Caspersozza
Active Member
I got mine yesterday. Initially I couldn't play the Blu-ray, as it neither autoplayed, nor responded to any combination of pressing enter and start (including the recommended three enters) with anything other than track numbers ticking over and silence. My surround audio is part of a home cinema that requires pulling a large screen over blacked-out windows, so I dislike discs that won't play without a screen - a mercifully rare occurrence.
Once I had begrudgingly pulled down the screen and fired up the projector, it was all systems go, and I have to say that the audio is shockingly good - incredible quality, separation of instruments, use of soundstage and warmth. No time for a fulsome review, but this is by miles the best version of CTTE I've ever heard, and a superb addition to the 5.1 canon. I was thinking of giving it 9, as I've always felt that there are better 5.1 mixers than Steven Wilson but, given how much I enjoyed listening to the album again last night, I scored it a 10. It would have been churlish not to.
Once I had begrudgingly pulled down the screen and fired up the projector, it was all systems go, and I have to say that the audio is shockingly good - incredible quality, separation of instruments, use of soundstage and warmth. No time for a fulsome review, but this is by miles the best version of CTTE I've ever heard, and a superb addition to the 5.1 canon. I was thinking of giving it 9, as I've always felt that there are better 5.1 mixers than Steven Wilson but, given how much I enjoyed listening to the album again last night, I scored it a 10. It would have been churlish not to.