Multichannel recordings - recommendations?

[Hoerninger]

Sphärenklänge
Neue Philharmonie Westfalen
Heiko Mathias Förster (Conductor)
(c) ebs records GmbH
(p) 2007

You get a new years concert with many well known titles by the Strauß-family (Carmen-Quadrille, Kaiserwaltzer, Radetzki-Marsch ...).
It is a very well performed recording - and there is no applause at all. Another highlight is the surround sound - there is no hint on the cover.



ASIN: B00131TC04
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Peter

[Hoerninger]

Richard Strauss:
Four Last Songs / Hero's Life
Odense Symphony Orchestra (Denmark)
Jan Wagner Conductor
Live recording from Odense Koncerthus, 29-31 March 1999

Musically it is a wonderful recording highly appriciated by the audience (fortunately only at the end).
The recording is outstanding regarding the sonical, technical and surround performance.
It is one of my most „audiophile“ discs.

DVD Audio 96 kHz, 24 bit 3/2CH
DVD Video Dolby digital 3/2CH
linear PCM 48 kHz, 16 bit stereo




Label Silverline Records (LA) 2002
ASIN: B000075A2W
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Peter

[hjames]

Been a fan of Bryan Ferry for many years - couple weeks back I notice a new live concert was available on Amazon - filmed on July 25, 2011 at the ancient Roman amphitheater in Lyon, France. Found a good price for the Bluray version, and it arrived today - It also includes the Making of Olympia video - a 28 min interview/behind the scenes of his previous studio Album that was available only on the CD/DVD Special Edition of that release. Its nice, but irrelevant to this release But on to the Concert Footage. Its a 5 channel DTS release - very nice sound, tho I didn't see a dedicated bass/sub channel to it, but it plays well on all 5 surround speakers in my system ... No sign of the Roxy Music performers, its Colin Goode on Piano, Neil Hubbard on Guitar, Andy Newmark Drums (and Tara Ferry also on drums!), and a number of newer folks. Tempo is up a bit, but there's a lot of music done well live - lots to like of you like the man and his music!
TRACKLISTING
1. I Put A Spell On You
2. Slave To Love
3. Don’t Stop The Dance
4. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
5. If There Is Something
6. Make You Feel My Love
7. You Can Dance
8. Alphaville
9. Reason Or Rhyme
10. Oh Yeah!
11. Like A Hurricane
12. Tara
13. Bitter-Sweet
14. Avalon
15. My Only Love
16. What Goes On
17. Sign Of The Times
18. Love Is The Drug
19. All Along The Watchtower
20. Let’s Stick Together
21. Hold On I’m Coming
22. Jealous Guy

[archiekaras]

I have not heard but I have been told that the Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon 30th anniversary sacd has a multichannel cut on it that is something special. I prefer the Orignal LP by far but from what I hear it is worth a listen.

[hjames]

We had a great discussion through the various multichannel mixes of DSOTM in this thread:

http://www.audioheritage.org/vbullet...OTM-Pink-Floyd

For the specifics of the different mixes, check out Hoerninger's POST #1 in that thread ...
he has links to all the official discussions of these discs:

I have not heard but I have been told that the Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon 30th anniversary sacd
has a multichannel cut on it that is something special. I prefer the Original LP by far, but from what I hear it is worth a listen.

[Radley]

Bruce Botnick re-did the Doors albums with 5:1 DVD-As. Excellent!

Bob Dylan's "Blonde On Blonde" on 5:1 SACD, cool. One can Mute all the channels except the center channel so you'll only hear Dylan (trying) singing.

Miles Davis- "Sketches Of Spain" & "Kind of Blue". Yes, please.

Handels' "Messiah" on Harmonia Mundi with 5:1 SACD- phenomenal recording!

The Getz/ Gilberto SACD.

The Stones London Records catalog on SACD.

The Beatles released their catalog with the remastered versions, which both the stereo and mono box sets are very good. They never released them in SACD/ DVD-A but you you can find some of the songs on the DVD box set "Anthologies". Those are in 5:1.

The David Bowie "Live" is a good 5:1 DVD-A.

Avoid the Band's "Music From Big Pink" DVD-A. Robbie Robertson tried real hard but the songs seem to loose their "glue" from the original.

[Hoerninger]

1958 London Sessions (DVD-Audio)

Blues vom Feinsten - sowohl musikalisch als auch technisch
Decent surround sound, but the original seems to be recorded in stereo.

DVD Audio: 24 bit/ 96 kHz, 5.1
Dolby: 24 bit/ 48 kHz, 5.1
Plays on all DVD-players



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Peter

[Don C]

Blood Sweat and Tears, Child is Father To The Man is available now from Audio Fidelity. It's fantastic. Great use of the surround channels and you won't wish for more bass. The sound quality is so good that it's hard to believe this was made in 1968. There are no hit songs here though. Audio Fidelity discs tend to go out of print pretty quickly, so get a copy now, while the cost is still reasonable.

[Hoerninger]

You can still get a wonderful set of Beethoven's symphonies conducted by Daniel Barenboim with the Berliner Staatskapelle for a reasonable price. Surround sound as DVD-Audio and DVD-Video (Dolby) and a stereo track.


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[Hoerninger]

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[Hoerninger]

A very lively presentation of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker with the London Symphoniy Orchestra conducted by Don Jackson.

DISC 1
DVD Audio 5.1, 48 kHz /24 Bit
PCM stereo
DTS 5.1, 5.1, 48 kHz /24 Bit
and DISC 2
Compact Disc stereo

published by DTS entertainmaent 2005



ASIN: B000AE8G9I
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Peter

[Hoerninger]

http://www.aes.org/technical/documents/AESTD1001.pdf
Bass management isn't that easy.
(Question: What to do with a three channel SACD without LFE? )
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[SEAWOLF97]

Listening to The Dark Side Of The Moon - Immersion Box Set .... (about $150)
in PL2 music mode on HT.

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Side-Moon...side+immersion

3 CD's , 2DVD's

remastered DVD has 5 complete copies of DSOM

1. 5.1 448 kbps
2. 5.1 640 kbps
3. PCM Stereo
4. 4.0 Quad 448 kbps
5. 4.0 Quad 640 kbps

#5 is on right now ..what a revelation ... new detail
noise floor is below my hearing ability.

only gripe is that it comes up to a video menu , so you need the TV on to select
(unless you remember the remote key strokes)

[Hoerninger]

April 21, 2015:
Benchmark: Lossless High-Resolution Audio on a Disk

Just got this message
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[hjames]

Sea Change is now available in Pure Audio format on Bluray disc - at a reasonable price.
Like the SACD, It sounds spectacular!

http://smile.amazon.com/Sea-Change-B...p/B00ELVVAG2/r

At our last meet, JBLAddict brought Beck's Sea Change disc for a spin. I believe it was the SACD.

It sounded spectacular. We actually sat and listened to music without the usual slack-jawed commentary for at least three, maybe four cuts. The high level of mixing and mastering was evident from the first bar.

I found the DVD-A of Sea Change for a bargain price and snapped it up. It includes some videos as well as the surround mixes. Very, very nice--one of the best discs.

It is a bit melancholy at times, since it's a "break up" disc ("you're dead to me..."), but it's magic in your surround system. If an album of this calibre couldn't make surround recordings commercially viable, then SACD and DVD-A didn't have much of a chance.

Highly recommended.