Listening to Now (In Surround) - Volume 2

[Clint Eastwood]

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Southern Surroundings on blu ray in 5.1
...up next
Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair on blu ray in 5.1

Tell Petey I said hello

 

[Tornado Red]

Will do Clint....the boys usually get sent out of the room for TFF...Everybody Wants To Rule The World is hitting peaks of 102db and I really should turn it down...maybe after this song

 

[J. PUPSTER]

JP, this was the version highly recommended to me and it's still available from CDJapan for roughly $24.

BTW, it's 5.1 NOT 3.0 as indicated in CDJapan's description: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/SICP-10088?s_ssid=e3faa5c3d6c76cba8

Excellent disc and very discrete!

Thanks for the info - ordered

 

[marpow]

OK, this music is really square man, but lots of nice discrete country music, guitars and pedal steel. Dottie West 4.0 from DV.

 

[4-earredwonder]

OK, this music is really square man, but lots of nice discrete country music, guitars and pedal steel. Dottie West 4.0 from DV.

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From DEATH METAL to Dottie, Ronnie and Percy ...... talk about a 180, Markie?

 

[marpow]

Listening now to Steve Miller-The Joker in 4.0, PCM 24/96.

 

[marpow]

Listening now to Aerosmith Rocks, 4.0. Clippity Clop.

 

[Frogmort]

 

[marpow]

Listening now to the brand new 5.1 Japanese SACD, Billy Joel-The Stranger.
H'mm, not a mindblower in surround, kind of weak to be honest. Edit: I realized my rears where turned down a bit much from a previous listen, better now.

 

[sjcorne]

H'mm, not a mindblower in surround, kind of weak to be honest.

Well, after Rocks any modern surround mix might seem tame! As you say it is a rather tame 5.1, which is generally what you get on those old Sony Single-Layer Multichannel discs (with a few exceptions). Hard center channel vocals with overdubbed vocals through the phantom center, backing vocals mostly in the rears, along with some keys and rhythm guitar back there. Not a Columbia four-corner quad mix, but definitely real surround. It's one of the better Sony titles if you ask me...

 

[marpow]

Well, after Rocks any modern surround mix might seem tame! As you say it is a rather tame 5.1, which is generally what you get on those old Sony Single-Layer Multichannel discs (with a few exceptions). Hard center channel vocals with overdubbed vocals through the phantom center, backing vocals mostly in the rears, along with some keys and rhythm guitar back there. Not a Columbia four-corner quad mix, but definitely real surround. It's one of the better Sony titles if you ask me...

Your statement pretty much nails it, my ears where trying to hear the quality of the 4.0's and I was having trouble, probably should have listened first. This Billy Joel disc is all over the place one song vocals dead center, the next in the rears (it was the track where he sings with a lot of background vocals) it's good, different. Actually now that my brain and ears have synced, it's much better.

 

[marpow]

Last one for the night, before bed. Steven Wilson-The Bone 5.1 BD-A, PCM 24/96. Listening in my Audessy mode with no corrections. I really like this disc. Listening at 40db a little loud before bed but sounds so great.

 

[Mesozoic Mike]

XTC - Black Sea

 

[beerking]

Linda Ronstadt & The Nelson Riddle Orchestra
What's New

Just to ease me into this damp Wednesday morning here in South Of the River Thames.

Discogs Info:
https://www.discogs.com/Linda-Ronstadt-The-Nelson-Riddle-Orchestra-Whats-New/release/8393731

 

[svengaleekie]

Steve Hackett - The Night Siren Thought I'd dig this one out as I hadn't listened to it in a while. The bass is over the top, I had to turn the sub down by 4db. I went back through the forum to find comments made on it's release and many said the same, the surround mix is not too bad but there is a definite 'Murky' sound to it. The music's good but I'm not keen on Steve's voice. Having said all that I do have his new release on pre-order, hoping for the best!

 

[beerking]

Here is one that doesn't get much of a mention:

David Gray
A New Day at Midnight.
DVD-A

 

[svengaleekie]

Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans 5.1 LPCM Blu-ray
"and I do think very well"

 

[fizzywiggs41]

oh that is certainly a big typo!

PCQ-32847 is
Aerosmith "Get Your Wings".

the other catalogue number,
PCQ-33234 is
Andy Williams "You Lay So Easy On My Mind".

Yesterday I did not have my Quad Inc catalogue to verify the # and see if it belonged to another , so good work .

as I also checked the # listings in chronological order.

BIG TYPO !

Andy Williams does Aerosmith .

 

[fizzywiggs41]

Listening now to Aerosmith Rocks, 4.0. Clippity Clop.

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Excellent quad mixing on that track.

Also love the hard core , "Rats In The Cellar "



Lets cross our fingers , Sony Japan does it up nice for us.

 

[J. PUPSTER]

Excellent sounding SACD (VG rear channel action) - Still available at reasonable prices!