HiRez Poll XTC - SKYLARKING [Blu-Ray Audio (Dolby Atmos)]

[kap'n krunch]

Could we all PLEASE send our thought so SDE and DEMAND a repress without the authoring glitch?
I KNOW we can all get together and do this!
PLEASE COMPLAIN to [email protected] and ask for a repress of this!
Now , I wouldn't mind that much if I didn't LOVE this goddamn album!

 

[JediJoker]

Could we all PLEASE send our thought so SDE and DEMAND a repress without the authoring glitch?
I KNOW we can all get together and do this!
PLEASE COMPLAIN to [email protected] and ask for a repress of this!
Now , I wouldn't mind that much if I didn't LOVE this goddamn album!

What do SDE have to do with this release? The issue should be brought to the attention of the label, Ape House, or directly to Andy Partridge (deleted his Twitter) and/or Steven Wilson.

 

[popshop]

Plays without gaps on a ps5, if that's helpful to anyone.
A solid 101 out of 10. An intense experience!

 

[kap'n krunch]

What do SDE have to do with this release? The issue should be brought to the attention of the label, Ape House, or directly to Andy Partridge (deleted his Twitter) and/or Steven Wilson.

Well, Ape House too cause I guess SW would have nothing to do with the authoring, it's only a couple of quick emails, I know if we all get together, we could do something instead of letting them give us shitty authored discs!

 

[RustyM]

I hate it when this happens... on my mighty OPPO BDP-103D , both (up until now) , the first seconds are cut off on 1000 Umbrellas and Season Cycle (and Earn Enough for us..., will I have to return it and ask for a repress???

I did QC in the previous 5.1 BD and it was something that was VERY IMPORTANT, so QC and the people who did the authoring were not very thorough!

Does it happen to anyone else here?

Hey Kap'n. Sorry to hear about your playback issues. I have a BDP-S6200. After reading your post, I went back and played Skylarking again and 1000 Umbrellas, Season Cycle, and Earn Enough For Us started from the beginning on the Blu-Ray and the CD. As JediJoker said, this is an Ape House product. I recently had playback issues on a few Atmos BD's and after much troubleshooting and help from QQ members, the issue was my equipment. In the end, I played around with audio playback options and found resolve by changing one setting. Hope this is all you need to do to find the fix. Wish I could be more helpful and wish you the best in getting your issue resolved. The moderators may want to start a new thread to clean up this poll. I'll be following this to see how this issue is resolved.

 

[Dynamic Editor]

Yeah, I'm having issues with the start cutting off, too. There's this little stutter at the start of each song's stream, and I can see my STR-DN1080 do this little bit where it tries its best to find the song's stream as it starts. I don't know if there's something I can do about it to avoid it, but I've never had this issue before with a surround sound disc.

Definitely worth knocking a point off for. I'd imagine someone could rip it with MakeMKV and tell what was done wrong.

 

[HenkG]

Without words this mix 10/10

 

[Wagonmaster_91]

I am not having the problem on my Oppo UDP-203 that Cap & Dyn Ed are reporting. Mine is playing the ATMOS and the DTS-MA with no glitches. So far, it sounds great. I'll leave a vote soon.

 

[AYanguas]

I don’t find the start cutting off that @kap'n krunch and @Dynamic Editor are finding.

I play with Oppo 203 and Dune HD PRO network players from Blu-ray ripped on PC Server ISO image (MakeMKV+ImgBurn)

Actually, the two concatenated occurrences of gapless songs are authored in single files. That will result in NO Problem for the second gapless song in each file.

00000.M2TS : 1-Summer's Cauldron / 2-Grass

00009.M2TS : 5-Ballet For A Rainy %ay / 6-1000 Umbrellas

All the rest of songs have their individual M2TS files than can cause the hdmi sync to lost the initial sound seconds.

BUT, either the initial music is low enough or there is a small silence at the beginning of the songs, I hardly perceive any start cutting off in any song.

This problem Do arise in other Blu-rays, but not too much in this one. (for me).

Really, if the authoring tecnnician has noticed that there are two occurrences of gapless songs (mentioned above) and have put them in single M2TS file, All the rest of songs could have received the same treatment and have all been put in the same single file.


About the mix and musicality, this version is Exceptional.

I really like to A-B switch from the Atmos mix to the Instrumental Atmos mix. Listening the whole Instrumental Atmos mix version you really notice much better the great amount of sound layers and musical arrangements, that may be masked when you listen the whole mix with vocals.

A really good Steven Wilson enhancement over the previous 5.1 Mix.

I vote for a 10

 

[shedsoundsmedia]

10/10 mix
5/10 presentation / content

In this video I was hoping to briefly summarize my thoughts on the new 2024 Dolby Atmos mix of "Skylarking" by XTC. One of the strengths of this series has always been the 'boxed set on a disc' approach but this release dispenses of that and I feel you ought to be informed before you decide to sell the old one to upgrade.