Rachael, you misinterpreted what I was trying to get at. I'm not as much interested in the localizations of the instruments (although I agree with you, I don't like any "gimmicky" sound like I get on my Billy Joel's 52nd Street multichannel disk)...but I was more referring to ambient...
Rachael,
On Jazz at the Pawnshop, it is an active 5.1 mix? My main interest in this title is due to the fact it's a live recording I think it would feel like I was right in the club with the artists soaking in the ambiance. Is this the case? Or is the surround mix stale and laid back? I'm...
Speaking of Jazz on SACD...anyone out there got Terence Blanchard's "Let's Get Lost" or the two disk "Jazz at the Pawnshop" compliation on SACD and provide a review?
I buy the music I want in the format I can find it on...which is more likely to be CD than SACD..that's for sure. When I know a title is going to be released on SACD (Like the new Alison Krauss and Union Station release "New Favorite") I will wait for that, but when that's not the case, it...