Listening to Now (In Surround) - Volume 2

[4-earredwonder]

Metalheads who like the cookie monster vocals that is. I had to turn it off at about 10 seconds into the first song.

Too bad there isn't an instrumental only version, or is there?

I'm hardly what you'd call a METALHEAD but the album got progressively better and there are some VERY tasty guitar licks and on my full range system utilizing separate components, it really does sound superb......

But I did follow that with AF's SUPERB Stereo SACD remaster of Renaissance's Scheherazarde ... to DECOMPRESS!

 

[kokishin]

not bad !

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Agree! But how's the album?

 

[ubertrout]

This is the DTS version (really hard to tell from the packaging - the regular CD version is Dolby Surround and the only difference in packaging is a DTS sticker, but the disc itself is covered with DTS logos and warnings). It's a decent performance, generally faster than average. Surround is ambience at best, though. Not a winner for me.

Incidentally, Telarc recorded a version of The Planets in DSD with Paavo Jarvi but it only got released on regular CD, right around the end of the company. What a shame.

 

[4-earredwonder]

Bob Dylan SLOW TRAIN COMING [SONY/Multi~CH SACD/5.1 mix by Chris Shaw/5.1 Mastering: George Marino @ Sterling Sound] Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio with Mark Knopfler on guitar and the assistance of the Muscle Shoals Horns

 

[Clement]

Saturday in the Park
I think it was the Fourteenth of March, . . .
Why, yes! It was! And a brisk 36 degrees
With 21 mph NNE winds making it feel more like 25!
(This is why i don't write lyrics for a living!)

Warming up with Chicago V from Quadio
POLL

 

[4-earredwonder]

Bob Dylan BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME [SONY/Multi~CH SACD/5.1 mix by Michael H. Brauer/5.1 mastering George Marino @ Sterling Sound]

 

[4-earredwonder]

Bob Dylan BLOOD ON THE TRACKS [SONY/MULTI~CH SACD/5.1 mix: Phil Ramone & Elliot Scheiner/Mastered by Darcy Proper] My Last Dylan album of the evening before the Grammys ..... and it's a Doozy!

 

[PK]

 

[marpow]

Real good music. In 5.1 Surround.

 

[Clement]

Whoa! Instead of springing ahead, apparently i've fallen behind . . . an entire day! It's 25 o'clock!

XTC AS The Dukes of Stratosphear Psurroundabout Ride
POLL

 

[marpow]

A definite sound improvement over the first, and I think both are great.

 

[marpow]

SACD 5.1 DSF file to DSD playback JRiver DR's avg 14.

 

[user 1679]

The Pineapple Thief - Your Wilderness

 

[Audiowannabee]

Pineapple Thief
8 Years Later

 

[Clement]

. . . Where you lead, I will follow
Anywhere that you tell me to
If you need, you need me to be with you
I will follow where you lead . . .

Carole King Tapestry
POLL

 

[efb18]

I guess I'll just put on "Version of the Truth" then.

 

[Audiowannabee]

Pink Floyd
Wish U Were Here
Quad bluray

 

[Audiowannabee]

Steve Wilson
Hand cannot erase

 

[NYMo]

Genesis Trespass SACD from the box set !

 

[4-earredwonder]

ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN [SONY/Multi~CH SACD/5.1 mix by Michael H. Brauer & Steve Berkowitz/Mastered by George Marino @ Sterling Sound]