Some new hi-rez titles....

[Ben_Wood]

Bighitter, what DVD-As do you have?

[Bighitter]

Linkin Park - Re-animation
Doors - LA Woman
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors

[Mag_Neato]

Just picked up a Peter Gabriel SACD at lunch. I forgot the title, but it has Solsbury hill, Sledgehammer, etc., all remastered. Some sort of compilation disc. Has anyone heard this disc? Also, Curtis, I have not really hooked up the 563a yet(gotta find time), is there any setup tips for SACD playback not mentioned in the manual?

Thanks,

MAG

[curtis]

Yeah...it is defaulted to play SACD in two-channel mode....you have to read the manual and get it into multichannel. I thought my was broken until I read the manual.

-curtis

[Dave Nelms]

Curtis-

I have an interesting DVD-Audio disc called 'Crash Boom Bang'.

Really a fun one with the kids. It is a disc that contains all of the sound effects from the Warner Brother Looney Tunes cartoons. It also has a few funny little adds in 5.1. But the best part is to listen with the kids to an audio only version of 'Duck Dodgers'.

Dave Nelms

[curtis]

Cool! We watch Duck Dodgers!

-curtis

[Mag_Neato]

Uuhhh....heh heh...he said "Dodgers"! I digress...Curtis, I noticed the SACD says stereo on the case, if I set output of player to multi-channel will that mess anything up playback-wise?

Thanks,

MAG

[curtis]

Some SACD's are only 2-channel. If the player is set to multi-channel, the 2-channel discs will still play fine.

-curtis

[Dave Nelms]

Hey Curtis-

I was looking at another unnamed home theater forum (opps, I guess I just named it) anyway, and someone sugested listening to Emmerson Lake and Palmer's DVD-A of Brain Salad Surgery for some good bass in one of the songs.

I always loved the album but thought the DVD-a mix was just a little too surround. Perhaps i should use this for some critical listening.

Dave Nelms

[Dave Nelms]

Saw the Blue Man Groups new concert on Direct Tv the other night. Unable to view it in my theater room so I could not comment on the audio. However, I checked thier web site and the new DVD will have 3 songs from thier new album which will be mastered in 5.1.

It should be really good. there was no word on if the concert is recorded in 5.1 but I cannot imagine it not being done that way but worse things have happened.

Dave Nelms