Listening to now (In Surround!)

[LizardKing]

Magenta - Seven - Dullby DVD
ELO - S/T - DTS DVD
Magenta - Chameleon - Dullby DVD
Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion - SACD
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother - SQ*Final DVD-A
Billy Joel - The Stranger - SACD
Gentle Giant - Free Hand/ Interview - DTS DVD

[leevitalone1]

Donald Fagen - Kamakiriad (DVD A)

This album is sooo overlooked! The surround mix is terrific. My opinion is it's better than most SD's or Mr Fagens work.
Just the imaging alone in MC is better than most I've heard. Waste of materials in stereo.

[leevitalone1]

Thanks to Filper
Metallica
Lighbulb sun
Pet sounds
my time to listen is ending, spring is early and I gotta go back to work, this year as
just an advisor, will never retire.

[Quad Linda]

Another unseasonably warm day in Chi. DVD-A's & the top down.

A Night at the Opera - Freddie Mercury & the Marx bros.
Soft Parade (Perception) - Doors
Ringo 5.1
Electric Worrier - T Rex
You're da 1 - Paul Simon
Suppernatural - Santana
Abraxas - Santana DTS CD
El Capitan et Moi - Roach Brothers

[oxenholme]

Why won't it let me post the image?????????

[Quad Linda]

Summer in March!

Reptile - Eric Clapton
Passion Dance - Herb Alpert DTS CD
Get Yer Tubes Tied (Remake) - Mike Oldfield
CTA - Quadio DTS
Chicago V
Fly Like an Eagle - Steve Miller DTS CD
Aqualung (Quad mix) - Gerald Bostock DVD

[leevitalone1]

Tapesty-Carol King 1st time heard in Mc and It's all new again
WYWH - SACD MC

[LizardKing]

Summer in March!

.........
Passion Dance - Herb Alpert DTS CD -Waiting to get this one.....
Get Yer Tubes Tied (Remake) - Mike Oldfield - Haha ---2003 I presume?
CTA - Quadio DTS - You play this loooooootttttttttsssssssssss
......

I'm listening to:
Steely Dan - Gaucho (first time I've heard the) - DVD-A
Mark Knockler - Sailing to Philly - DVD-A
- Shangri-la - SACD
Celebrating the music of Weather Report - DVD-A
Rush - Farewell TK/ Fly By Night - DVD-A
Gentle Giant - Free Hand - LS/RS swapped Blu-ray
King Crimson - In the wake - DVD-A
- Starless & Bible - DVD-A
ELO - DVD DTS (love 1st Movement)

[Quad Linda]

Yes, LizardKing, it was the 2003. The original Tubal Ligation is an SACD. Yes, I listen to CTA often. Too bad it's lossy. Although they've done better albums, this is a strong one. Beginnings is my fave song ever. Wish they released Chicago X on DVD-A. When it was new, I played the Q8 in my car constantly. I need to bring those Knopfler DVD-A's tomorrow. I've had them for years and have never heard them. As Eric Bibb sings, "I ended up with too much stuff."

Only the beginning of what I want to feel forever...

[wavelength]

Love - Beatles dvda
Discipline - King Crimson dvda
Lush Life - Joe Henderson sacd

Just got my 15 year-old arcams back from the shop - had the boards re-soldered; switches and knobs cleaned. Lovin' it.

[LizardKing]

Yes, LizardKing, it was the 2003. The original Tubal Ligation is an SACD.

FYI - I prefer the Tubal Ligation Quad SACD. ...

Yes, I listen to CTA often. Too bad it's lossy. Although they've done better albums, this is a strong one. Beginnings is my fave song ever. Wish they released Chicago X on DVD-A. When it was new, I played the Q8 in my car constantly.

I'd love to hear "If you leave me now" - uber plush.....

[wavelength]

I need to bring those Knopfler DVD-A's tomorrow.

Sailing to Philly - is very good!!

[Quad Linda]

I prefer the Quad Tubular Bells, as well. My car fi will only play that as a CD, not SACD. So, I pulled out the 2003.

If You Leave Me Now sounds great in Quad, although the only track I like less on Chicago X is Hope for Love. You Get It Up, Scrapbook and Mama Mama are more my style. If You Leave Me hit #1.

OK, here's my DVD-A playlist for another 80 degree day with the top down tomorrow:

Shangri-La & Sailing to Philly - The Sultan of Swing
Going Home - Eric Clapton
Songs for Beginners - Graham Nash
If I Wasn't so Stoned, I Could Remember - David Crosby
Halloween - Francis Vincent Zappa
The Nightfly - Donald Fagen

With jazz and conversation, from the foot of Mt. Belzoni.

FYI - I prefer the Tubal Ligation Quad SACD. ...



I'd love to hear "If you leave me now" - uber plush.....

[wavelength]

If I Wasn't so Stoned, I Could Remember - David Crosby

That is hilarious!!

[staygroovy]

Sunday Jazz:

"In Modern Times" Spyro Gyra [SACD]

Very convincing surround mix, even if the music is a bit on the easy-listening side.

"Seven Steps To Heaven" Miles Davis [SACD] {AP 3-channel mix}

Leaves me gagging.... such brilliance and restraint. To think that this was made almost 50 years ago makes it even more stunning.

