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Rate your lossless Albums SACD's, Audio DVD's and Blu Ray Audio disks


Max2

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Rate your lossless 2 channel or multi channel audio disks with a brief description for future buyers. Also put which format you own. Rate disks from 1-10

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Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon. (SACD) Good use of rear channels. Great mixing. This is a superb Demo disk and is Easily at the top of my short list. 9.5/10

Rush -Moving Pictures. (Blu Ray audio) Another favorite of mine. Excellent mixing and outrageous dynamics. The beginning of the Camera Eye really turned up brings goose bumps and gives the sub a heavy workout 9+/10 (GET the double album Bluray that includes Moving Pictures and 2112)

Getz/Gilberto. Lossless (Blu Ray 2 channel) only. Extreme horns with clarity, yet delicate and no hiss in pauses. You can hear Stans reed flutter on his Sax. 9/10

Fleetwood Mac-Rumors (DVD audio) Expensive, but worth it. This disk makes all your FM lossy copies worthless and spoils you. Drums, bass all very defined and the sub was utilized well in the mix. A must have if you even remotely like the old Mac band. 9.5/10

Zeppelin- Celebration (BluRay audio) only. This was the last get together with the members and Bonhams son. Great live Concert but no video. A little harsh at times and mixing could have been better. There are other Zeppelin live DVD's I like better. 7.5+/10

Steely Dan- Gaucho. (DVDA) Easily a demo disk for any system. All the hits that we grew up listening on the radio. Clarity, dynamics and that perfect mixing SD is known for. This one makes my top three easily. 9.5/10

Queen- A Night at the Opera (Blu Ray audio) only. Really good. Brings in the rear channels with some spatial mixing. Freddy never sounded better. Subwoofer was almost non existent which I appreciate keeping the original edit, but could have been a tad better. 8.5/10

Stone Temple Pilots- Core. (DVD Audio) Another great example of what lossless multi channel should be. Huge improvement. Even though this album has so much energy, they make it cleaner and more dynamic. One of the strongest and cleanest drum passages I have heard period. The mix alone is a 9.5/10

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I've thought about a thread like this... I have multiple versions of the same album and find the differences to be shocking sometimes. I know this information is available in the DR database if you want to go find it but I might include some comparisons along with some dynamic range info as well.

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It's all good, we need more input just for the archive. The more it develops it may be informative. The more the better,.

Good idea for a topic. After all, we listen too.

*Chis A found the archives which is nice, Thanks

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Jethro Tull- Aqualung 40th Anniversary Box set. (2,CD's, 1,DVD audio, 1,heavy press LP record and 1, Blu Ray Audio disk) You get the box set with just about every format out there. I have just played the Blu Ray so far, but it has every other mixing format on it. I would say I'm 95% satisfied with the multi channel playback on all of the tracks, but the LPCM original mix 2 channel recordings sound the way you have been hearing them for decades, only 10X better and it just leaves you breathless. There are two or three tracks in the DTS HD master and LPCM mix where the lyrics just seem to be concentrated only on the center channel which makes the vocals sound weak and seem non existent. Its almost like an error when compared to the rest of the DTS tracks which are incredibly mastered and I'm not a huge DTS HD Master fan. I prefer the basic LPCM in most cases. Having said that, you get a great mix out of the LPCM 5.1 setting and a very transparent, almost wet sound out of the 4.1 mix, which sounds a lot like multi channel stereo and they mixed the .1 sub to honk in this mix! . Once you make it to the Bonus tracks, you have a mix of stereo and multi channel playback depending on which song. Minus the two or three strangely mixed multi channel tracks, (which I'm going to investigate more on) this set is incredible. The bass is extended way beyond the original recordings on the new mastering version...remember, you get the original recording too, lossless. The old hiss you could hear at the beginning on Locomotive Breath while the Piano intro played is gone with the new mix. I literally sat for a couple of hours listening to different formats on the different tracks. I have never seen any recording offer each track in so many different formats, its very cool seeing how your system sounds and reacts differently. This collage of music will show you just how clean you system is capable of. This disk WILL make you diss your convenient mega list of point and click MP-3's. It WILL make you turn your nose up on your Red Book JT offerings. It WILL make you strive to find more lossless music that are staples of your yesteryear of listening. I think the delicate JT vocal passages, acoustic guitars and the melodies we all have had branded on our brain over the years is really what gives you such a pronounced WOW factor when you hear this lossless offering and easily comparing it to the past from your memory.

This disk is my new leader and I really didn't think it couldn't get much better than the Fleetwood Mac Rumors DVD

9.7+/10 This set isn't cheap, but like all the other expensive sets and some being out of print, its very, very worth it. Plus, I got a friggin LP album of Aqualung now !

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9.7+/10 This set isn't cheap, but like all the other expensive sets and some being out of print, its very, very worth it. Plus, I got a friggin LP album of Aqualung now !

For those of us who have not yet developed this illness, what does "This set isn't cheap" mean?

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I picked up mine for $89.00 shipped off Amazon and it was new. I agree though, a few of these are pricey and some out there that are out of production are really expensive.

More and more are coming out on Blu Ray and they are very reasonable and Im hoping more labels will jump on board. Its strange that so many people here are so technical this and technical that, yet they won't just buy a $30 dollar BluRay of one their faves and give it a shot. Obviously we can't replace all our music with lossless, but for the money you can't get a better or cleaner sound improvement no matter how much you spent on hardware spinning a normal CD

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