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Nashou66
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 7:30 pm Post subject: Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here Immersion box set |
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I get emails from Home theater review and there were a few links I thought were interesting. One is this Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here Immersion box set.
Has anyone listened to audio only Blu Ray discs? I want this on my wish list.
I'd love to listen to the quad mix as well on my retro quad Fisher.
Athanasios
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draganm
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why is this the one PF album that never seems to get re-released on LP?
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draganm
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ugggh, just read the description for the multi-channl nightmare. Guitar playing out of the center channel? What a nasty mess
| Quote: | | Once again there's almost an embarrassment of riches with regard to the audio options on this release, but the one that's probably going to be of most interest to longtime fans of this album will no doubt be the previously unreleased 5.1 surround mix done in 2009 and presented here in 96/24. As innovative as Dark Side of the Moon was in terms of discrete stereo effects and even its own quad mix, it simply pales in comparison to Wish You Were Here. Obviously Pink Floyd was trying to introduce even more extreme uses of discrete channelization, even in their stereo mix (which receives a stellar remaster here, sounding better than ever), which features one great panning sequence after another, as well as long stretches where just one channel is being utilized. The 5.1 mix ups the ante considerably, so that now for instance on the opening of "Welcome to the Machine," instead of just right to left panning, we get intense surround activity that moves forward and backward through the soundfield. The lovely guitar arpeggios which enter at around 1:00 also are more widely splayed front to back, even as they still are clearly on the left and then the right. There's also a clearer separation between that pulsing bass as it moves back and forth between the channels. The sampling at the head of "Wish You Were Here" also sounds fantastic in 5.1, still clearly skewed right, but now subtly surrounding the listener from both front and back. The center channel also is impeccably utilized, clearly separate from the side channels, when the guitar makes its entrance at around the one minute mark. That haunting wind sound that starts out "Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts 6- 9" also pans madly around the soundfield in the new 5.1 mix, enveloping the listener in what might be a sonic recreation of the madness enveloping Syd Barrett. The old 1975 Quad mix by comparison sound noticeably more "crowded" in terms of central placement, with a tendency to simply splay all sounds equally around the four channels with occasional nice discrete channel utilization to perk up the proceedings. While there's nothing wrong per se with the Quad mix, and it is undeniably immersive, my hunch is most fans are easily going to repeatedly opt for the newer 5.1 mix, which also has the benefit of much improved low end. |
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Nashou66
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I have the 2009 180 gram re master and its not that great, the old original I have sounds better. But the BD audio has it in stereo as well .
DISC 5 - BLURAY:
-AUDIO: Wish You Were Here, James Guthrie 2009 5.1 Surround Mix (previously unreleased) high resolution audio at 96 kHz/24-bit
-AUDIO: Wish You Were Here, Original stereo mix (1975) mastered in high resolution audio at 96 kHz/24-bit
- AUDIO VISUAL: Concert Screen films:
Shine On You Crazy Diamond Intro
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
-AUDIO VISUAL: Welcome To The Machine animated clip
- AUDIO VISUAL: Storm Thorgerson short film
That is what I am asking about.
Nashou
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overclkr
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| Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 9:28 pm Post subject: Re: Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here Immersion box set |
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| Nashou66 wrote: | I get emails from Home theater review and there were a few links I thought were interesting. One is this Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here Immersion box set.
Has anyone listened to audio only Blu Ray discs? I want this on my wish list.
I'd love to listen to the quad mix as well on my retro quad Fisher.
Athanasios |
Ken brought over his SACD of WYWH and it was AWESOME!
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