Listening to Now (In Surround) - Volume 2

[JanBakker]

Thank you Stormchaser

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Live Anthology blu ray audio......before I got involved with surround music I really didn't fully appreciate the skills of Tom Petty...I certainly was aware of his hit songs...but I never really was that impressed...but getting these surround titles afforded me the opportunity to dig a little deeper into his skill set...I'm so glad I did....there is a lot to like about his style...and this specific disc just highlights his versatility...62 songs that not only feature his songs but his performance of other cover songs...he pulls it off....I guess there was a reason he sold 80 million records and still counting...

 

[Jeff ss]

Oh, this is the only one I don't have... Very rare and pricey nowadays.

It's amazing how the prices just go up and up! I found this for $2 about 3 years ago. So lucky I am! Keep looking!

 

[Spock]

Pretty nice Silverline, Dar is great

 

[Spock]

And I have to play this one!!! Tour de France startet today

 

[mandrix]

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Live Anthology blu ray audio......before I got involved with surround music I really didn't fully appreciate the skills of Tom Petty...I certainly was aware of his hit songs...but I never really was that impressed...but getting these surround titles afforded me the opportunity to dig a little deeper into his skill set...I'm so glad I did....there is a lot to like about his style...and this specific disc just highlights his versatility...62 songs that not only feature his songs but his performance of other cover songs...he pulls it off....I guess there was a reason he sold 80 million records and still counting...

They were just as good live and in person as any video, probably better. They honed their cover song skills playing clubs around Gainesville like in pre-Mudcrutch days IIRC.

 

[Tornado Red]

44c here today with the heat index, time to cool off...
Quiet Winter Night - Hoff Ensemble on blu ray in 5.1

 

[Cibola]

Bachman-Turner Overdrive Not Fragile DTS-CD 5.1 44.1 k, not exactly crisp but not too bad either. Seems I first heard this several times on an airplane (early in flight entertainment) flying back from PA to the west coast in '74. If I'm wrong about that then I might have lost my mind. Helps if you turn it upStarting with Free Wheelin' this one takes off.

 

[Cibola]

Yes Fragile DVD-A 5.1 MLP 96k 24b; 2015 mixes, what else could I do? Crispy.

 

[weekendtoy]

Opeth: Damnation (DTS 5.1)

 

[Perp]

Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food (DualDisc)

First record by Talking Heads I acquired. And, I won it on a radio station call in, along with two tickets in 1978. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to use the tickets but played the crap out of the record.

 

[Perp]

REM - Automatic For The People (Blu-ray - Dolby Atmos)

 

[kap'n krunch]

Yes Fragile DVD-A 5.1 MLP 96k 24b; 2015 mixes, what else could I do? Crispy.

Crispy indeed!

 

[Perp]

Steven Wilson - To The Bone (DVD - DTS)

 

[Perp]

Philharmonic Orchestra - Remote Galaxy (2L Blu-ray - 9.1 Auro-3D Audio 24/96kHz)

 

[fredblue]

Airto Deodato DV SACD 2-fer

got to the end of Airto's Fingers (trx 1-7), very nice Quad mix with all sorts of percussion, guitar, keys and vocal parts popping up in the rear channels.. great sound quality too, very enjoyable and up there with the DV Deodato 2-fer, I can see i'll be playing this a lot.

when the live stuff kicks in there's a definite difference in sound, not quality per se but just the texture and feel is different from the previous tracks. I guess that could just be the recording, as it is concert material after all and Fingers is a studio production (crowd noise eerily absent a lot of the time? some polite ripples of applause, whoops and whistles here and there.. they're alive but they're not exactly too lively!)
also, as soon as the Live material commences, it hits you that more than just the string overdubs (steelydave mentioned on QQ previously) get panned back in the rears, so I suspect based on what steelydave said in that context (that the mix on Q8 was tame with just strings back there) the SQ decode on this one gives a more interesting surround effect than the old tape did, as a "former discrete snob" i'm enjoying it more than i thought i would! (not tried the Stereo to see if it's SQ encoded yet but I will later).

 

[fizzywiggs41]

Last nite some,


E.L.P. -E.L.P DVDA

Great SW mix of course .

 

[fizzywiggs41]

And then a switch up to another great album with an equally great ES mix .


Beck - Sea Change DVDA

 

[mandrix]

Lots of ELP-FANFARE 1970-1997 while I was converting to flac and sorting out cue files. (Why do these programs screw up the frames? Anyway easy enough to sort out, just time)
Also a while ago I put Savoy Brown Street Corner Talkin' in the OPPO and tested out the DTS Neural : X. I guess it did an OK job for a hardware upmixer. Plus the rear speakers worked unlike when I tried with the tuner.

 

[vegas]

I'm on the blues mood today.