Music For The Lexicon!

[BacktoHyundaibychoice]

Great thread! I have some things on my wish list now

My recommendation is Blue Man Group "Audio" on DVD-A. It's a great instrumental/percussion showcase disc that sounds fantastic, both on the Lexicon and on a good surround home theater setup.

Amazon link: Amazon.com: Blue Man Group - Audio: Blue Man Group: Music

Review: http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/2488/blue-man-group-audio/

Review: http://www.highfidelityreview.com/reviews/review.asp?reviewnumber=238323

Made the list here too, with a 9.14 (out of 10). Good suggestion!

http://www.quadraphonicquad.com/QQHiRezPoll2004.htm

 

[OBCT]

A disc I'm enjoying that didn't make the QuadrophonicQuad surround poll list is Gus Black's [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Uncivilized-Love-Gus-Black/dp/B000095J32/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1260399024&sr=8-7"]Uncivilized Love[/ame].

You can pick it up for $5 including s&h as a like new item thru Amazon Marketplace (I got it for $4 about a couple of months ago this way!).


EDIT: It's pretty much a straight forward rock album. Not ultra energetic or interesting, but certainly not boring, either. Just sounds really good to me in the Genesis, and is a style I like (I'd call the genre... "Modern Adult Rock").

 

[GeneYus]

2009...My best Christmas in some years..Every day my mailman is bringing me "presents"..My latest DVD-A du jour !!!

Question: is that Ultimate Sampler and 5.1 set-up disc a worthy purchase for arranging the sound on the Lexicon, or is it just personal preference??

Regards,

Steve

 

[GeneYus]

This looks interesting, will let you know how it sounds when it arrives from Amazon:

Leading new-music composer Phil Kline debuts a major work, Around the World in a Daze, on a new surround sound DVD released by Starkland (http://www.starkland.com/). The 65-minute studio composition was commissioned by Starkland specifically for high-resolution surround sound and to premiere on DVD.

This formidable project is the brainchild of Starkland founder and one-man-army Tom Steenland. He states, "I love surround sound and think it's an exhilarating format for contemporary composers," adding, "Phil is a wonderful composer, and much of his music is inherently spatial. The idea of commissioning a major work from Phil to premiere on a surround sound recording was compelling and irresistible."

Daze opens with the multi-channel ambiance near Kline's home in New York City's lower East Side, glides into an ethereal Ethel string quartet, peaks with a massive climax presenting hundreds of thousands of super-dense bells, shifts to the soaring violinistics of Todd Reynolds, and concludes with an immersive environment of 15,000 chattering, African gray parrots.


Along the way, listeners are also seduced by swirling, hypersampled Wagner, a weird madrigal about bitterness and bees, a Bach prelude eerily processed into a Zurich train station, and a mournfully multi-tracked "wailing wall."

The main DVD offers Daze in several formats for various playback setups: standard-DVD Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround; higher quality DTS 5.1; highest-quality uncompressed DVD-Audio; and PCM stereo. Playback of the Daze music is accompanied by over 80 images shot by Kline.

http://www.starkland.com/s2015/index.htm

Can't find your review on this disc..recommendable??

Steve

 

[BacktoHyundaibychoice]

2009...My best Christmas in some years..Every day my mailman is bringing me "presents"..My latest DVD-A du jour !!!

Question: is that Ultimate Sampler and 5.1 set-up disc a worthy purchase for arranging the sound on the Lexicon, or is it just personal preference??

Regards,

Steve

I don't think so, they're more for a home setup than the Lex/Gen. Let your ears be the judge, disc by disc!

 

[BacktoHyundaibychoice]

Can't find your review on this disc..recommendable??

Steve

Yes and no. Sorry to equivocate, but...

Some of the tracks are extemely interesting or beautiful, others are rather boring and repetitive. I'd recommend it if you believe in supporting new material on DVD-A (as I do), but wouldn't if you don't care about that.

What I WOULD recommend are the new DVD-A releases of King Crimson. Masterful multi-channel mixes of (mostly) great material. Start with "In the Court of the Crimson King"...

 

[GeneYus]

Yes and no. Sorry to equivocate, but...

Some of the tracks are extemely interesting or beautiful, others are rather boring and repetitive. I'd recommend it if you believe in supporting new material on DVD-A (as I do), but wouldn't if you don't care about that.

What I WOULD recommend are the new DVD-A releases of King Crimson. Masterful multi-channel mixes of (mostly) great material. Start with "In the Court of the Crimson King"...

Scary..I was just looking at that on Amazon... How about Lizard also ??

 

[GeneYus]

While I'm at it, the Phil Kline Around the World in Daze looks like a play also !!

