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

Keep up with the thread.

 

You are quoting a post from last August....maybe I'm not the one behind. Or I'm not getting what you're getting at.

 

This thread is about surround albums, not movies. I am glad that you are still here.

 

No love for Roxy Music's Avalon SACD? I love it.

 

it's great ... they need to do some more .... and not in big expensive box sets

 

Any Steve Wilson YES/KING CRIMSON mixes for 5.1 are quite astounding.

 

I'm sure I would love it, if I could afford a copy ! Maybe if I had won the Powerball last week

 

The first two Blood Sweat and Tears albums are a good listen. The first one was mixed with Al Kooper's involvement.

 

Mine was Dire Straits Brothers in Arms sacd

 

The Quad mix in this set sounds better to me than the remaster or the "original stereo", even downsampled to stereo:

 

I actually have grown to very much enjoy "Say you will" I found by increasing the rears 5-6 db it sounds great...give it a try

 

Oh well...buy it again

Always try adjusting your levels ive found...i need to buy a box of post it notes n start marking my cliff notes...levels

On Chicago quadio i need to lower my surrounds...some disc i need to raise...it varies

 

That's the way Wayne planned it!

 

Mike Oldfield - Tubullar Bells (5.1)
Carlos Santana - Greatst Hits (Q4)
Isao Tomita- The Planets (5.1)

 

Another vote for Roxy - Avalon
All Eltons
Steely Dan- Gaucho
Doobies - Capt. & Me
Tom Petty - Hypnotic Eye
F. Mac - Rumours
Eagles - Hotel
Beatles - many
Doors - Perception set

Snippet of wish list (ie I wish they were in 5.1)- Al Stewart YOTC & Time Passages & Gordon Lightfoot, any!

 

& how could I forget Harvest - Neil Young or Deep P - Machine Head!
Tut tut

 

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Hi, Am wondering if my Sony UDP-X800 blu-ray player can play the multi-channel WB MVI disc- playable discs shown below don't include. Any idea? Thanks!

Playable discs:

Blu-ray:
Disc*1
Ultra HD Blu-ray, BD-ROM,
BD-R*2/BD-RE*2

DVD:
DVD*3 DVD-ROM, DVD-R/
DVD-RW, DVD+R/DVD+RW,
DVD AUDIO*4

CD:
CD*3 CD-DA (Music CD),
CD-ROM, CD-R/CD-RW,
Super Audio CD

 

It should - I have the Black Sabbath Dio Years with the MVI disc & my crappy old Sony BDP-S370 does, as does my old Panasonic DMP BD65
Ah hang on, you said multi channel - mySabbath disc ain't multi channel.....
But I do have the Fagan MVI set as well - i'll check it on the Sony for you - no guarantee of yours though....

Ok, so yes, my BDP-S370 does & sounds great. Surely your far better X800 would!

 

The MVI discs are just DVD's with DD (and in some cases DTS) audio tracks. Any DVD/BluRay player will play them. I suppose that was the reason for their existence. You did not need a special player to get the audio and surround.

 

My favorites :
Beatles - Love (DVD-A)
Beatles - White Album (HD-DTS)
Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales (DTS)
Eagles - Hotel California (DVD-Audio)
Eagles - Farewell 1 Tour (DTS)
Pink Floyd - DSOTM (SACD)
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (SACD)
Deep Purple - Machine Head (SACD)
Deep Purple - Machine Head (DVD-Audio)
Deep Purple - Fireball (DVD-A) Bootleg
Deep Purple - Who Do We Think We Are
(DVD-Audio) (Bootleg)
Paul McCartney - The McCartney Years (DTS)
Paul McCartney - Ram (DTS) (Bootleg)
The Who - Who's Next (DVD-Audio) (Bootleg)
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Angel Station (DVD-Audio) (Bootleg)
Supertramp - Crime Of The Century / Crisis What Crisis / Breakfast In America (DVD-Audio) (Bootleg)
Chicago - Chicago II (DVD-Audio)
CCR - Same (DVD-Audio) (Bootleg)

 

One rarely mentioned - DVD audio of Todd Rundgren Liars.

Not only is it a really terrific surround mix, it's arguably the best audio quality of anything Todd has ever released.

I'll take this opportunity to repeat my call for a surround music streaming service, delivered via set-top boxes like the Roku, Amazon Firestick and Apple TV. We have all these people with surround sound systems in the form of their home theater systems, most of whom have never heard surround music other than via movie soundtracks.

 

Santana - Abraxas ....Wow it sounds good

 

The first thing i did after getting into music in surround was take out my rear bipole fluance speakers that were on stands.. I had originally intended the 5.1 setup for movies...bought another set of full size speakers floorstanders

VERY BIG Difference w full size / full range speakers for ur surround s with music!

I don't have rears! I've got surround s / sides!