The Grand Slam of surround mixes club

[MrSmithers]

With a few recent Atmos releases there are some albums to have reached the Grand Slam of different mixes… Quadraphonic, 5.1 and now a Dolby Atmos mix to complete the set!

Gold level

Carly Simon - No Secrets
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
The Allman Brothers Band - Eat A Peach
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

I suppose you could say there’s a few classical titles as well like Holst - The Planets and Stravinsky’s Firebird… However in this particular case the subsequent 5.1/object based mixes are just ambient compared to the quad - it’s not worth considering them really…

A bit more cheating…

Gentle Giant - Freehand
Ten Years After - A Space In Time

Both have a quad, 5.1 and an Atmos mix but the last 2 mixes came from the same release so don’t think it really counts…

Silver level

Albums that have a realistic chance of joining the club - ie have both a quad and a 5.1 mix already and are likely candidates for a possible future Atmos/360RA mix...

Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle
Deep Purple - Machine Head
The Doobie Brothers - The Captain And Me
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Marvin Gaye - Let’s Get It On
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic
The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East
Carole King - Tapestry
John Lennon - Imagine
Jethro Tull - Aqualung (Steven Wilson has said he’s not averse to expanding previous 5.1 mixes into Atmos)
Jethro Tull - WarChild
Chicago - Chicago (II) plus an unreleased 5.1 X. Actually some songs did make it onto a compilation ‘Best Of Chicago’ Atmos release..

I’m sure there’s a few more... ?

 

[ar surround]

Wouldn’t this be called a Triple Crown? Grand Slam applies to four in both baseball and tennis. But no doubt that one day there will be yet another surround release beyond Atmos.

 

[MrSmithers]

Wouldn’t this be called a Triple Crown? Grand Slam applies to four in both baseball and tennis. But no doubt that one day there will be yet another surround release beyond Atmos.

Ha yeah maybe?! Perhaps the fourth will be a future inspired telepathic mix that requires no speakers and magically transmits a 22.4.22 array into your brain directly...

 

[ar surround]

Ha yeah maybe?! Perhaps the fourth will be a future inspired telepathic mix that requires no speakers and magically transmits a 22.4.22 array into your brain directly...

And I’ll bet you a quid that it’ll be highly compressed audio...Then Paul and SDE will still have a market for their Blu-ray’s.

(Now look what you’ve done. )

 

[audiomaster]

Ha yeah maybe?! Perhaps the fourth will be a future inspired telepathic mix that requires no speakers and magically transmits a 22.4.22 array into your brain directly...

I hear this feature will be included in Surround Master V5.0? Along with the CD-4 decoder!

 

[LennonCobain]

With a few recent Atmos releases there are some albums to have reached the Grand Slam of different mixes… Quadraphonic, 5.1 and now a Dolby Atmos mix to complete the set!

Gold level

Carly Simon - No Secrets
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
The Allman Brothers Band - Eat A Peach
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

I suppose you could say there’s a few classical titles as well like Holst - The Planets and Stravinsky’s Firebird… However in this particular case the subsequent 5.1/object based mixes are just ambient compared to the quad - it’s not worth considering them really…

A bit more cheating…

Gentle Giant - Freehand
Ten Years After - A Space In Time

Both have a quad, 5.1 and an Atmos mix but the last 2 mixes came from the same release so don’t think it really counts…

Silver level

Albums that have a realistic chance of joining the club - ie have both a quad and a 5.1 mix already and are likely candidates for a possible future Atmos/360RA mix...

Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle
Deep Purple - Machine Head
The Doobie Brothers - The Captain And Me
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Marvin Gaye - Let’s Get It On
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic
The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East
Carole King - Tapestry
John Lennon - Imagine
Jethro Tull - Aqualung (Steven Wilson has said he’s not averse to expanding previous 5.1 mixes into Atmos)
Jethro Tull - WarChild
Chicago - Chicago (II) plus an unreleased 5.1 X. Actually some songs did make it onto a compilation ‘Best Of Chicago’ Atmos release..

I’m sure there’s a few more... ?

Imagine has an Atmos mix… released with the Ultimate Collection reissue.

 

[Jeffrey Michael]

I don’t think Aerosmith’s Toys In The Attic actually had a 5.1 mix because the disc I have sounds like 4-speaker Quad.

 

[sjcorne]

I don’t think Aerosmith’s Toys In The Attic actually had a 5.1 mix because the disc I have sounds like 4-speaker Quad.

The 5.1 mix on the SACD is definitely different than what’s on my quad 8-track.