Please post your thoughts and comments on this new Blu-Ray Audio edition of the classic Pearl Jam album "Vitalogy", which features a new Dolby Atmos mix of the album.
HiRez Poll Pearl Jam - VITALOGY [Blu-Ray Audio (Dolby Atmos)]
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Played the Atmos mix on my 5.1 system. This turned out much better than the Atmos for Dark Matter, which sounds muddy and unbalanced. Giving it a 9 for how well the instrumentation was placed in the surround field. Fidelity was good, the sonic qualities of the original were retained but everything was clean and present. There isn't a lot of movement of instruments/real time panning, the strategy here was clearly to execute an immersive "in the room with the band" feel and it succeeded at that. I'm not sure Pearl Jam's music lends itself to tricks or fun with surround, so IMO that was the right choice (and probably the right choice for most rock music).
I liked that they gave the short and/or oddball tracks the same level of attention, I rather enjoyed Bugs, Aye Davanita, and Hey Foxy... in their surround form ['skippable' filler for me until now].
I liked that they gave the short and/or oddball tracks the same level of attention, I rather enjoyed Bugs, Aye Davanita, and Hey Foxy... in their surround form ['skippable' filler for me until now].
Received this last week in a packet listed as from "Santa's Halper" at the Ten Club.
Listened to the Atmos mix ripped to 7.1 FLAC in my car.
Nice, immersive mix that suits the material pretty perfectly. This is a pretty uneven album with some killer, some meh, and some filler. The mix nicely layers some of the vocal overdubs around the space. The use of the surround space is always present but never intrusive, and true to the equalization of the original stereo mix -- well done.
10/10 from me.
Listened to the Atmos mix ripped to 7.1 FLAC in my car.
Nice, immersive mix that suits the material pretty perfectly. This is a pretty uneven album with some killer, some meh, and some filler. The mix nicely layers some of the vocal overdubs around the space. The use of the surround space is always present but never intrusive, and true to the equalization of the original stereo mix -- well done.
10/10 from me.
Not voting because I've only heard the streaming version, and in 5.1 at that, but I just hear a surround mix that's too wedded to the stereo original to get excited about... and I was really excited when those mixes came out. They didn't even take Ed's "Can't find a better man!/Can't find a betterman.." call-and-response at the end of the song and move the response part into the surrounds; no, it's just in the fronts. You could completely cut every channel except L and R and you really don't miss anything that isn't drowned out by the fronts anyway.
It doesn't sound bad, it just does disappointingly little to elevate the material over a $1 copy of the EK 66900 CD.
It doesn't sound bad, it just does disappointingly little to elevate the material over a $1 copy of the EK 66900 CD.
In Atmos, that response vocal is in the front left height speaker.
Well, that's why I'm not voting if I can't hear the Atmos as intended. But good to know, TY!
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