Listening to Now (In Surround) - Volume 2

[skherbeck]

Ayreon “Into The Electric Castle” (Quad conversion from 5.1 DVD) - listened to the ENTIRE thing last night (105 minutes) and now doing it again. One of the best surround releases ever.

 

[beerking]

Genesis
A Trick of the Tail

This one:
https://www.discogs.com/Genesis-A-Trick-Of-The-Tail/release/2616827

 

[DuncanS]

Ayreon “Into The Electric Castle” (Quad conversion from 5.1 DVD) - listened to the ENTIRE thing last night (105 minutes) and now doing it again. One of the best surround releases ever.

I finally managed to listen to it today from start to finish (I've never got past track 3 then past track 7 before giving up due to getting interrupted by work calls!), its brilliant, great music, excellent surround mix.

 

[beerking]

just to report: I MUST BE ON THE 5TH REPLAY OF RIPPLES

Such a great song from Trick of the Tail.
Don't do this very often
It's just so captivating.

 

[DuncanS]

Is there a Poll for the 5.1 DD DVD of Ayreon's “Into The Electric Castle”? I can't find one, and I was actually going to post & vote!

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Is there a Poll for the 5.1 DD DVD of Ayreon's “Into The Electric Castle”? I can't find one, and I was actually going to post & vote!

So this surround is Dolby Digital 5.1?

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Michael Brecker-Pilgrimage...I haven't listened to this one recently....but it's a good one...Herbie Hancock and Pat Metheny are excellent...and Jack DeJohnette on the drums puts in a full day's work

this would be right up Pupster's alley

 

[J. PUPSTER]

Michael Brecker-Pilgrimage...I haven't listened to this one recently....but it's a good one...Herbie Hancock and Pat Metheny are excellent...and Jack DeJohnette on the drums puts in a full day's work

this would be right up Pupster's alley

You are right my man; been procrastinating on this one a long time (excellent players & nobody better IMO than Michael Brecker), just gotta hunt one down at a "reasonable" price

 

[DuncanS]

So this surround is Dolby Digital 5.1?

Yes, and it sounds good!

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Yes, and it sounds good!

You don't know how much I love to hear that we have some DD haters on here...it makes me laugh sometimes because there are MANY excellent sounding DD recordings

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Ok...another one from the Heads Up collection...a band I loved in my laser disc days...Yellow Jackets-Altered State...

 

[J. PUPSTER]

Ok...another one from the Heads Up collection...a band I loved in my laser disc days...Yellow Jackets-Altered State...

Great music lovers think alike, just listened to that yesterday

 

[kap'n krunch]

You are right my man; been procrastinating on this one a long time (excellent players & nobody better IMO than Michael Brecker), just gotta hunt one down at a "reasonable" price

you and me BOTH, nene!!

 

[kap'n krunch]

Not discrete at all and a lot of weird phasing burps.. methinks this was not recorded as well as it could have... great performance and of course, spectacular stuff!!!

 

[edisonbaggins]

Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won
BD-A DTS HD Master 5.1

 

[Cibola]

The Doobie Brothers, The Captain and Me DVD-A 96k 24b: For some reason, usually play it start to finish, the sound quality seems to get better after the first three or four songs.

 

[GOS]

Not discrete at all and a lot of weird phasing burps.. methinks this was not recorded as well as it could have... great performance and of course, spectacular stuff!!!

I sort of like the cover art too.

 

[kap'n krunch]

Just cause it was in my Oppo....
thought of Fredblue, it's playing "Miss Riddle"... yes, could be the BEST one of the bunch (such a DIFFICULT choice!!)
PEAZO DE PUTO DISCO ESTE!!! (only spaniards will understand this)

 

[DuncanS]

You don't know how much I love to hear that we have some DD haters on here...it makes me laugh sometimes because there are MANY excellent sounding DD recordings

I'd rather have the surround mix in DD than none at all. The Aryeon 5.1 DD sounds great. I think its down to the person doing the Mastering/Encoding for Dolby, if they understand the 'medium' and its faults/limitations, plus they are used to doing music not films/movies, they do a good job. If they don't I think it ends up as Dulby and doesn't sound good. Its like recording in digital or analogue form, you have to know what you're doing, the two 'behave' differently in extremis. I have some good/great sounding DD and some bad. DTS is much more 'forgiving' and was designed with music in mind from the beginning.

 

[edisonbaggins]

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
BD-A 1975 Quad Uncompressed