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Well, in stereo it sounds superb. Buckingham's production skills are in a league of their own. Many of the songs are pretty good too. Stevie Nicks' tunes get turbo-charged when Buckingham arranges them.
Can't comment on the surround mix of this DVD-Audio as I don't have my surround element of my system in place (I listen to music much more than I watch movies, so the Musical Fidelity A300 is causing the HK AVR510 to catch dust right now).
5.1 mixes of albums are in the extreme infancy and therefore not raising many hairs on the back of my neck with their rear effects. The 5.1 mixer-folk will get better at it in the same way that stereo mixes got a lot better throughout the 70's and 80's.
I still don't see the need for a center channel when front left and right have always managed to fool me into hearing certain sounds come from between the two speakers.
The redbook layer of SYW sounds considerably inferior to the DVD-Audio layer. I've yet to compare this redbook layer with the regular CD release of SYW to see if this is just sound desk masking to make DVD-Audio sound superior to any ear.If you don't mind this kind of music (soft rock, pop whatever) this disc is a good purchase. If dig the Mac you'll love this. Christine who?
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> The redbook layer of SYW sounds considerably inferior to the DVD-Audio layer. I've yet to compare this redbook layer with the regular CD release of SYW to see if this is just sound desk masking to make DVD-Audio sound superior to any ear. <There is no "redbook layer" on this DVD-Audio disc. The Red Book is the standard that defines a Compact Disc, ie. 44.1kHz 16-bit PCM. The Fleetwood Mac disc has no such thing...
And my SACD1000 player plays redbook discs way better than my Panasonic DVDRA60K. This is what makes me suspicious of the limited non-DVD-Audio layer. I think you'll find this disc won't play in 24/96 on anything other than a DVD-Audio compatible player.
> And my SACD1000 player plays redbook discs way better than my Panasonic DVDRA60K. This is what makes me suspicious of the limited non-DVD-Audio layer. I think you'll find this disc won't play in 24/96 on anything other than a DVD-Audio compatible player. <The SACD1000 is an SACD, CD and DVD-Video player. It can't and won't play DVD-Audio content.
Once again, there is no CD layer on the Fleetwood Mac disc, and on the DVD-Video layer there is no PCM content whatsoever. Both the multi-channel and two-channel tracks on the DVD-Video layer are 448kb/s Dolby Digital.
You're right, the disc won't play back at 24-bit 96kHz on anything other than a DVD-Audio player, but that shouldn't come as a surprise, it's a DVD-Audio disc.
Are you sure your Philips is not downsampling (perhaps to 48kHz)? Have you checked your setup? If yes, the problem is with the Philips unit.If there is a 24/96 track available on the DVD-V section, there's no reason for having a lower quality. In effect, the 24/96 section is generally the same, accessible via both menus. This is usually done in order to save space on the disc.
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so the comparison could be on separate discs. The poster is not clear that is true but don't jump to conclusions. And why not register??
> The poster is not clear that is true but don't jump to conclusions. <What conclusions?! The original text is crystal clear. If you didn't catch it the first time:
" The redbook layer of SYW sounds considerably inferior to the DVD-Audio layer. I've yet to compare this redbook layer with the regular CD release of SYW to see if this is just sound desk masking to make DVD-Audio sound superior to any ear. "
What's not to understand. I just pointed out that the DVD-Audio disc, which is what was mentioned, has no Red Book layer. Period. If "ppopp" compared the DVD-Audio disc to the CD version, fine, but that's not what he said.
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