had a v.brief tryout just now.
don't hang on these ramblings, tbh i'm too tired, fed up/bunged up with hayfever (which i'm seemingly suffering for the first time ever in 41 years on planet earth.. just another thing fast-tracking me from middle age to decrepitude) to playthrough it more than once now.
anyway, somehow unusually/unexpectedly thought maybe i preferred the Dolby Digital to the DTS 5.1 just flicking between the two streams.. but need to just check that's not some reverse psychology placebo voodoo power of QQ suggestion playing tricks with my mind! i'll run it thru the computer when i get a chance and see if there really is any difference between the DD & DTS (and just what's going on in each channel of each codec).. you never know.
on 1st listen the mix seems a bit unadventurous, dense and kinda double stereo-ish for such material.
musically i love it and this kind of thing makes a refreshing change to hear in surround from the usual Classic Rock & old Quad stuff.. but the surround mix
seems a bit dark and cludgey, it never really opens up like my favourite surround music mixes do.. bits stick out here and there.. just like the Paul Draper mix things appear to pop out of the rear channels and give you a little "ooh" moment but a lot of it sounds like its all going on everywhere else too, so its a bit of an attack of the grey lanterns on the old ears at times!
i need to give it some proper listening time when i get over my middle-aged Saturday night hayfever
but so far a bit underwhelmed and would agree with comments of others here and elsewhere so far who have said the surround is somewhat lacking. shame, i was looking forward to this. still i'll give it another shot and a fair crack of the whip when I'm less sniffly.. achoo!