[elmer]

Alison Krauss & Union Station Live - SACD
Zappa - DTS DVD - home brew containing upmixes of Imaginary Diseases (FZ Big Band live/Grand Wazoo era) and my all time fave Roxy & Elsewhere - plus a straight extraction of Quadiophiliac.

- sorry Quad Linda, no convertible or DVD A - just the poor man's open sunroof and SACD car player. Still letting my freak flag fly though

[doppelbock]

Genesis - Foxtrot

[Quad Linda]

DVD-A's:
Another Stoney Evening - Crosby/Nash
British are Coming - (Strata) Various
Foreigner
Spectrum - Cobly Bilham
Running on Empty - Brown(e) Jackson
Breezin - George Benson
Hotel California - Eagles

[Quad Linda]

Bridge Over Troubled Water - Tom & Jerry SQ
16 Greatest - Grassroots QS
Ship Ahoy - O'Jays SACD 5.1
They Lost Their Heads - Henry VIII & Rick Wakeman SQ
On the Border - Eagles CD-4
Colors of the Day - Suite Judy Blue Eyes CD-4

[Quad Linda]

All DVD-A, except Gerald Bostock

Last Waltz - Band with everybody and their uncle
Riding With the King - BB King & Eric Clapton
Music from Big Pink - Band
The Game - God Save Freddie Mercury
Over the Edge & Back- Mickey Hart
Little Criminals - Randy Newman
Live at Carnegie Hall 1970 (Part of UK expanded Stand Up) - Jethro Tull DVD-V

[watsontr]

All DVD-A, except Gerald Bostock

Live at Carnegie Hall 1970 (Part of UK expanded Stand Up) - Jethro Tull DVD-V

What's you opinion on this one QL? I liked what I'd heard before of this in stereo. Is the surround version worth seeking out? Pity there is no surround version of Benefit as that is my favourite
Tom

[Quad Linda]

It's worth owning. Stand Up is my favorite Tull. Benefit is damn good, too. They need to re-do Benefit, since it's fidelity never was great. It was my first Tull. I'd love to see Living in the Past re-done, but it's bits and pieces, so gathering the masters would be a chore in itself. I'll stick by the MoFi 2 Gold CD as being the best Living. Carnegie uses all three front channels. Good bonus tracks, too. BBC stuff and singles. Disc 2 is the 2ch Carnegie. Great performance, decent surround sound, good (not great) fidelity, nice separation. Get it.

What's you opinion on this one QL? I liked what I'd heard before of this in stereo. Is the surround version worth seeking out? Pity there is no surround version of Benefit as that is my favourite
Tom

[watsontr]

Thanks Linda. Pretty much what I wanted to hear. Benefit (named my first band after that one) has always been my favourite closely followed by Living in the Past and Songs from the Wood. I agree with your assessment of the sound quality as well. A bit of remixing is warranted too I think to remove some of early 70s excesses found therein or in the very least tone them down a little. I find the feedback in "Time for Everything" almost jarring now. Just a reduction in the amplitude of the feedback would be welcome
Tom

[watsontr]

Songs for Beginners - Graham Nash
Mozart Symphony No 40 - Herbet von Karajan
Lilium - Short Stories

[Quad Linda]

Living in the Past is my second favorite Tull, closely behind Stand Up. The live tracks, including the added ones on the MoFi 2 CD version, have always left me cold. Live Tull in person is Fantastic, though their live recordings tend not to move me. Benefit would be my third favorite. Obviously, I love the early (second?) period best. BTW: if you dig Ian's flute work, be sure to check out Rahsaan Roland Kirk, who authored "Serenade to a Cuckoo." Kirk is an obsession of mine. He also guested on Joni Mitchell's "For Free." He was able to play multiple woodwinds simultaneously, utilizing a circular breathing method. Kirk clearly influenced Ian.

I recently read some of recording engineer John Burns' comments on the sound of Aqualung, which were included in the 40th Anniversary box's book. Referring to Aqualung: "Ian wanted everything dry. ... After Benefit, which was quite 'swimmy' (reverberant) he wanted the backing track to be dead and dry as a dodo. There was a certain amount of echo on the vocals and guitar (on Aqualung.)"

Benefit begins with "With You There," which is as bouncy as a racquetball court. Yet, it is engaging, and in my estimation, it works. The best sounding Benefit is the UK import LP, which I sadly traded in when I acquired the CD. It has "Alive and Well and Living In," instead of "Teacher," which is included on the US version. Even that pressing leaves much to be desired sonically. I sense that Benefit is mostly forgotten by those other than hard core Tull fans. Still, in my mind, it is THE prime candidate for remastering. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

Sorry to have taken the discussion off topic.

Thanks Linda. Pretty much what I wanted to hear. Benefit (named my first band after that one) has always been my favourite closely followed by Living in the Past and Songs from the Wood. I agree with your assessment of the sound quality as well. A bit of remixing is warranted too I think to remove some of early 70s excesses found therein or in the very least tone them down a little. I find the feedback in "Time for Everything" almost jarring now. Just a reduction in the amplitude of the feedback would be welcome
Tom