SoonerCaniac
300 Club - QQ All-Star
Wow...wow...wow...wow! :banana:
This is freakin' awesome, perhaps the best news out of the surround sound community in a LONG time (sorry KC fans). It appears Rhino is the only place offering the album at this time (EDIT: The Rhino Handmade main page says it's an exclusive release), but it's time to put my $$$ where my mouth is and pay full retail for a change to support this release. Thanks Jon for the tip about free shipping!
The Rhino website for CTA is very well done...I've never seen a site that has separate samples for the front and back channel pairs; it was fun to compare the fronts and rears to the original stereo mix. Ahhh...discreteness.
Has anyone seen the "What Is Quad" page (http://rhino.com/article/what-quad)? According to Google, it was posted only 2 hours ago! There, you can sample each channel individually! I can't help but think this page suggests additional releases are being planned...but I hope they are realistic about their sales figures. The $29.99 price seems to suggest that they are.
I'm also surprised the release date is so soon; I guess I've been numbed by the typical delays we see with surround releases (duh). I'll try not to get my hopes up given the last time I got burned (Genesis releases), but I hope Rhino is aiming for high SQ. No DVD-A is a shame...but I'll take DTS 96/24 over DD or stereo anyday!
PUMPED!
Josh
PS - The Rhino Handmade site sort of looks like the site I hoped BecauseSoundMatters would have become. We'll see...
This is freakin' awesome, perhaps the best news out of the surround sound community in a LONG time (sorry KC fans). It appears Rhino is the only place offering the album at this time (EDIT: The Rhino Handmade main page says it's an exclusive release), but it's time to put my $$$ where my mouth is and pay full retail for a change to support this release. Thanks Jon for the tip about free shipping!
The Rhino website for CTA is very well done...I've never seen a site that has separate samples for the front and back channel pairs; it was fun to compare the fronts and rears to the original stereo mix. Ahhh...discreteness.
Has anyone seen the "What Is Quad" page (http://rhino.com/article/what-quad)? According to Google, it was posted only 2 hours ago! There, you can sample each channel individually! I can't help but think this page suggests additional releases are being planned...but I hope they are realistic about their sales figures. The $29.99 price seems to suggest that they are.
I'm also surprised the release date is so soon; I guess I've been numbed by the typical delays we see with surround releases (duh). I'll try not to get my hopes up given the last time I got burned (Genesis releases), but I hope Rhino is aiming for high SQ. No DVD-A is a shame...but I'll take DTS 96/24 over DD or stereo anyday!
PUMPED!
Josh
PS - The Rhino Handmade site sort of looks like the site I hoped BecauseSoundMatters would have become. We'll see...