Listening to Now (In Surround) - Volume 2

[Tornado Red]

Decided to put on an old favourite tonight. Don’t play (or have many) DVD-Vs, but this one has always been special. Just got back from the east coast last week, I had gone to attend a committal service for my older brother who had passed in February. He had been battling ALS for many years, and once he had become wheel chair bound, music listening and tv watching was how he filled his days. With that in mind, I bought he and I both copies of this DVD years ago and I will forever think of him now when it plays
James Taylor - One Man Band on DVD-V in DD 5.1

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Decided to put on an old favourite tonight. Don’t play (or have many) DVD-Vs, but this one has always been special. Just got back from the east coast last week, I had gone to attend a committal service for my older brother who had passed in February. He had been battling ALS for many years, and once he had become wheel chair bound, music listening and tv watching was how he filled his days. With that in mind, I bought he and I both copies of this DVD years ago and I will forever think of him now when it plays
James Taylor - One Man Band on DVD-V in DD 5.1

Sorry for your loss Red

 

[Perp]

Looks like Gene is coming off a 4 day bender

He doesn’t drink alcohol. So, it’s more like a benderover.

 

[Snood]

He doesn’t drink alcohol. So, it’s more like a benderover.

No Alcohol??? Maybe something else then!!!! Cuz he looks like sheeeeeeeeeeeet!

 

[Clint Eastwood]

He doesn’t drink alcohol. So, it’s more like a benderover.

Say what?

 

[Tornado Red]

No Alcohol??? Maybe something else then!!!! Cuz he looks like sheeeeeeeeeeeet!

...and yet he’s filthy rich and married to Shannon Tweed!

 

[Frogmort]

Listened to: King Crimson - Lark's Tongues in Aspic

Listening to: King Crimson - Starless & Bible Black

This sort of thing is my bag baby!

 

[Lute]

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Organ Works Vol. 1 (SACD)

Harald Vogel (organ)

All this talk of organs and Sweelinck drew me to this one from the MDG label next. The swallow’s nest organ in St. Mary’s Church in Lemgo is another remarkable instrument.

Thanks for the response. Nice to see another organ buff . Do you listen to organlive.com music station by any chance ?

Definitely nice to hear from another organ buff!

There are so many wonderful organ recordings in surround. Sometimes I find myself listening to nothing else. Thanks for the link! That site is new to me. I look forward to exploring it.

 

[skherbeck]

Jethro Tull "Heavy Horses" DTS DVD 5.1- Friggin' excellent!

 

[Frogmort]

Psst... Snood is the only Staff Member online right now. Time to go BANANAS!!!

 

[skherbeck]

Mansun - Attack Of The Grey Lantern 5.1 DTS DVD... This showed up today (forgot I ordered it!)... good music... and a lackluster, almost non-existent surround experience. I won't be pre-ordering any more surround discs from the Mansun series.

 

[Frogmort]

Listened to: Toto - IV

Listening to: Steven Wilson - To the Bone

As a huge prog fan and not much of a pop fan, Bone has taken longer for me to get into, but I think I'm slowly coming around to it.

Edit: Detonation really rocks near the end, but when the music first kicks in, to me it sounds an awful lot like Kansas - Fight Fire With Fire, which is actually pretty cool. The phone dialing sound also reminds me of The Matrix.

 

[von kulper]

Mansun - Attack Of The Grey Lantern 5.1 DTS DVD... This showed up today (forgot I ordered it!)... good music... and a lackluster, almost non-existent surround experience. I won't be pre-ordering any more surround discs from the Mansun series.

I'm trying to push my expectations for this to the lowest possible level they can go, that way when I finally get mine and listen to it, maybe I'll be like "ya know, it's better than I expected!" and maybe I can enjoy it on some level and not feel physically ill over the $60 I spent on it

Anyway, listening to some Yes, The Yes Album, DVD-A

 

[von kulper]

Graham Nash - Songs for Beginners

Not a favorite of mine, but also, not one I have listened to very much. Mix and SQ is very good, just never been keen on GN's voice and songs, outside of the CSN(Y) stuff. For some reason though, and a few beers in, this is album is sitting quite well

It's always been weird to me that we have Graham Nash DTS CD, David Crosby DVD-audio, Graham Nash DVD-audio, Crosby and Nash DVD-audio, Neil Young DVD-audio... But not a single CSN or CSNY 5.1 release.

 

[Snood]

Psst... Snood is the only Staff Member online right now. Time to go BANANAS!!!

Might Wanna temper those Bananas

 

[mandrix]

Graham Nash - Songs for Beginners

Not a favorite of mine, but also, not one I have listened to very much. Mix and SQ is very good, just never been keen on GN's voice and songs, outside of the CSN(Y) stuff. For some reason though, and a few beers in, this is album is sitting quite well

It's always been weird to me that we have Graham Nash DTS CD, David Crosby DVD-audio, Graham Nash DVD-audio, Crosby and Nash DVD-audio, Neil Young DVD-audio... But not a single CSN or CSNY 5.1 release.

Feel much like you about Nash solos except I really like Wild Tales. Unfortunately, no surround although I did do an upmix several years ago. Looking for a disc, the digital version went bye-bye.

 

[César]

Doing some experiments with INXS Kick and Atmos height speaker levels. Even though my system should be properly calibrated, the spatial surround experience on this record is much better boosting up all height speakers +4dB. Not so tame a mix this way

 

[Spock]

I have my height, rears and surrounds 2dB louder than calibration - I like a bit extra surround and all speaker pointing in direction of sweespot.

Killer mix...

 

[fizzywiggs41]

Gave this SACD another spin last nite.

Excellent surround by Al Kooper for a recording that was originally issued in 1968


Blood Sweat and Tears - Child Is Father To The Man

 

[mandrix]

Gave Blackfield IV another listen today + 3rd set of Gentle Giant's Three Piece Suite + No Man Schoolyard Ghosts
Currently listening to my AVCHD upmix of Radiohead KID A