Listening to Now (In Surround) - Volume 2

New in the mailbox to day:



It sounds like the numbers tell you - excellent, DR from 14-18 :banana::banana:

I love those songs

Spock said:

New in the mailbox to day:

It sounds like the numbers tell you - excellent, DR from 14-18 :banana::banana:

I love those songs

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And...another title I've never heard of...or artist for that matter.

Simon A said:

Waylon Jennings ‎– Lonesome, On'ry & Mean (Q8)

One of my very favourite Quad mix. Some tracks feature as many as five guitar players. Great album with some fantastic songs are amazing guitar playing. Freedom To Stay and Pretend I Never Happened are beautiful songs.

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FWIW Waylon has a concert--Austin City Limits available .

No doubt a great performance , not sure what the dts dvd is like though. Saw it available as a cd/dvd for a half decent price locally approx 3 yrs. ago . (Shoulda picked it up !! )






-regrets, fizzy

GOS said:

And...another title I've never heard of...or artist for that matter.

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Get it! I think you will like the music, and it sounds very, very good!

Spock said:

Get it! I think you will like the music, and it sounds very, very good!

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Just played a couple tunes on youtube, and yeah. I like it a lot. I see they wrote the song We Belong (Benatar hit)

fizzywiggs41 said:

Simon


How's that like Namlook and in a way ? Any comparisons ? Electronic comparisons ?

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Pete has released many collaborations over the years and this one is a really smooth and quiet Ambient album. Synth pads mostly with simple melodies. No major arpeggiator workouts (I love those though). You'll be hearing it for yourself soon, so you'll be able to post your thoughts on it here...

kap'n krunch said:

I really like "Radical Action", although the person who mixed it , either had a "flawed setup" or has a different definition of "Surround" cause they had to tweak the rears (jack them up) for this release to make it sound ..."normal"...I DO agree with his POV of mixing the drums all around you, which is the opposite to Jakko's (which is make them all ONE kit, but that was only in Stereo, haven't heard any of his mixes from the 3 drumset monster in MCH, though)

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I LOVE the live concert video on RADICAL ACTION -- and this from someone who really lost interest in KC after RED. Great video with matching surround that nicely fits!

That said, I'll deduct a point for the glaring distraction of the flute player Mel's obvious wig 8'). But we luv ya still, Mel

Quads by Mountain and West, Bruce, and Laing


Bob D'Orleans did the Mountain's and Don Young the West, Bruce, and Laing's kinda like Don Young's quad mixes a bit better.








DTS-HDS , Brad Miller' s dts cd outfit was persuing a Mountain title for release on DTS CD ! I wonder which one though ?

Woulda been boss to get .

fizzywiggs41 said:

Quads by Mountain and West, Bruce, and Laing


Bob D'Orleans did the Mountain's and Don Young the West, Bruce, and Laing's kinda like Don Young's quad mixes a bit better.




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DTS-HDS , Brad Miller' s dts cd outfit was persuing a Mountain title for release on DTS CD ! I wonder which one though ?

Woulda been boss to get .

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Don Young is or rather was (RIP) DA MAN!
he was Columbia's go to Rock Quad mixer (and 2nd only to Larry Keyes in the CBS Quad engineering stakes in my eyes!) he did so many great Quads incl Poco's Cantamos (i bet he did the superb Seven mix as well but sadly uncredited), the REO Speedwagons, Rick Derringers All American Boy, Bob Dylan's Desire, EWF Head To The Sky, Dave Mason, the Jeff Beck Groups, the Mac Davis's, the Janis Ians, the Johnny Winters, the Edgar Winter Groups, the Billy Joels..

Jimmy Witherspoon ‎– Love Is A Five Letter Word (Q8)

Great mix all around with a nice present bass sound. The only thing that some may dislike is the fact that the drums are mostly spread out between LF and LR with the bass drum in FR. Background vocals are mostly in the rears. The music is a top notch mix of Soul/Blues with a light taste of Funk.

Highly recommended!

First listen to the 5.1 Surround Sound SACD of "Heathen" by David Bowie.
If the first track ("Sunday") is any indication, this will be a magnificent disc!

rtbluray said:

First listen to the 5.1 Surround Sound SACD of "Heathen" by David Bowie.
If the first track ("Sunday") is any indication, this will be a magnificent disc!

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I will be...

Mr. Eric Johnson, Ah, Ah, Ah Via Musicom DVD-A 5.1 MLP 96k 24b

rtbluray said:

First listen to the 5.1 Surround Sound SACD of "Heathen" by David Bowie.
If the first track ("Sunday") is any indication, this will be a magnificent disc!

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yup, I just picked this disc up last week for the first time also

Dredg-El Cielo. SACD 5.1

Aerosmith-Live In Japan. Blu-ray 5.1


Pretty good performance for this band and yes kinda discrete.

Genesis-Seconds Out. DVD 5.1


One of their best live albums (sans Peter ) And a very good surround mix . Phil Collins vocals in top form .

Poncho Sanchez - Conga Blue [SACD multichannel]

Abacab in DTS 24/96 from the dvd

fizzywiggs41 said:

Genesis-Seconds Out. DVD 5.1


One of their best live albums (sans Peter ) And a very good surround mix . Phil Collins vocals in top form .




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I love this DVD but I have several peeves...first, it's not discrete, you can not pinpoint instruments-don't know how they did it though; then they cut out the spoken "Supper's Ready" by Phil before the song, and most annoyingly, f*ckin' Tony "nEurotic" Banks finally managed to "mix out" Steve's haunting gtr in IKWIL and other songs to almost inaudible levels....