Listening to Now (In Surround) - Volume 2

[skherbeck]

Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra and Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta SACD (Ozawa/Boston Symphony Orchestra/Pentatone)- This is the perfect disc to put on at the end of a hard day to set your nerves on edge... difficult and thoroughly unenjoyable. It kind of reminds me of a movie soundtrack: most soundtracks consist of melodic themes interspersed with mood-setting orchestral sounds... this is basically all the mood-setting orchestral sounds without any of the melodic themes. There is ONE track that I'll listen to again, which is "Adagio" from the second suite on the disc: creepy background music from Kubrick's "The Shining". I don't think I'll listen to the rest of this disc again, though.

*Very nice surround mix, though... very wide soundstage

 

[GOS]

Queensryche - Tribe [Dualdisc MLP 96/24 6channel]

 

[Cibola]

Queen The Game; 5.1 MLP 96k 24b DVD-Audio, got 'em dialed in tonight. Haven't cranked this in quite some time. Don't have much time but Another One Bites The Dust. Oh and thanks for Jack 'O Lantern Jon, always like the change of season. This is so much better than I remember, surrounds active, crazy little thing called surround sound. I'll probably get in trouble soon.:chill Cheating, Queen A Night at the Opera, Bohemian Rhapsody. nothing really matters.

 

[Snood]

Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra and Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta SACD (Ozawa/Boston Symphony Orchestra/Pentatone)- This is the perfect disc to put on at the end of a hard day to set your nerves on edge... difficult and thoroughly unenjoyable. It kind of reminds me of a movie soundtrack: most soundtracks consist of melodic themes interspersed with mood-setting orchestral sounds... this is basically all the mood-setting orchestral sounds without any of the melodic themes. There is ONE track that I'll listen to again, which is "Adagio" from the second suite on the disc: creepy background music from Kubrick's "The Shining". I don't think I'll listen to the rest of this disc again, though.

So Hoity Toity nowadays :banana::banana:

 

[seilerbird]

The World Series is in surround and every once in a while I hear some strange noise from my rear speaker that makes me jump.:yikes

 

[d0zer]

Amin Bhatia - Interstellar Suite (BRA) This one came in yesterday and it's by no ways what I was expecting. But I really love it. It took some time until I realized it was no real orchestra I was listening to. It's like a star wars themed audio drama. Excellent surround mix. It's really strange that I never heard about this one when it was new. I'm really into the likes of Tomita, Tangerine Drem, Klaus Schulze and so on. Speaking about Tomita - musically this one reminds me a lot of Tomita's Ravel Album, which is my favorite of him. So I'm really glad I purchased it. Thank you to all of you who praised it!

 

[fizzywiggs41]

REM-Automatic For The People. DVDA


Excellent surround by E.S. Musically a sad songs type of album from them. I kinda think it's similar "tune-wise", to Beck's Sea Change and Dylan's-Blood On The Tracks. And all were superbly mixed by Scheiner .

well worth having , fwiw.

 

[fizzywiggs41]

Hadn't listened to Yoshmi for awhile, so last nite I spun it about .

Profound !-----use of surround . Don't know of any quad/5.1 albums that can even approach this type of mix.

Flaming Lips-Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots. DVDA

 

[d0zer]

Just an afterthought to the Amin Bhatia - Interstellar Suite Blu Ray: The Bolero Electronica featured on this disc is so cool. Going from the first monophon synthesizers to modern day synths and from mono to full blast 5.1 is really great fun to listen!

 

[skherbeck]

Just an afterthought to the Amin Bhatia - Interstellar Suite Blu Ray: The Bolero Electronica featured on this disc is so cool. Going from the first monophon synthesizers to modern day synths and from mono to full blast 5.1 is really great fun to listen!

I think so too... maybe you could stop by the forum and vote on this one (it needs 10 votes to make it to the polls!)

 

[skherbeck]

Beethoven - Symphonies No. 7&8 (DVD-A; Barenboim conducting) I've listened to 3 discs in this series so far (this one, the 9th, and the 3rd), and all I can say is they sound amazing. The performances are emotional, and the surround mix is very wide and enveloping... not discrete, but great as far as most classical surround mixes go (lots of activity in the surround channels). Thanks for the recommendation, ubertrout!

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Metallica Francais Pour Une Nuit blu ray...had to hear Enter Sandman...love that song..

 

[H.A.L.]

Have the new Deodato (djo-dah-too !) double-album SACD playing now . . . very cool! At times like an odd mix of Santana and Herbie Hancock's Watermelon Man days, and at others almost new-age-y.

Love the different mix of instruments. As much as I love rock groups like the Who et. al., you nearly are always hearing guitar-bass-drum, and Deodato mixes it up (with the keyboards being central, for sure).

Of course, on the next song that might change!@:

Ooh, "Nights in White Satin," later, guys

 

[Tornado Red]

Big Phat Band - Swingin’ For The Fences on DVD-A

 

[olgitnorm]

Steve Miller Band...Fly Like An Eagle

 

[skherbeck]

Great Film Fantasies SACD (Telarc/ Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops Orchestra)- This is a GREAT album for fans of Star Wars and John Williams; excellent versions of all the best themes from the first 6 Star Wars films are here, as well as 3 Harry Potter themes and some Lord of The Rings themes. Very nice wide soundstage-type mix. I've spent a lot of time ripping End credit sequences from the Star Wars films (Blu-rays), but these actually sound better in terms of surround. The LOTR stuff is nice to have if you don't have time for the full 10 hours of Howard Shore stuff on the DVD-As.

 

[Frogmort]

Weird Al - Straight Outta Lynwood :banana: It's actually pretty amazingly discrete with some great moving around surround effects. :upthumb

 

[Frogmort]

 

[popshop]

Fantastic

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[Frogmort]

Steven Wilson - To The Bone

I think this album has traces of absolute brilliance, and certain songs are catchy as hell, but for me, it doesn't hold a candle to Raven or even Hand. I still enjoy it a lot though.