Listening to Now (In Surround) - Volume 2

[GOS]

Barclay James Harvest - Time Honoured Ghosts (Upmix)

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aaack. I forgot I bought this. Need to unwrap and give a listen.

 

[bgf1973]

aaack. I forgot I bought this. Need to unwrap and give a listen.

I think this is my favorite BJH album. The upmix is more than acceptable

 

[Quad Linda]

Redbone, Message From a Drum (1972/1971), in a conversion from a discrete source. Another of the many bands I'm getting to know, fifty years after the fact. (Now the subject of a non-fiction graphic novel.) I like it--the mix and the music. Especially like the proggy/jazzy/worldy aspects of the music, which I wasn't expecting.

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Although not Quad, there is an eerier alternate mix of Witch Queen on US Columbia's Rock Artifacts vol 1:

https://www.discogs.com/release/5094729-Various-Rock-Artifacts-Volume-1

 

[beerking]

I think this is my favorite BJH album. The upmix is more than acceptable

Completely agree....BJH were really in their prime with this release.

 

[bgf1973]

Katatonia - The Fall Of Hearts (Bruce Soord 5.1 Mix)

 

[humprof]

Helen Reddy, Free and Easy (1974), in a conversion from Q8. Worth hearing for the creepy opening cut (the radio hit "Angie Baby") alone, but the rest of the album isn't bad, either. The Pointer Sisters even show up on the corny razzle-dazzle "Showbiz." I may be misremembering, but it seems like the mix is more discrete than either of the titles on Dutton's two-fer. Rear channels are a bit loud, though maybe that's just an anomaly of the source tape.

 

[humprof]

Warming up for the new REM reissue (the 25th Anniversary New Adventures in Hi-Fi) with some old REM reissues--the Document and Green DVD-As from 2003 & 2005. Also still learning how to warm up to REM. (I'm coming along, slowly.) No problem with the solid Scheiner mixes, though.

 

[bgf1973]

The last for today........The Pineapple Thief - The Game

 

[user 1679]

Van der Graaf Generator -

H to He Who Am the Only One

 

[Quad Linda]

The Visit - Loreena McKennitt BD
Jonquil - Lee Konitz SACD
Machine Head - Deep Purple DVD-A

 

[Zing]

Last evening my wife and I listened to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring while watching a live stream of the La Palma volcano eruption.

The dramatic musical passages often lined up with the explosive lava bursts. Quite enjoyable, but I feel awful for the folks affected by the lava's devastation.

 

[JanBakker]

 

[beerking]

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Bean on the look out for a review Jan.

 

[svengaleekie]

 

[JanBakker]

Bean on the look out for a review Jan.

I'm a lousy reviewer, I'll leave that to people that are better at it. I just ripped it and on my first listen now, all I can say is that the sound quality is pretty good, lots of low end too .

 

[beerking]

I'm a lousy reviewer, I'll leave that to people that are better at it. I just ripped it and on my first listen now, all I can say is that the sound quality is pretty good, lots of low end too .

Thanks for replying quickly Jan.

Its okay, as long as it's up the normal Dream Theatre surround standard, then I'm happy to go ahead and purchase it.

 

[svengaleekie]

Simon_LDT said:
Got mine on Thursday from Burning Shed and watched it last night. Fantastic disc with great picture quality, nice and slow editing and audio is superb. I opted for the DTS-HD 5.1 as I don't have Atmos and it sounded good. Love how most of the 2nd guitarist's work was in the rears. Vocals a bit low I found but nothing too drastic (for some reason they feature in all 3 front channels).

I've just had my 2nd listen, this time in 5.1 and I'm getting vocals in all 5 speakers, I wouldn't say vocals where mixed low though. Yesterday I listened in Atmos and it seemed (though I didn't put my ear to the speakers) that vocals where from the surrounds (not rears) and I didn't like it, which is why I thought I'd try 5.1 today, still not keen on the vocal mix.
I'm guessing that because Bruce is in the middle with the camera moving round him that his vocal is coming from the middle of the room.

 

[jefe1]

Santana ST Japanese 7 edition

 

[Beefalo]

Peter Gabriel ‎– Play: The Videos
DTS 5.1

"The 23 surround mixes are magnificent, emanating from all available channels and accentuating Gabriel’s engaging textures.
Daniel Lanois has done a superlative job creating the various soundscapes for the vast variety of music on this disc"

 

[Cibola]

Cannot get this one out of my mind, King Crimson Discipline Frame By Frame DVD-A 5.1 MLP 96k 24b, even skipped Elephant Talk. Continuing though, Indiscipline now. Ending with Elephant Talk