Zen Traveler

Between Concert videos and my Klipsch, the urge to go to live concerts has become nonexistent. I also am appreciating artist that I wouldn't have thought of during my Rock and Roll days. For some reason I like beautiful country singers singing to me as much as I liked feminine British guys wailing at me. Go figure. On that note, Faith Hill's "When the lights go down," is very nicely done, especially her duet with Carlos Santana. I also know why the new concert DVD by Shinia Twain is called "Up!";-) Both of these bring a tear to my eye and the sound is good. I remember reading somewhere that Female vocals don't sound as good on Klipsch reference speakers--I can't disagree more. rplace--Given your recent purchase, I think you would enjoy INXS's "Live Baby Live," if you are a fan of that group. Genesis "Live at Wembly stadium," is also good and will give your sub a workout. For fans of the sound quality of "Hell Freezes Over," I highly recommend Don Henley's "Live Inside Job."

I am a big U2 fan and enjoy all of their concerts and wish they would put previous concerts on DVD. "Rattle and Hum," was the first video I put on when I started this adventure known as Home Theater--Since that time disposable income has become nonexistent (i.e. HT & DVD fixes have become Mandatory Expense;-) BChild311: Yes, it does have a DTS track. It has been a while since I watched the video but as I remember it there were alot of crowd noise like you would experience at a concert. The Eagles,"HFO," has more clarity in sound and I guess that is why it seems to be a benchmark in Hi Fidelity concert video. U2 is my all time favorite band (as of today) but "Growing up Live" is one of the best concerts I own as far as Video/Audio is concerned. I guess if I had to explain the difference in the two, U2 is more like you are amongst the crowd enjoying the concert--Peter Gabriel is like being in a Skybox with tremendous sound around you instead of the crowd. The video quality of Pete's "Secret world live," isn't as good as "Growing up Live," but an excellent concert as well.

Several years ago when I started watching DVD concerts, I totally stopped listening to my CD's. Whenever I heard the term "DVD Audio" I thought that WAS what I was listening to. When I learned that actually you had to buy 6 analog cables (and special disks)I thought it was a gimmick by my Audio sales person to part with those expensive cables--It may have been, but since hooking those badboys up I haven't turned back and still don't play Redbook CD's. I have several DVD Audio and SACD titles. I guess I am lucky that I haven't heard any bad surround mixes as some on this forum have, but I agree that pickens are slim in retail stores. It doesn't help that BestBuy only sells one "Universal player," and they seem to have several "open box" items in every store. It makes me wonder if they are crap or folks don't know what they are buying and return them. Every chance I get I help educate the sales folks on how incredible these formats are and encourage them to tell their managers to get more titles. My power of persuasion must be fading:-( It also didn't help that when I went to the "high dollar" store and asked about upper end players they wanted to put me on a waiting list. There are several threads that have good titles--Three that I haven't seen mentioned but I like are: Electric Warrior by T-Rex, The Best of R.E.M., and Faith Hill does an excellent rendition of "Cry," (She definitely brings a tear to my eye, but I digress) on The DVD-A with the same name.