of "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed"

The Allman Brothers Band ‎Idlewild South 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition
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[Clement]

i, too, own all five Hiromi multichannel releases, and i enjoy them all. for what it's worth, here are the allmusic reviews:
https://www.allmusic.com/album/another-mind-mw0000027153https://www.allmusic.com/album/brain-mw0000220366https://www.allmusic.com/album/spiral-mw0000520002https://www.allmusic.com/album/time-control-mw0000738431https://www.allmusic.com/album/beyond-standard-mw0000787938

 

[Audiowannabee]

still trying to stay cool, and i can't think of anything cooler than a release with TWO versions of "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed"
View attachment 54482 The Allman Brothers Band ‎Idlewild South 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition
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Sounds like a good one for tonight...I'll join ya

 

[Clement]

still HOT and MUGGY here, so i've decided to fight FIRE with

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[Clement]

m o r eo f i r e !

Fire Garden Far and Near
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[edisonbaggins]

Moya Brennan ~ Two Horizons
SACD 5.1

Man, was this hard to find for under $30!

 

[Clement]

from Fire Garden i'm back to

Soundgarden Superunknown
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[Clement]

from "Black Hole Sun" to "Here Comes the Sun"

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