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Huh????... I used to like playing the DTS of Sting's Fields of Gold too....
Where...who...when...what?????
Huh????... I used to like playing the DTS of Sting's Fields of Gold too....
Huh????
Where...who...when...what?????
I've had these DTS Surround disks a long time and hadn't listened to them in years. This thread just got me to dig them out and have another listen. I wasn't aware that they were actually 2 channel CD's magically expanded to discrete multichannel. But now it's easy to hear the 44.1 / 16 bit effect. AP's mixes twirl them in a nice fashion and I was impressed in the beginning but now I think I'll be fine just going on without them I used to like playing the DTS of Sting's Fields of Gold too. I'd like to get my hands on a DSD version of that.
Thanks for your thoughts.
ahhh but that is Ten Summoner´s tales...which I sorta agree with that guy but I think it´s a bit better...not much!!!SQ10 hated it, but you seemed to like it. Check out the thread link below
https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/forums/threads/sting-ten-summoners-tales-dts-cd.5052/
It's become almost unobtainium but Alan Parsons "A Valid Path" DualDisc is an awesome mix.On Air was my first purchased surround music album back in the 1990s using my new Carver AL-III dipole ribbons with Def Tech BP2 bipolar surrounds and an Energy center. Being a Pink Floyd fan, the notion some tracks (notably Cloudbreak) are imitation Floyd doesn’t bother me. In fact, given how Pink Floyd is basically done, I rather wish more artists were inspired by them. The album sounds even better on my 17.1 (11.1.6) PSB based system today!
Cloudburst is an awesome instrumental with deep bass and yes, Gilmour-like guitar bits. Blue Blue Sky (outro) gets requests from my mother to play nearly every time she comes to visit (along with High Hopes by Pink Floyd). She practically cries on that heavenly sounding chorale ending and then the deep bass slams in and she has this satisfied look on her face. That song doesn’t work quite as well for me, but the overall quality and surround mix are still top notch, IMO. First hearing the discrete nature of the album on Too Close To The Sun had me thinking surround 5.1 was the future of music! Sadly, it hasn’t really happened that way 25+ years later. Not every track is a classic, but I still find I can easily listen to the entire album straight through. There are no true stinkers on it, IMO.
I don’t really get the snobby audiophile attitudes I read in many of the reviews. The notion of some claiming to tell lossy DTS from lossless has never been proven with double blind listening tests to my knowledge nor is greater than 16/44.1 needed for human ears. The idea someone would throw out one of the best surround music albums ever made because they believe in audiophile snake oil is pretty unbelievable to me. Yeah I’m deaf... Right. I’ve extensively compared the lossless CD version for anomalies. Anything over processed sounding is that way on the CD too.
I gave this one a 10 on principle given how great the surround mix is compared to most 5.1 mixes I’ve heard over the years (for what is mostly 4.1 save the Kennedy bit on Apollo). It’s not Atmos or Auro-3D, but it’s about as good a mix as someone could hope for in 4.0 or 5.1. Ironically, it’s Alan’s own mixes of Pink Floyd (DSOTM and WYWH) that I’d also rate as high in mix terms.
It's become almost unobtainium but Alan Parsons "A Valid Path" DualDisc is an awesome mix.
It's almost techno in style.
David Gilmour adds a blistering lead on the first track.
Very different than the usual Parsons.
It's become almost unobtainium but Alan Parsons "A Valid Path" DualDisc is an awesome mix.
It's almost techno in style.
David Gilmour adds a blistering lead on the first track.
Very different than the usual Parsons.
OMG!I know Time Machine is done, perhaps we shall get to hear that one.
That's none other than Monty Python's John Cleese.That dude yelling at the end of the next to last track in the back of the room about freaked me out.