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Beck - Sea Change (Both)
Pink Floyd - DSOTM (DVD-A)
Talking Heads - Speaking In Tounges (Actually all of them) (DVD-A)
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi (DVD-A)
Beethoven - String Quartets Vol. 1 by Tacet (and ALL other Tacet Real Surround Productions) (DVD-A)
Depeche Mode - Ultra (SACD)
Queen - ANATO (dts & DVD-A)
Beck - Guero (DVD-A)
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms (SACD)
Eagles - Hotel California (DVD-A)

Man, looking at my list makes me feel I've been lurking this forum for far too long...
 
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I can't come up with a list of favorite 10, but I can summarize what has been voted so far. I didn't worry about format preferences. You will have to search the thread for that info. I have this in a sortable HTML table, but can't insert HTML into a post; so this will have to do:


Votes|Artist|Title
18|Pink Floyd| Dark Side Of The Moon
13|Beatles| Love
8|Pocrupine Tree| Fear Of A Blank Planet
6|Porcupine Tree| Lightbulb Sun
6|Deep Purple| Machine Head
6|Porcupine| Tree Stupid Dream
5|Talking Heads| Remain In Light
4|ELP| Brain Salad Surgery
4|Dire Straits| Brothers In Arms
4|Steely Dan| Gaucho
4|America| Homecoming
4|Jeff Beck| Blow By Blow
3|Metallica| Black Album
3|Eagles| Hotel California
3|The Who| Tommy
3|Pink Floyd| Wish You Were Here
3|O'Jays| Ship Ahoy
3|Roxy Music| Avalon
3|Elton John| Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
3|Temptations| All Directions
3|Donald Fagen| Nightfly
3|Richard Thompson| Rumor And Sigh
2|R.E.M.| In Time: The Best Of R.E.M. 1988-2003
2|David Bowie| Young Americans
2|Bjork| Vespertine
2|Depeche Mode| Ultra
2|Diana Krall| Love Scenes
2|Doors| Best
2|Doors| Perception Box
2|Edgar Winter Group| They Only Come Out At Night
2|Elton John| Honky Chateau
2|Flaming Lips| Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
2|Fleetwood Mac| Rumours
2|Foreigner| 4
2|Grateful Dead| American Beauty
2|Harry Nilsson| Nilsson Schmilsson
2|Herbie Hancock| Head Hunters
2|R.E.M| Automatic For The People
2|Moody Blues| Days Of Future Passed
2|Pere Ubu| Modern Dance
2|Queen| A Night At The Opera
2|Black Sabbath| Paranoid
2|Herbie Hancock| Gershwins World
2|Seal| Best: 1991-2004
2|Toy Matinee| S/T
2|David Crosby| If I Could Only Remember My Name
2|Bob Dylan| Blood On The Tracks
2|Carole King| Tapestry
2|Crowded House| Crowded House
2|James Taylor| Gorilla
1|Yellow Note| We Love Everybody... You'Re Next
1|Boz Scaggs| Dig
1|Eagles| On The Border
1|Elton John| Tumbleweed Connection
1|Eric Clapton| 461 Ocean Boulevard
1|Fourplay| S/T
1|Frank Zappa| Quadaudiophiliac
1|Dredg| El Cielo
1|Genesis| Tha Lamb...
1|Goldfrapp| Supernature
1|Graham Nash| Songs For Beginners
1|Graham Nash| Songs For Survivors
1|Jackson Browne| Late For The Sky
1|James Taylor| Flag
1|James Taylor| Hourglass
1|Jethro Tull| War Child
1|John Mcewan & Jimmiy Ibbotson| Nitty Gritty Sound
1|Keb' Mo'| Just Like You
1|Linda Ronstadt| What'S New
1|Macy Gray| Trouble With Being Myself
1|Moody Blues| Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
1|Moody Blues| Question Of Balance
1|Neil Young| Harvest
1|Nicklecreek| This Side
1|Doobie Brothers| What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
1|Weather Report| Mysterious Traveller
1|Tom Cochrane & Red Rider| Trapeze
1|The Guess Who| Greatest Hits II
1|The Guess Who| Greatest Hits I
1|The Allman Brothers| At Fillmore East
1|Talking Heads| Speaking In Tongues
1|Talking Heads| Naked
1|Talking Heads| Fear Of Music
1|Talking Heads| Brick Box
1|T-Rex| Electric Warrior
1|Sly & The Family Stone| Greatest Hits
1|Seal First| S/T
1|Scorpions| Moment Of Glory
1|Roy Orbison| Black And White Night Both
1|Rick Wakeman| King Arthur
1|Ray Charles| Genius Loves Company
1|R.E.M| Out Of Time
1|Porcupine Tree| In Absentia
1|Porcupine Tree| Deadwing
1|Pink Floyd| Atom Heart Mother
1|Peter Gabriel| Play The Videos
1|Genesis| 1976-1982 Box
1|Alice Cooper| Welcome To My Nightmare
1|Donald Fagen| Morph The Cat
1|Diana Ross & The Supremes| Greatest Hits
1|Diana Krall| The Girl In The Other Room
1|Depeche Mode| Violator
1|David Bowie| Ziggy Stardust
1|David Bowie| Reality
1|Cornelius| 5.1
1|Chicago| Chicago VII
1|Carpenters| Now And Then
1|Carpenters| Singles 1969-1981
1|Carly Simon| No Secrets
1|Cardigans| Long Gone Before Daylight
1|Bucky Pizzarelli| Swing Live
1|Bjork| Homogenic
1|Bjork| Debut
1|Billy Joel| Turnstiles
1|Billy Cobham| Spectrum
1|Bette Midler| The Divine Miss M
1|Beck| Sea Change
1|Bass Communion| Loss
1|Barbra Streisand| Butterfly
1|Alison Krauss And Union Station| Live
Votes|Artist|Title

