Ok, folks, a quick follow-up to my
other post comparing the
DTS-CD and the
30th Anniversary 5.1 mixes:
The "Space Intro" is still truncated on the 30th. My bad. Guess I've been hearing the DTS-CD too many times! The intro runs about 1:13 on the remastered CD, 13 seconds on the DTS-CD, and about 16 seconds on the 30th 5.1 mix. Oh well...
"Take The Money And Run"
There is a phase effect on the crash cymbals on the DTS-CD; no such effect on the 30th.
The DTS-CD keeps the drums in the back, with hi-hat in rear-right; the 30th has the snare and kick up front (a bit strange), toms still in back, hi-hat also in rear-right. Drum rolls on both DTS and 30th go from rear-right to rear-left.
Guitar on both DTS and 30th 5.1 mixes is in the front-left channel; however, the 30th compresses the guitar a bit more and it is less defined.
Claps on both DTS and 30th are placed in the rears.
Lead vox is louder on the 30th.
Compared to the remastered CD, both the DTS and 30th 5.1 mixes are brighter.
The remastered CD starts fading around 2:39 and ends at 2:49. The DTS-CD starts fading around 2:59 and ends around 3:13. The 30th fades and ends like the remastered CD.
"Rock'n Me"
The remastered CD of the original stereo mix and the DTS-CD has the reverb steered to the right - rear-right, in the case of the DTS. The new 30th 5.1 mix is drier and the ambience is not steered.
The slap-back delay on the lead vox is recreated on the 30th and sounds a bit different - I believe the decay is slightly less, not sure...Lead vox is louder on the 30th.
The guitar on the 30th is also on the left - with some spillage into the rear-left.
The low end is rather anemic on both the DTS and 30th 5.1 mixes, compared to other tracks on the album - maybe the DTS has a slight edge (when adjusting for the difference in volume levels).
The DTS is slightly brighter than the 30th.
Back vox are in rear for both the DTS and 30th mixes; however, the 30th back vox are steered a bit more into the rear-left.
The highs are rolled off during the end fade on the DTS.
Both the DTS and 30th end around 3:22. The remastered CD ends around 3:05.
The one big frustrating thing about the 30th is that one cannot FF or RW during a song - only chapter skip. Could this be the cause of the delay of the release - to fix the encoding (if possible)?