Best 5.1 surround dvd and blu-ray audio mixes? & what are you personal favorites?

The Best of Seal is fantastic!

 

...and the produced but unreleased Obscured By Clouds!

 

Yes

 

The Game is also good in 5.1, for you Queen fans.

 

I would love to get surround releases of these:
Sufjan Stevens: Age Of Adz
Planetarium (Sufjan Stevens etc. project)

These are mainly electronic albums with "full of everything" so they would greatly benefit from surround mix.

 

Steven Wilson - The Raven that Refused to Sing
All the XTC discs so far
And the insanity that is Yoshimi by the Flaming lips

 

Another vote for The Beatles Yellow Submarine and Love. Actually Help! was ok too. Disappointed in Hard Day's Night, MMT, and Pepper.

Bern

 

Isn't that a gateway to down loading from ITunes?

 

Yea, i had it years ago, but an international move cost me a lot of stuff ... these days i cant justify the cost of it 2nd hand.
They need to re/issue these older titles on bluray or dts 96/24 ... the hard work is done, its illogical to not re/issue them to me

 

I enjoy Queen's "Greatest Video Hits" on DVD in DTS 5.1....I don't even watch the videos, just turn off the TV and listen

 

Yup. Raven ticks ALL the boxes.

Songs, imagination, playing, production, engineering, surround.

 

I really like:

Wish you were here - Pink Floyd (blu-ray)
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield (dvda)
War of the worlds - Jeff Wayne (sacd)
Hand.Cannot.Erase. - Steven Wilson (blu-ray)
Brothers in arms - Dire Straits (sacd)

 

Really enjoy the 5.1 mix of Eric Clapton's 461 Ocean Boulevard done by Elliot Scheiner that was included in the Give Me Strength: The '74/'75 Recordings box set from 2013. On the instrumental outro section of "Let It Grow", the ARP moves from speaker to speaker, giving you the sensation that the music is revolving around you. Pretty cool!

 

I really like Hypnotic Eye, LA Woman and Honky Chateau

 

Mike Bloomfield / Al Kooper / Stephen Stills - Super Session

The Who - Quadrophenia

Blood, Sweat & Tears* - Blood, Sweat & Tears

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedoes

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Mojo

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers* - Hypnotic Eye

The Doobie Brothers - The Captain And Me

 

I believe that the best Fleetwood Mac's surround mix is Say You Will.

 

David Bowie - Young Americans (5.1 DTS mix)

As the Bowie heads here will know, this was part of the 2007 special edition release of YA, complete with a new stereo remaster (which far surpasses the '99 and 2016 remasters to these ears) and some talkshow clips with David. It's a brilliant surround mix, the placement of all the instruments truly gives the music new life. I haven't heard many surround mixes so I'm by no means an expert, but I can tell that this is a fantastic piece of audio joy.

 

This is one I'd love to see on blu ray one day:

 

What do you like about it?

 

The 3 Donald Fagen albums (along with Steely Dan's "Two Against Nature" and "Everything Must Go") are true sonic, and surround, spectaculars. You might not like every track song-wise, but for detail and superb surround mixing, it's hard to get better than these.

The mixes on "Kamakiriad" and "Morph the Cat" are reasons alone to invest in a 5.1 system as the clarity, separation and spaciouseness of the audio presentation are truly remarkable.

Get these in HiRez while you can. (NOTE: The Fagen Box Set is DVD surround, not DVD-A. It's the aborted WB MVI format. What was up with that anyway?)

 

Van Morrison-Moondance BluRay
Eagles-Hotel California DVD-A
Doobie Brothers Captain and Me DVD-A
Yes Blu Rays All of Them
Chicago Quadio Blu Ray
Fleetwood Mac S/T DVD 5.1

This is just a small sampling but some of my favorites that I play often and really have that really sound superb in my opinion .

 

Is the Ziggy Stardust surround DVD-A any good?

 

Absolutely nothing. One of the most shrill, loud 5.1 mixes of all time. Unlistenable, and weird, since all other FM 5.1s are great.

 

Sadly, I agree...