Listening to Now (In Surround) - Volume 2

[4-earredwonder]

George Benson/Al Jurreau Givin' It Up [Warner/Monster Superdisc/DVD~V DTS 5.1/96/24 Stereo] Awesome pairing on an Exceptional Sounding Disc with Guest Stars Jill Scott, Patti Austin and Sir Paul McCartney!

 

[4-earredwonder]

Ray Charles GENIUS LOVES COMPANY [Hear Music/Monster Superdisc/DTS 5.1/96/24 Stereo] Great duets with the Who's WHO of Pop and Jazz culture

 

[bgf1973]

Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World

Incredible and crazy surround mix!!

 

[Quadmon]

The Youngbloods: Get Together: The Youngbloods First Album (1969), in a conversion from quad reel. An early RCA quad mix of the group's rebranded self-titled 1967 debut. The mixes are a grab-bag: some weird, some meh, some interesting. Fabulous tunes, though--yet another one it'd be great to see Dutton clean up.
https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/forums/threads/youngbloods-get-together-q8-qr.17009/
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Grizzly Bear on 1st album is loaded with reverb. A hard listen. On hits tape reverb is gone. Easier on the ears. I agree the songs are top notch.

 

[Quadmon]

The gang’s all here! Help! I’m surrounded!

 

[4-earredwonder]

Patricia Barber CLIQUE! [Impex Records/hybrid Multi~CH SACD/CD Layer MQA encoded] from the startling pluck of Patrick Mulcahy's upright bass, you know you're in for a rare treat from jazz artist extraordinaire Patricia Barber. Mostly covers, CLIQUE was recorded DXD 352.8kHz/32 bit and the 5.1 mix was mastered by Bob Ludwig. If you're a fan, by all means buy this wonderful disc and if not .... why not give it a try?

 

[The56Kid]

I make a lot of DIY mixes from various stems and multitracks scattered around the internet for fun. Not professional quality but fun.

I beg to differ on the ‘not professional quality’ disclaimer.

 

[bgf1973]

 

[oxenholme]

Air 10 000 Hz Legend Blu-ray 5.1 (but note that there is an Atmos mix as well)

Minimalist packaging CD & Blu-ray. I've never heard them previously. Interesting, and very enjoyable. Immersive.

 

[bgf1973]

This Afternoon.....1973´s albums in random mode (my year):

Billy Cobahn - Spectrum
Pink Floyd - DSOTM
The Who - Quadrophenia
Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
Art Garfunkel - Angel Clare
Billy Paul - War Of The Dogs
Chicago - IV
Deodato - 2 and Prelude
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Herbie Hancock - Sextant
Hugo Montenegro - Neil's Diamonds
King Crimson ‎- Larks' Tongues In Aspic
Loggins And Messina - Full Sail
Mike Oldfield ‎– Tubular Bells
Paul Mauriat ‎– Holidays
Rick Wakeman ‎– The Six Wives Of Henry VIII
Rick Derringer ‎– All American Boy
The Doobie Brothers ‎– The Captain And Me
The Guess Who ‎– #10
The Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup

Not bad year

 

[svengaleekie]

Yes - The Quest
Dream Theater - A View From the Top of the World

 

[humprof]

Don't ask me why this is what I'm listening to on an unexpectedly sunny November Saturday, but I'm comparing two versions of Leonard Bernstein's wackily ambitious (and more searchingly ecumenical than downright irreligious) Mass: the first, from 1971, with the composer at the podium, in an absolutely unbeatable conversion from Q8 (though if Michael Dutton still wants to make us a 50th-Anniversary present of this, I'd be all over it!), the other, from 2009, conducted by Kristjan Järvi (SACD 5.0). The Järvi is a great performance and it sounds terrific, and both versions have wonderfully (and appropriately) discrete mixes, but on the whole I prefer the one with the Lenny "aura," rollicking and a little messy.

 

[4-earredwonder]

Don't ask me why this is what I'm listening to on an unexpectedly sunny November Saturday, but I'm comparing two versions of Leonard Bernstein's wackily ambitious (and more searchingly ecumenical than downright irreligious) Mass: the first, from 1971, with the composer at the podium, in an absolutely unbeatable conversion from Q8 (though if Michael Dutton still wants to make us a 50th-Anniversary present of this, I'd be all over it!), the other, from 2009, conducted by Kristjan Järvi (SACD 5.0). The Järvi is a great performance and it sounds terrific, and both versions have wonderfully (and appropriately) discrete mixes, but on the whole I prefer the one with the Lenny "aura," rollicking and a little messy.

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I have both this and the Kent Nagano 2 disc multi~CH SACD [Harmonia Mundi] set but of course the Bernstein conducted Mass which opened Lincoln Center in 1971 is probably the one to own. Interesting review of the Nagano performance from HRaudio.net:

https://www.hraudio.net/showmusic.php?title=2476#reviews

 

[svengaleekie]

XTC - Oranges & Lemons

 

[humprof]

Anthony Braxton, Four Orchestras (1978), in a really good conversion from a clean CD-4 set. Six sides, two hours, not for the faint of heart. That is: it's not exactly the Boston Pops, but it is totally what it says: four orchestras, in four different corners. Conceptually it's pretty cool. And if you're in the right frame of mind, some of the music is, too.
https://www.discogs.com/release/1945094-Anthony-Braxton-For-Four-Orchestrashttps://www.quadraphonicquad.com/forums/threads/anthony-braxton-for-four-orchestras.27303/

 

[4-earredwonder]

Be~Bop Deluxe DRASTIC PLASTIC {Esoteric/DVD~V DTS 5.1] Superb 5.1 discrete remix but why not a bona fide MLP DVD~A 5.1 or BD~A????

BTW, Amazon is currently selling this set for $64....list is $93

https://www.amazon.com/Drastic-Plas...W,B07GRVVY79,B07Y9D3XN7,B085RTJ51G,B00JGE6DGQ

 

[fredblue]

And now after Birds
Billy Cobham Spectrum
Thank you AF for this unreleased quad (except for the track on the Experience sampler album)
Who did the Quad remix?

maybe Ken Scott?
he recorded the album and is also credited with engineering the remix, plus he's talked about mixing other albums into Quad that similarly never got released, such as Stanley Clarke's 1976 album "School Days"..

 

[fredblue]

Wild Cherry, Electrified Funk (1975), in a conversion from Q8. Starting my morning with some slick, mindless party funk (and I mean that in the best way!). And a few other tunes, too. One of those wonderfully discrete, late Columbia mixes.

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i pray that one day this Surroundily sexy super scarce title from the dying days of CBS' Quad programme in 1977 will be reissued on a modern format so everyone can hear just how funkily fookin' fantastic it is in Multichannel!!

baby don't you know! come on! baby don't you know!! uh huh baby don't you know that the honky's got soul! woah yeah that's the good stuff right there my lovelies

 

[fredblue]

What Steven Wilson tells us about the 5.1 mix of the Tanglewood concert
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Fun fact I'll throw in here: I used to work with Clive Bunkers brother Dave!

horror story for Halloween;

"SW in Ambient mix shocker!!"

up next the News read by Gerald Bostock

 

[fredblue]

George Benson/Al Jurreau Givin' It Up [Warner/Monster Superdisc/DVD~V DTS 5.1/96/24 Stereo] Awesome pairing on an Exceptional Sounding Disc with Guest Stars Jill Scott, Patti Austin and Sir Paul McCartney!

one of me all-time favourites there, Ralphiekins