WHO’S NEXT/LIFEHOUSE Box set coming in September 2023 (STEVEN WILSON DOLBY ATMOS & 5.1 MIXES CONFIRMED!!)

[esimms86]

So you're saying we should all piss on it?

We’re already doing that re: the pricing.

Anyway, you’re welcome to piss on it while it’s still under the shrink wrap. No one will ever know.

 

[edisonbaggins]

Behind Blue Eyes is literally giving me chills

 

[MikeMonaco]

Wow, you get mail this early in the morning?

Doesn’t everyone? We normally get it between 9 and 10am…. Brenda is the best.

 

[GOS]

Doesn’t everyone? We normally get it between 9 and 10am…. Brenda is the best.

Typically, mine arrives around 2-3pm. I guess somebody has to be first.... lol

 

[Dynamic Editor]

Typically, mine arrives around 2-3pm. I guess somebody has to be first.... lol

Me too. Representation for the late-mailers!

 

[H.A.L.]

I suspect that I will be listening to the CDs as much as the Blu-Ray.

Which is why I went the expensive route with CD Japan, expressly for the SHM CDs! For whatever reasons, they just sound better
on my system.

 

[Tres Discrete]

While I agree that this box is wildly overpriced and that things like the graphic novel are completely unnecessary, I’m not sure we can dismiss the CDs as “one-and-done” listens. While the surround mix is the biggest draw for me, the 1971 SF live show is a HUGE holy grail for Who fans, not to mention all the demos and alternate takes, which in the case of the Who, are often as fascinating as the finished tracks. I suspect that I will be listening to the CDs as much as the Blu-Ray.

Funny - I am looking forward to the graphic novel to see if it explains once & for all what Pete was on about with the whole Lifehouse concept!

 

[scottm18]

Or you can just enjoy it as part of your Apple Music subscription for no additional cost.

Or not . I'd much prefer the real LOSSLESS Atmos version. Don't get me started on the difference between that & the Apple music LOSSY fake Atmos ...well..."Substitute".

Yes it's better than nothing....but with a halfway decent HT system, anyone who can't tell the Atmos difference between the Apple version and a Blu-ray version needs to have their hearing checked.

 

[DennisMabry]

Well... crap. I was away from home today and my wife went shopping, so no one was at home when UPS attempted delivery. Of course a signature is required. So now it gets to sit in a truck and won't be here until sometime Monday. Bummer!

 

[GOS]

Well... crap. I was away from home today and my wife went shopping, so no one was at home when UPS attempted delivery. Of course a signature is required. So now it gets to sit in a truck and won't be here until sometime Monday. Bummer!

I had the same signature required agenda. I went into UPS and opted out, so mine delivered without signature, yesterday.

 

[sjcorne]

Yes it's better than nothing....but with a halfway decent HT system, anyone who can't tell the Atmos difference between the Apple version and a Blu-ray version needs to have their hearing checked.

It’s pretty difficult to tell the difference on some titles, unless you start soloing specific channels (the heights in particular). Sorry you’re not a fan.

 

[privateuniverse]

CD #4 in the box includes tracks recorded over three days in March 1971 in NYC. (None of these sessions ended up on Who's Next). Leslie West (of Mountain) joined the sessions as a second guitarist. The booklet mentions that "test quad mixes" of "Behind Blue Eyes" and "Getting in Tune" (at the time called "I'm in Tune") were prepared.

According to the book the studio, The Record Plant, opened in 1968. In 1970 it became the first studio capable of mixing for quad.

 

[marpow]

results. Who set was in a seperate box. and still was damaged
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Looks like you got screwed Rickie.

 

[DennisMabry]

I had the same signature required agenda. I went into UPS and opted out, so mine delivered without signature, yesterday.

I should have done that. It is also too late to pick up locally. I'll just have to wait a little longer.

 

[marpow]

Which is why I went the expensive route with CD Japan, expressly for the SHM CDs! For whatever reasons, they just sound better
on my system.

They are better.

 

[marpow]

Wow, delivery day and people are still complaining, I don’t understand.
Mine comes from CDJapan Sept 27th and I am going to love all of it, I just know I will. So exciting and filled with joy.
The listening, the reading, the ripping, so lucky to have such a great hobby.
I know others that don’t have a hobby, and the highlight of there day is eating, what a drag.

 

[Quad Linda]

Mine showed up a couple hours ago.

In my 10 most essential albums.
My 10th copy of this. So far, German CD (Bull's eye era) is best digital mastering. IMHO, better than Japan SACD, or MCA Gold
UK LP is best analog master.

Time for some critical listening to the surround mix, unreleased tracks and a/b the album itself. an all day sucker and then some.

"I may end up spending all my money,"

 

[esimms86]

Looks like you got screwed Rickie.

He still has the Lions.

 

[mrcond]

"I may end up spending all my money,"

….but you’ll still be alive.

 

[scottm18]

It’s pretty difficult to tell the difference on some titles.

Okay so maybe that critique was a bit harsh but I listened to both in a true Atmos setup and my 5.1 setup with but with some very good components involved (Audio Research/Classe/B&W, etc) & with the Beatles titles compared it was pretty apparent. The Apple streaming version just doesn't have the highs and the lows that the true disc one does, but it certainly a whole lot cheaper admission as you said!

One thing I am bummed about though is because it's so much cheaper to put it on the streaming version rather than a disc version, the true disc versions are becoming less and less prevalent. Streaming versions outnumber disc versions by a wide margin now.