HiRez Poll Storm Corrosion - STORM CORROSION [Blu-Ray Audio (Dolby Atmos)]

[DrKlahn]

You're lucky. I really, really wanted to have a system including Wides but I simply don't have the space to install those speakers at the proper locations, so I had to eventually settle for a 7.2.4, which isn't bad anyway because I could setup those really well.

My Blu-ray is on the way, will review the Atmos mix soon. I'm very familiar with the stereo and 5.1 mixes - it's one of my most listened to albums in the last few years (35 spins from start to finish according to my last.fm, plus a few more of some specific songs).

If your room/setup doesn't call for it, you're not really missing anything. I've gotten to experience wides in various rooms. If you have a large gap to fill between the fronts and rears along with speakers that don't have a wide soundstage, they are excellent additions. If your front speakers throw a wide soundstage and you don't have a discernable gap in the front to rear imaging, they tend to be superfluous.

 

[LuvMyQuad]

I recieved this a few weeks back but just got to audition it..

This is a completly new record for me. I never heard any of it before. I do have most of Wilsons catalog, and a smattering of Opeth though, the non-growl stuff anyway.

If there were an award for most active mix, this would certainly be a contender. Mixwise it's demo material. (5.1.4 here). Lots of discreet elements in the heights. Very noticeable. Very cool.

Im still trying to digest the content. It has some great moments. Very proggy, with nice sonics. But sometimes it drags a little and I need to figure out what the lyrics are about. It's at least an 8 so far.

 

[minimumtumbleweed]

What can I say, the mix is wonderful, not quite revelatory. It's nice to have the heights but I don't feel it is leaps and bounds over the old 5.1. I haven't listened to the whole album in ages and this recent listen kind of reminded me why. It's not bad, just not super-interesting. I've always really like the closing track and will probably listen to that one on occasion, but less so to the rest of the tracks. I give it an 8.

 

[bgf1973]

without a doubt one of the top 10 Atmos mix of this year. I vote 10

 

[LuvMyQuad]

It's not bad, just not super-interesting. I've always really like the closing track and will probably listen to that one on occasion, but less so to the rest of the tracks.

I agree on the content. I find the album hard to get into, and even a little disjointed in places. Weird sometimes even. I decided on an 8.

 

[madscot]

I agree on the content. I find the album hard to get into, and even a little disjointed in places. Weird sometimes even. I decided on an 8.

I personally think to love this album you have to be a huge Steven Wilson and Opeth fan, it is a very strange, weird and wonderful album that could be the soundtrack to a horror movie.

 

[stoopid]

I personally think to love this album you have to be a huge Steven Wilson and Opeth fan, it is a very strange, weird and wonderful album that could be the soundtrack to a horror movie.

I have to be in the mood and it helps having heard it prior to 'know what I was getting myself into'. Once that expectation is set, as an audible work of art, it succeeds.

I encourage anyone who's lukewarm on the album to revisit it sometime. Wish I had taken this advice myself on the original release, I probably would have listened to it more than twice in surround.

 

[Thonolan]

To be honest, and even though I can see why this album is kind of a 'mood piece', I don't need to be in any special mood to enjoy it. I just love it immensely, to the extent that it's probably in my personal top-5 of albums released in the 21st century. Musically it's a 10/10 for me, and so it's been since the day it was originally released.

I'm not sure about the Atmos mix yet, though. It is clearly very good, but there are some speficific instances that, to me, sound better on the (already excellent) 5.1 mix. Again, it's really good but I was expecting to be blown away after reading most of the reviews and so far (2 listens) I'm not. I'll give it a couple more spins before voting.

I absolutely love the demo tracks though. Super interesting, and noticeably different from the definitive versions.