SH Spotlight Play the Kinks "Waterloo Sunset" in stereo, check and fix or improve your stereo playback with it!

There's an effect similar to this in the chorus of Jon Bellion's "Pre-Occupied:"

 

Headphones can do the effect and get the background vocals to float out there. My headphones do it. The problem is that adjusting toe in and position of the headphones to maximize the effect gets to be rather difficult and not very practical unless you're the manufacturer designing the headphones and the ear pads.

 

Thank you for the tip! This should be fun. Gunna have to find that Kinks album and Deep Forest.

 

Sadly my 1999 Castle CD, a 20 track Best Of The Kinks has only two tracks in stereo, Victoria & Apeman. Is there a Stereo (or mostly stereo) comp out there?

 

The 2014 Essential Kinks has the stereo version.

 

If you've got a turntable, the 1972 vinyl comp "The Kink Kronikles" (not hard to find) has it. I just set up my speakers using Steve's technique and WOW! This forum is seriously the best

 

The CD as well.

 

Is this Reprise CD the stereo mix?

The Kinks - Something Else By The Kinks

I checked my entire collection and I don't have a single item (CD, vinyl, compilation, anything) that includes the stereo version of "Waterloo Sunset." I have at least a handful of the mono version, though ...

So I want to make sure I'm ordering a CD that features the stereo mix.

 

The Something Else stereo vinyl reissue does this. Just played on my new RP10

 

Just worked it with Essential Kinks CDs.

Now I can sleep.


Wow Victoria on this comp on my Oppo sounds Amazing.

 

We all long for the simple life we lived back in ‘13.

 

Thanks for the tip. I've just ordered the 2-CD Essential Kinks, in the hope that "Waterloo Sunset" on that collection will be a well-mastered stereo version.

 

Yes.

 

Sounds great to me. Celluloid Heroes also sounds awesone

 

Thanks for your reply. I have three turntables, one that I can link up to my computer & two others. Rather than buy a CD with the stereo version on I checked the I Tunes store & they had it there. Also a stereo version of David Watts so I bought them both.

 

This thread was so helpful for me. Thanks for all the posts. Found that ELP's Tarkus (the song) has a similar surround effect around 9:30 mark with keyboards attacking me from all sides, even behind me. From the iTunes download not sure about any other versions. Almost frightening!

 

I listened to my 50th Stereo vinyl copy again today, and the background vocals do float around the speakers but not too far out to the sides or around the listening position. I will have to get a copy of Kinks Kronicles and see how that goes.

 

If you have a Samsung 9, listen with headphones to BTO's Let It Ride or A-ha's Take On Me in Dolby Atmos Movie setting. You'll think some parts of the songs are floating around your chest.

 

Bought this CD some time ago Steve thanks to your recommendation. Now when a composer comes into our space to listen to the PA, I play this track for them

 

Oh god, the top end is so aweful sounding on that album..
I don’t understand why it would want to be emphasized..
I’ve got the ugly pink mono LP and a cheap reprise cd version..
I’ll have to search for the west German disc..

 

Ugly?