Well, I came home a bit early, and before I knew it, UPS was here!!! Shipped from Amazon, frankly I didn't care about getting the best price as long as it showed up on release day. That was more important to me at this stage of my life.
And it was well packed in what appears to be a factory type box
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So, for the first time since the era of DVD-A and SACD, I actually took the thing into my "big room" to listen to it on a real audio system BEFORE I brought it up to the big PC to rip it and check out the wav's and make a version for the car. Wow. I was glad I did.
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It was great. I listened to the whole thing in 5.1, watching the birds fly through the sky, then I decided to try the Atmos. Now my system in this room is actually 7.1, but it's not Atmos as my receiver is a Denon AVR-4308i, which was a decent receiver in the old days. Anyway, it worked! The receiver showed Dolby TrueHD 7.1!
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So I then checked it out that way. Very cool!
First impressions are good. Notes that they did split the guitar solos at the end, one in F, R, and C. And "Her Majesty" is a great little surround demo!
More later, but this is really good. I am sure there will be nit-picks. My only sadness is that we did not have it like this in 1975 or so, when my ears worked a lot better and the music was a lot "fresher".
Oh well, you can't always get what you want! (Ooops! Wrong group!)