 

[BacktoHyundaibychoice]

Scary..I was just looking at that on Amazon... How about Lizard also ??

I have Lizard and Red also, all 3 are mixed beautifully. Here's a review of ITCOTCK:

http://www.adequacy.net/2009/12/kin...of-the-crimson-king-40th-anniversary-edition/

 

[slvslv]

Yeah! I've been listening to King Crimson's "Red" and "In The Court of The Crimson King" too. Great mixes. And great sound. "Red" is one of my all-time favorites. Looking forward to "Lizard!" It's on pre-order at Amazon.

And let me say again that Porcupine Tree's latest, "The Incident," is awesome, too! "I Drive the Hearse" is a beauty!

Rock on!

Brent

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[GeneYus]

Most recent purchase is ELP's Brain Salad Surgery. Outstanding. Anything Rhino touches is top notch IMO. Only difficulty I seem to have is accessing other content in "groups". This disc is supposed to have various videos also, yet I can't seem to access them. Same on other discs. A little confusing to me.
However, overall I'm super pleased with the superb sound from my DVD-A's. Up to about a dozen now(practically all recommendations from this thread). Look forward to some new purchases soon.

Thanks

Steve

 

[bobferg2]

I have purchased the Eagles "Hell Freezes . . ", but can't get "7 Bridges Road" to play at all (the audio only DTS 5.1 selection). I also have the Blue Man Group's "Complex Rock Tour Live" where side "B" has all the selections in DTS & Dolby Surround. Inserted either side up, my Lexicon prefers to access only side A. I have gone over both these disks, trying all known settings and menus, and still can't get them to play 5.1, only regular stereo, even though constantly selected.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Bob F.

 

[BacktoHyundaibychoice]

Yeah! I've been listening to King Crimson's "Red" and "In The Court of The Crimson King" too. Great mixes. And great sound. "Red" is one of my all-time favorites. Looking forward to "Lizard!" It's on pre-order at Amazon.

And let me say again that Porcupine Tree's latest, "The Incident," is awesome, too! "I Drive the Hearse" is a beauty!

Rock on!

Brent

I hear that "The Incident" will be released on DVD-A 5.1 in Feb.
Holy crap!

 

[BacktoHyundaibychoice]

Most recent purchase is ELP's Brain Salad Surgery. Outstanding. Anything Rhino touches is top notch IMO. Only difficulty I seem to have is accessing other content in "groups". This disc is supposed to have various videos also, yet I can't seem to access them. Same on other discs. A little confusing to me.
However, overall I'm super pleased with the superb sound from my DVD-A's. Up to about a dozen now(practically all recommendations from this thread). Look forward to some new purchases soon.

Thanks

Steve

Interesting about groups/videos. I find they aren't always in the order listed on the sleeve, and trial and error is my friend. As for videos, I'm usually driving and they won't play anyway!

 

[BacktoHyundaibychoice]

New release!

George Benson, Songs And Stories. Smooth jazz isn't everyone's cup of tea, But the 5.1 mix is superb on this.
I got it at Best Buy, $16.99, CD/DVD combo.

Enjoy!

 

[GripperDon]

Interesting about groups/videos. I find they aren't always in the order listed on the sleeve, and trial and error is my friend. As for videos, I'm usually driving and they won't play anyway!

My unit only cuts out the video but the music (sound) keeps playing.

 

[knight]

For those of you who have 12 or 15 discs, where do you store them or the empty cases in the car? The drivers manual and DIS manual take up most of the glove box and I don't like putting anything that can rattle in the door pockets, so I have found that I have to shuttle discs into and out of my car. DVD cases don't seem to fit nicely anywhere. I don't even have a big collection, maybe 5 to 10 plus an audiobook. It was true of my other car also, but this car is much bigger, yet doesn't have a lot more interior storage space.

-knight

 

[dataguy]

6 in the changer, the rest in a visor organizer. Good or bad, I haven't found more than a handful of really good surround discs.

 

[DesertGen]

I have around 50 discs at this time, a combination of dvd-a's, dts cd's and dvd's. (when will this addiction to 5.1 end?!) I make a clone copy of each so as not to damage the original. (payed big bucks for some of the best dvd-a's)

I keep the copies in a case logic soft disc holder, which fits perfectly in the glove box. I took the manuals out and put them in the net in the trunk.

 

[kaberle]

Do yourselves a favor and pick up a DVD-A in surround sound by the Blue Man Group called "Audio" I got mine at CDUniverse..... It will test your subwoofer but generally speaking if set up right and at a volumn of about 23 it will shake your insides...... you will feel the music more than hear it......