Listening to Now (In Surround) - Volume 2

[ji eff]

Beck - Sea Change
Re-calibrated system after moving speakers
Reference disc sounds better than ever!

Excellent album isn't it !? :music

Glad to hear you're enjoying your new setup!

 

[seilerbird]

Listening now to Joe Satriani Strange Beautiful Music. I kept looking at Janbakker avatar and just had to pull out this awesome multichannel SACD.

My all time favorite album. Got a ticket to see him live in March.

 

[JanBakker]

My first upmix with SpecWeb 1.0 (standard settings, didn't have/make time to experiment), sounds good to me. I noticed that when you do a comparison with the original stereo files you have to turn up the volume a bit but that is no problem of course :51banana:

 

[keenly]

SpecWeb seems to be getting a lot of mileage from you !! :upthumb

My Pink Floyd albums never sounded that cool before !
:51banana:

Through SpecWeb, The Wall is pure MCH bliss.. I also never thought I'd have the chance to listen to Animals that way..

I'll have to purchase the Live at Pompeï dvd to make a proper FLAC... I ripped the vhs to mp3 years ago, time for an upgrade!

Excuse my ignorance; what is this SpecWeb business?

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Excuse my ignorance; what is this SpecWeb business?

Check this out

 

[keenly]

Check this out

I have DL'd it but now have no clue what to do?
bin
installspecweb
specwebguide

now what?

 

[JanBakker]

I have DL'd it but now have no clue what to do?
bin
installspecweb
specwebguide

now what?

Just doubleclick the Install_SpecWeb.bat file and it installs. when installed just drag a (lossless) file on the SpecWeb shortcut on your desktop and after SpecWeb starts hit enter for a default conversion.

 

[JanBakker]

Not their best but I always liked the bombastic sound of this one, now sounds even better after specweb conversion :banana:.

 

[fizzywiggs41]

I like to periodically choose from my collection, an artist's surround reportoire.

So yesterday nite, it was Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke.

I find I prefer the Ziggy dvd in dts over the Sacd, better fidelity.I don't have to crank my receiver's volume like with the Sacd.

He may be gone, but leaves us with an "EXCEPTIONAL MUSIC LEGACY" which will continue to extend his legacy !

 

[fizzywiggs41]

And......

 

[keenly]

Just doubleclick the Install_SpecWeb.bat file and it installs. when installed just drag a (lossless) file on the SpecWeb shortcut on your desktop and after SpecWeb starts hit enter for a default conversion.

Done that, there is nothing on my desktop.

 

[JanBakker]

Done that, there is nothing on my desktop.

?

 

[JanBakker]

From their manual:

Installation:
Uncompress the SpecWeb distribution and move/copy the folder where you want it to live on your hard drive. The installation creates shortcuts that expect SpecWeb to be in the same location it was when the installation was run. Placing the SpecWeb folder under “Program Files” (32bit system) or “Program Files (x86)” (on a 64 bit system) is fine, but anywhere will work.
Once you have moved/copied the SpecWeb folder to its final location, open it up and double click on the “Install_SpecWeb.bat” file. This will open one or more command windows and install the needed components, if you don’t already have them:
1) Microsoft 2012 C++ runtime
2) Intel Parallel Studio XE runtime
The installation program will create three shortcuts on your desktop

 

[marpow]

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Not their best but I always liked the bombastic sound of this one, now sounds even better after specweb conversion :banana:.

I absolutely love Hysteria. Is this a Surround disc, or faux surround via foobar and specweb? Which neither do I use nor do I quite understand. I purchase hard discs for surround, I rip RBCD's to my Bluesound Vault, which has it's own app and my HDTracks purchases go directly to the Bluesound, then everything that is ripped comes out of the Bluesound via optical out to the McIntosh D150 for excepitional sonic quality in stereo. So as you see I don't know that much.

 

[JanBakker]

I absolutely love Hysteria. Is this a Surround disc, or faux surround via foobar and specweb? Which neither do I use nor do I quite understand. I purchase hard discs for surround, I rip RBCD's to my Bluesound Vault, which has it's own app and my HDTracks purchases go directly to the Bluesound, then everything that is ripped comes out of the Bluesound via optical out to the McIntosh D150 for excepitional sonic quality in stereo. So as you see I don't know that much.

This is an upmix done with SpecWeb 1.0

 

[marpow]

This is an upmix done with SpecWeb 1.0

Looks like I have some reading and research to do. I love this hobby.

 

[Tornado Red]

Petey and I listening to Rush: 2112 on blu ray 5.1 on a cold Sunday afternoon

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Petey and I listening to Rush: 2112 on blu ray 5.1 on a cold Sunday afternoon View attachment 24862

Petey looks stoked:banana:

 

[Tornado Red]

Petey looks stoked:banana:

Unlike Peart, Petey will always pose for a Rush photo after the concert :ugham:

 

[GOS]

Petey and I listening to Rush: 2112 on blu ray 5.1 on a cold Sunday afternoon View attachment 24862

I bet you guys ARE cold...it's 5 degrees here in warm, balmy central Illinois.