Please post your comments on Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority (DTS/DD DVD)
Should be released 3/23/2010
Should be released 3/23/2010
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Also they incorrectly label this as a dvd audio.
My vote was a composite 8, driven by 8 for the content, 7 for the sound and 10 for the effort to release it. Album shows how inventive the band was from the beginning, before the pop glaze overtook them at times later. Poem58 showcases what a surprisingly great improvisational guitar player Terry Kath was.
The quad mix is surely what we expected; it doesn't stray much from a stock mixing strategy for a few songs, then it becomes a little more surprising and inventive. The fidelity is certainly not bad; if you want the 1970's type of dynamic range this is exactly what you're getting. Without the previous Chicago DVD-A 5.1 releases to gauge with, this DTS DVD could've ranked higher, but they do exist after all.
Nice touch with the reproduced quadradisc graphics on the inside sleeve and the ricepaper sleeve inside. These touches and the "Now listen to some quadio!" printed banter tell me that they really put some thought into this. It leads me to believe there will certainly be more; lot of trouble to just make a single release.
The album is at least a minor classic, which merits owning. It's a 21st century digital Quadradisc, which merits purchasing! Enjoy
I wonder how many folks will get this who own the 5.1 systems with little speakers in the corners and a big sub-woofer which will not get any info from this disc if their receiver does not do the bass management.
It will probably sound really tinny to them. In this case, it probably would have been a good thing if they created a .1 channel from the 4 quad channels just to compensate for those with little speakers
Well, let me start by saying that I love the way the bass sounds on my system, but I guess it's just a matter of taste.
Absolutely not. Bass management is a speaker system issue, not a mix delivery issue. Crafting an LFE channel from the bass content of others and delivering it on a separate disk channel is an almost sure way to screw up the playback on 99% of the systems it will reach.
I can't imagine anyone with a Bose-equivalent system not running it without bass management - they would think the speaker system is broken. It's much more likely that someone with speakers that go down to 60 Hz or 40 Hz will make the assumption that they don't need to integrate the subwoofer with bass management.
Rhino is surely misguided when they went to the effort to include a bass management option on the disk.
There are several VERY self-indulgent moments...
You're right. I hate when classic mixes are futzed with by doing things like creating a fake .1 channel. I was only thinking along the lines of people with crappy systems trashing the release because they did not know how to use their receiver. Along the lines of the early days of SQ, when folks brought home an SQ LP and their crappy non-logic matrix receiver would basically do nothing to the signal. That turned off a lot of potential quad fans who heard no quad from their quad system.
As it is DTS, I have no problems with the bass. Now if it were DVD-A, I would not be able manage the bass and would have an issue.