The Wind and Wuthering and Trick of The Tail SACDs arrived from Music Direct today. Friday is an auspicious day for this delivery since this is when I always pour myself a nice glass of vodka and sit down with my JBLs for a short trip to Russia. I listened to Wind and Wuthering first. I left the Velodyne at my default/minimum setting of 10. It sounded good, but I wasn't as thrilled as I expected. Half way through Trick of The Tail, I turned it down to 8 and it was dialed in. It's amazing what a difference a little tweak can make!
These CDs did not encode 500 Mics of LSD into the mix like the Dark Side of the Moon 5.1, with stuff coming from everywhere. But when you close your eyes, the room morphs into a fine sounding space with the 5.1 DSD mix. Very warm, balanced and defined, everything right where it should be -- They did a nice job on this.
The Accompanying DVD is kind of superfluous. They give you a choice of DTS 24/96 and Dolby. I tried the DTS and the AVR 7300 went to analog. At this point, I don't quite understand what I was getting off of this, but it's the same as the DSD. It only shows the name of what is playing. There is no accompanying video of the band or anything else to see on this.