Nice job on the list! (y)
 
No order and subject to change...

1. Steely Dan - Gaucho (SACD)
2. Donald Fagen - The Nightfly (DVD-A)
3. Beck - Sea Change (DVD-A)
4. Grover Washington Jr. - Winelight (DVD-A)
5. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon (SACD & DVD-A)
6. Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues (DVD-A)
7. Elton John - Honky Chateau (SACD)
8. Seal - Best Of 1991-2004 (DVD-A) [acoustic]
9. Joe Satriani - Strange Beautiful Music (SACD)
10. Ray Charles - Genius Loves Company (Superdisc)

Ouch...choosing only 10 hurt more than I expected it to.

Dan
 
Here is my list, not in order of best to worst or worst to best:

1. Beatles, Love (DVD-A)
2. Alan Parsons, A Valid Path, (DualDisc - Dolby Digital)
3. Queen, A Night At The Opera, (DVD-A)
4. Linkin Park, [Reanimation], ( DVD=A)
5. Chicago, Chicago, (DVD-A)
6. The Moody Blues, Days of Future Past, (dts-CD)
7. Faith Hill, Cry, (DVD-A)
8. Renee Fleming, Renee Fleming, (DVD-A)
9. Dire Straits, Brothers In Arms, (DualDisc – DVD-A)
10. John McEuen and Jimmy Ibbotson, Nitty Gritty Surround, (DVD-A)
 
My favs:

Violator/ Depeche Mode
Avalon/ Roxy Music
LOVE/ The Beatles
Stupid Dream/ Porcupine Tree
Dark Side of the Moon/ Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here/ Pink Floyd
The Lamb/ Genesis
Brain Salad Surgery/ ELP
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road/ Elton John
Six Wives Of Henry The Eighth/ Rick Wakeman

Looking forward to finally hearing In The Court Of The Crimson King. :D
 
The Incident - Porcupine Tree (dvdv)
Stupid dream - Porcupine Tree (dvda)
Lightbulb sun - Porcupine Tree (dvda)
Deadwing - Porcupine Tree (dvda)
Manafon - David Sylvian (dvdv)
Together we're Stranger - No man (dvda)
Schoolyard Ghosts - No Man (dvda)
Vespertine - Bjork (sacd)
Medulla - Bjork (sacd)
Live NYC - Blackfield (dvd)
 
Hello!

In No Particular Order, My 10-

1- Peter Gabriel- "UP"
2- Porcupine Tree- "IN ABSENTIA"
3- Graham Nash- "SONGS FOR SURVIVORS"
4- Rush- "SNAKES AND ARROWS"
5- No-Man- "SCHOOLYARD GHOSTS"
6- David Bowie- "HEATHEN"
7- Steven Wilson- "INSURGENTES"
8- Frankie Goes To Hollywood- "RAGE HARD...."
9- Kitaro- "THE SACRED JOURNEY OF KU-KAI"
10- Elton John- "GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD"

Thank You.
 
