Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms SACD

polkatese
polkatese Posts: 6,767
edited March 2011 in Music & Movies
Got the house to myself this morning, so I put on the SACD version, turned the volume knob to about 10 c'lock (plenty loud), close my eyes...

I can smell my old apartment, my old B&W DM110 with Proton Integrated, college single life, old room-mate, laughter of the old gangs, Statics 101 mid-term exam group study...

damned memories. what a life was.
I am sorry, I have no opinion on the matter. I am sure you do. So, don't mind me, I just want to talk audio and pie.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,959
    edited March 2011
    heh. I was listening to the licorice pizza version just yesterday (with fairly analogous evocations)
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  • polkatese
    polkatese Posts: 6,767
    edited March 2011
    On to Donald Fagen's "Nightfly" DVD-A...

    mhardy, old school!
    I am sorry, I have no opinion on the matter. I am sure you do. So, don't mind me, I just want to talk audio and pie.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,959
    edited March 2011
    srsly
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  • HHStuart
    HHStuart Posts: 263
    edited March 2011
    I had not heard this album before I bought it on SACD. It was better than I thought it was going to be. Quite enjoyable.
    Front - Polk LSiM 705, Center - Polk LSiM 704c, Rear - Polk LSi 7
    Subwoofer - Epik Legend
    Receiver (as Preamp) - Sony STR-DA3400 ES
    Amplifier - Outlaw 7125
    Television - 58" Samsung Plasma PN58B860
    Blu Ray - OPPO BDP 83
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  • gfong
    gfong Posts: 1,079
    edited March 2011
    Very nice SACD, the music seems to "fit" the multi-channel format very well!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,959
    edited March 2011
    I really do like Brothers in Arms but (even in the analog domain) it has a kind of dry, shimmery "digital" overall sound that isn't altogether to my liking.

    Just thought I'd share that, appropos of nothing.
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited March 2011
    gfong wrote: »
    Very nice SACD, the music seems to "fit" the multi-channel format very well!

    The multi-channel surround version of "Brothers in Arms" won the Grammy for "Best Surround Sound Album" when it was released on DualDisc/DVD-Audio back in 2005. Note that the SACD version was never released in the US, therefore no Grammy was credited to the SACD version. Dire Straits (and Mark Knopfler, for that matter) is signed to Warner Music affiliated labels in the US, and since Warner Music supports DVD-Audio....
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