Listening to Now (In Surround) - Volume 2

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Just discovered a surround mix hidden in my cd collection that I didn't know I had (Whoo-hoo!)... The Dual Disc of Bruce Dickinson's "Balls To Picasso"; had to start with "Tears of the Dragon" (of course), and it sounds really good. Could be one of the better surround metal offerings...
 
This is the perfect companion to a lovely sunny morning in San Francisco when you're working from home. The 24/192 5.1 Bluray is beautiful; full of air and detail and the mix is knockout. It's a member of the quartet in each speaker and a little room ambience bleed in the centre. The material is hard to go wrong with really; Dvorak, Gershwin, Bernstein and Glass! Lots of call and response; it's a hard heart that would not be charmed by this gorgeous disc.

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This is the perfect companion to a lovely sunny morning in San Francisco when you're working from home. The 24/192 5.1 Bluray is beautiful; full of air and detail and the mix is knockout. It's a member of the quartet in each speaker and a little room ambience bleed in the centre. The material is hard to go wrong with really; Dvorak, Gershwin, Bernstein and Glass! Lots of call and response; it's a hard heart that would not be charmed by this gorgeous disc.

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It also has a 7.1 mix...pretty interesting and affordable here
 
Just discovered a surround mix hidden in my cd collection that I didn't know I had (Whoo-hoo!)... The Dual Disc of Bruce Dickinson's "Balls To Picasso"; had to start with "Tears of the Dragon" (of course), and it sounds really good. Could be one of the better surround metal offerings...

Spooky! I've got the Balls to Picasso DualDisc on its way in the mail as we speak (I'm going thru the Silverlines now and grabbing any I see cheap) Glad to hear it's a good one! (y)
 
This is the perfect companion to a lovely sunny morning in San Francisco when you're working from home. The 24/192 5.1 Bluray is beautiful; full of air and detail and the mix is knockout. It's a member of the quartet in each speaker and a little room ambience bleed in the centre. The material is hard to go wrong with really; Dvorak, Gershwin, Bernstein and Glass! Lots of call and response; it's a hard heart that would not be charmed by this gorgeous disc.

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Thanks for the info :) sounds amazing! another one on the shopping list!
 
This is the perfect companion to a lovely sunny morning in San Francisco when you're working from home. The 24/192 5.1 Bluray is beautiful; full of air and detail and the mix is knockout. It's a member of the quartet in each speaker and a little room ambience bleed in the centre. The material is hard to go wrong with really; Dvorak, Gershwin, Bernstein and Glass! Lots of call and response; it's a hard heart that would not be charmed by this gorgeous disc.

Thanks looks interesting so Modern Mandolin Quartet " Americana" CD+BDA duly ordered :)
- the cost of postage from the US to the UK was more than the disc, its not available this side of the pond! :rolleyes:
 
NO!! Crikey!! :yikes ..the DVD sounds pretty respectable (especially as Dolby D.) but I bet that SACDs the cats' whiskers! :kitty:

It sounds really full and rich; I have to admit the DD always sounded ok to my ears - I was just glad we got the mix in the first place.
 
Keeping it in the Sono-Luminus family, I'm listening to 'American Aggregate'. Arguably more challenging, being made of contemporary composers but beautifully recorded directly as 7.1 at 24/192. The 5.1 24/192 I am listening to demands you turn it up - it starts to come alive in all corners, this being sometimes highly directional and sometimes more of a sustained and complete 'circle-sound' experience. 82 minutes of music makes it good value. References would be Philip Glass, Michael Nyman - that sort of thing, even reminds me a little bit of Beaver And Krause at their most orchestral. It's at the more cinematic end of the avant garde though; I'm looking at a large format book of vintage Film Noir posters while I listen and it seems to fit quite nicely. Highly recommended - listen out for the tuning fork/metallophone breakdown in track 4, sonorous but stark and a tiny but chilling. It makes the apartment seem like a vast chamber, quite magical really.

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