Elton John Madman Across The Water SACD
Elton John Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy SACD
Beatles LOVE DVD-A
Chicago II DVD-A
Eagles Hotel California DVD-A
Doors LA Woman DVD-A
Pink Floyd Dark Side SACD
T. Rex Electric Warrior SACD
Billy Joel The Stranger SACD
Billy Joel 52nd Street SACD
 
Based on the amount of times I've listened to them:

Deadwing - Porcupine Tree (DVDA)
Guero - Beck (DVDA)
Lightbulb Sun - Porcupine Tree (DVDA)
The Incident - Porcupine Tree (DVD DTS)
Red - King Crimson (DVDA)
Avalon - Roxy Music (SACD)
Remain In Light - Talking Heads (DVDA)
Minimum-Maximum - Kraftwerk (SACD)
Ten Summoner's Tales - Sting (DTS CD)
A Valid Path - Alan Parsons (DVD DTS)
 
PT-Lightbulb Sun
PT-Stupid Dream
PT-FOABP
Beatles-Love
Roy Orbison-Black and White Night
Elton John-Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Bonnie Raitt-Nick of Time
King Crimson-Red
Steely Dan-Gaucho

Reserving #10 for "The Incident" when/if ....
 
Its funny how the new DVDA of Red is showing up in these top ten lists already. I think it sounds superb and find myself playing it a lot, loud. I'm waiting for Lizard and the hype is building up my expectations. This is going to be a superb series.
 
Here are my 10 favorite surround mixes, regardless of format.

NERD - In Search Of...
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (Alan Parsons Mix)
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Billy Joel - The Stranger
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
O'Jays - Ship Ahoy
Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn
Four Tops - Main Street People
RPWL - World Through My Eyes
Average White Band - Average White Band (Quad Mix)
 
Its funny how the new DVDA of Red is showing up in these top ten lists already. I think it sounds superb and find myself playing it a lot, loud. I'm waiting for Lizard and the hype is building up my expectations. This is going to be a superb series.

I have a feeling that many of the KC discs would enter the top tens I know RED would appear in mine though i am not sure what i would excise to add it.
these lists can only really be a snapshot of teh time they were created. My top 10 would probably change from day to day dependoiing on the weather, which way the wind blows etc..
 
Here are ten I never put back on the shelf.

Zepher-Voices Unbound AIX DVD-A
Bela Fleck-Blue Grass Sessions DVD-A
The Beatles-Love DVD-A
The Manhattan Transfer-Vibrate SACD
Chicago-Chicago DVD-A
James Taylor-Hourglass SACD
Chamber Music Palisades-Shostakovich Piano Quintet AIX DVD-A
Roy Orbison-Black&White DVD-A
Bucky Pizzarelli-Swing Live DVD-A
Lyle Lovett-Joshua Judges Ruth DTS

Dwight
 
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It would be nice to have a thread of the top ten classical surround discs
 
It would be nice to have a thread of the top ten classical surround discs

For me the list would be dominated by TACET and AIX, although at the top there would be at least a couple Vanguard Classics titles, such as Bach the Brandenburg Concertos or Handel's Water music. After that, mostly any title by TACET and AIX, and maybe one or two by DTS entertainment and Silverline, and maybe a Pentatone if I'm in a good mood (pentatone quad mixes are of the "nonaggressive" type).

BTW there is such a list here http://www.classicalcdreview.com/sssurroundhall.html
 
For me the list would be dominated by TACET and AIX, although at the top there would be at least a couple Vanguard Classics titles, such as Bach the Brandenburg Concertos or Handel's Water music. After that, mostly any title by TACET and AIX, and maybe one or two by DTS entertainment and Silverline, and maybe a Pentatone if I'm in a good mood (pentatone quad mixes are of the "nonaggressive" type).
:mad:@:None of the above, expect for a Pentatone or two. Both TaceT and AIX, imho, make great recordings but, with rare exception, they do not have the performers to compete artistically. As for the "old stuff" from Vanguard/dts/Silverline, they have some decent performances but, generally, the sound is not as smooth, deep and detailed as modern recordings. I will not argue the immersive vs. non-aggressive issue although that does affect my affections.

Strange bunch.
 
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