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In Reply to: Fleetwood Mac Rumours....1st post so be nice please posted by Fatbosco on October 5, 2005 at 18:28:02:
I too have been using a cheap Pioneer universal player - the 563A. I have the Rumors DVD-A and it is very good. I have not compared it to the remastered redbook version, but the DVD-A has higher sampling and bit rates. I would be very surprised if the DVD-A was not (at least) as good as the redbook disc.FWIW I think the two best sounding (?) DVD-A's I have are Neil Young's Harvest and Grateful Dead's American Beauty. This may be ue in part to my rig and that I only listen in 2 channel, but both discs are noticeably higer rez than their CD counterparts.
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The Fleetwood Mac DVD-A is indeed a great sounding disk. But then, so was the LP release when it first came out. I have not compared the various formats, but you probably can't go wrong with any of them.The DVD-A does give you introductions and/or discussion by the band members regarding the specific tracks. I believe there are additional tracks and a few mixes that are different from the original. It also provides you with a 5.1 surround format which is top notch.
I cannot vouch for the 2 channel rendition of the DVD-A Mac disk. If that is what interests you, you might want to check to see if its a "fold down" stereo track, If so, I'd avoid it and go with the CD. Also, I was not at all happy with the multi channel "Harvest" format. Reminded me of music processed through an ambience extractor. Not that thats so bad, but its not why I buy MC DVD-As.
The stereo is not a downmix - it isn't on most DVD-A.This disc really is very well made, even though it is one of the early releases.
Well worth buying.
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I forget, what is "fold down?"
Not a perfect process
None of that in my listening room!
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