Listening to Now (In Surround) - Volume 2

[Tornado Red]

Nat King Cole....anyone else have this HFPA? I've likely mentioned this on here before but...it's a stereo only disc with 3 options. DTS MA, Dolby TrueHD and pcm. On my set up, pcm will get you stereo. DTS MA comes through as Neo 6: Cinema and the Dolby track is Pro Logic II: Movies. I'm finding listening to this in Neo 6 is quite impressive! I assume my Pioneer AVR is just playing what the Oppo is sending it, so it must be the disc. Weird.

 

[Simon A]

Nat King Cole....anyone else have this HFPA? I've likely mentioned this on here before but...it's a stereo only disc with 3 options. DTS MA, Dolby TrueHD and pcm. On my set up, pcm will get you stereo. DTS MA comes through as Neo 6: Cinema and the Dolby track is Pro Logic II: Movies. I'm finding listening to this in Neo 6 is quite impressive! I assume my Pioneer AVR is just playing what the Oppo is sending it, so it must be the disc. Weird.

What does it sound like actually? Reverb in the rears for ambiance?

 

[fredblue]

Nat King Cole....anyone else have this HFPA? I've likely mentioned this on here before but...it's a stereo only disc with 3 options. DTS MA, Dolby TrueHD and pcm. On my set up, pcm will get you stereo. DTS MA comes through as Neo 6: Cinema and the Dolby track is Pro Logic II: Movies. I'm finding listening to this in Neo 6 is quite impressive! I assume my Pioneer AVR is just playing what the Oppo is sending it, so it must be the disc. Weird.

Yaaa.. got it somewhere, it's not bad (lot of lovely music for the money and it does sound very nice for the most part.. though I prefer the sound of the Hoffman mastered SACDs in 3-channel fwiw, they sound really super to me).

Don't remember trying the Nat King Cole HFPA in PLII/DTS Neo etc., as it happens.. but in any event I doubt its a(nother) stealth matrix surround conspiracy job, Red.. it'll doubtless be some setting in your gear that's synthesising the 2ch DTS & Dolby streams into pseudo-surround.. abracadabra!

L.. is for the way you Look.. at meeeeeee...
O is for the.. da da dum dee dee.. :music

 

[fredblue]

What does it sound like actually? Reverb in the rears for ambiance?

There's one of those German public domain SACDs of Nat with fake surround if you're up for it.. Membran or All-Bran, or some label like that..
they did a load of them, you know the ones Simon.. they came in b&w slipcases.. Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Sir Duke, all that.. Jazz..

 

[Tornado Red]

What does it sound like actually? Reverb in the rears for ambiance?

Well, lots of songs on this disc from different eras with different mastering I suspect, hard to pin down. Some songs are almost ALL centre channel with everything else being ambient at best. Some like 'Unforgettable" are quite wide and sound delightfull!

 

[Tornado Red]

Yaaa.. got it somewhere, it's not bad (lot of lovely music for the money and it does sound very nice for the most part.. though I prefer the sound of the Hoffman mastered SACDs in 3-channel fwiw, they sound really super to me).

Don't remember trying the Nat King Cole HFPA in PLII/DTS Neo etc., as it happens.. but in any event I doubt its a(nother) stealth matrix surround conspiracy job, Red.. it'll doubtless be some setting in your gear that's synthesising the 2ch DTS & Dolby streams into pseudo-surround.. abracadabra!

L.. is for the way you Look.. at meeeeeee...
O is for the.. da da dum dee dee.. :music

Fred King Cole :upthumb

 

[edisonbaggins]

Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges Ruth - DTS 20-bit 5.1

 

[edisonbaggins]

Emmylou Harris - Producer's Cut - DVD-A 5.1

 

[wavelength]

Emmylou Harris - Producer's Cut - DVD-A 5.1

Voice of an angel. I also have this one.

 

[ji eff]

Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges Ruth - DTS 20-bit 5.1

20-bit, huh?

My first "pro" soundcard was 20-bit.. "Layla", by Echo. purchased in 2000

transitioning times I believe.. WTF!

 

[edisonbaggins]

Voice of an angel.

YEEEEESSSS

 

[bossfan]

Anathema A Sort of Homecoming.

 

[ji eff]

Voice of an angel. I also have this one.

sorry... couldn't help myself :spot

*that thing played to death at my parent's place back in '98-99

 

[edisonbaggins]

sorry... couldn't help myself :spot

*that thing played to death at my parent's place back in '98-99

OMG. I've seen this on Amazon for $0.01 for ages. Is it actually worth it? That'd be $4 with shipping...

 

[ji eff]

oh well.. you triggered me, wavelength!

emma shapplin - etterna dvd-a

(my angel voice!)

 

[edisonbaggins]

oh well.. you triggered me, wavelength!

emma shapplin - etterna dvd-a

(my angel voice!)

Ordered! ('cuz I'm like dat)

 

[ji eff]

OMG. I've seen this on Amazon for $0.01 for ages. Is it actually worth it? That'd be $4 with shipping...

I can't really recall.. but knowing your aversion to anything "spiritual", STAY AWAY FROM THIS! ^_^

She was "endorsed" by the Catholic Church..

 

[ji eff]

Ordered! ('cuz I'm like dat)

seems you have the budget of someone who grows things in South America... (pun intended!) you hear me, GOS? :upthumb (dr. greenthumb!)

 

[edisonbaggins]

seems you have the budget of someone who grows things in South America... (pun intended!) you hear me, GOS? :upthumb (dr. greenthumb!)

It was $8! Cheapy surround deals are my specialty!

 

[Lute]

An Evening with Leopold Stokowski (SACD)

Music of Bach, Cesti, Handel, Ockeghem, Palestrina, Purcell, Tchaikovsky

Brussels Philharmonic
Richard Egarr (conductor)

Beautiful performances of orchestrations by Leopold Stokowski. Some are well known works, such as Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D minor. Others are less often heard (but no less impressive) works from the Renaissance. The recording has a wonderfully deep soundstage.