My box set turned up this afternoon and although I have a large pile of other music in surround to listen to I thought I'd give it a go. Having read a few other peoples comments I couldn't halt the order after it had been sent, but I thought well I'll be open minded.
Oh dear, where is the surround? where is the mix? This makes the worst of the Silverline look Ok! Its in Dulby to start with, reports 5.1, but it sounds like stereo with some front bleed into the rear speakers, its pure CR*P :flame I only bought the box set to get the surround, and as the previous Steven Wilson one's have been so good I thought they would at least make a good attempt to replicate his good works. But sadly no
The person who did the "5.1 Surround Mix" really should have listened to some proper surround mixes before embarking on this. So Opeth if you're going to have anymore surround mixes done, get Steven Wilson to do them or don't bother releasing them.
I feel I have been taken for a ride and ripped off.
Apart from all that, I like the music, I like the album
. Just feel sad at what could have been