I hit the jackpot tonight.

I ordered like 8 BD and SACD discs. Five came in today.

1) BD Patriot. Same exact experience I had at Ron's house. LPCM Mix shines and DD from player not quite as good as Meridian doing DD. Extremely good sound effects. I even played with boosting levels in case that is the difference and it was not.

2) BD Celine Dion Live in Las Vegas. This has some high bandwith formats (2 Channel 24/96 PCM, TrueHD 5.1 24/96 and DD 5.1 448). The recording is a little bass light compared to studio recordings. But for a Live recording it is very very good otherwise.

3) BD Blue Man Group How To Be a Megastar Live. Similar Celine Dion. Light on bass compared to studio recordings but otherwise good. Not sure I'd call it reference though. Need to listen more. But watching these guys is fun. If you have never seen them get it.

4) BD Indiana Jones - Kindom of the Crystal Skull. Not sure yet on the audio quality. I was disappointed that the really cool THX Logo was not in TrueHD even though it sounds like it is even though it's DD.

5) SACD The Who - Tommy (SACD 5.1, SACD 2.0, CD all on one disc) Ron had recommended this DVDA a while back to me and on the board. I always listen to samples before buying anything. And it just didn't tempt me at the time. When I saw the SACD I listened to samples again and thought what was I thinking. It's fantastic. When I switched back to the CD version I was amazed how good this mix is. I love the HYBRID SACD's because they are trivial to rip to SqueezeBox.

A few times the G68 went into Music2 mode and I got no center or surrounds and I had to reselect the source on G68 and/or stop and start the disk. Once locked into 5.1 it never went into 2.0 on it's own. It was only when loading discs or selecting soures.

- Fiddler (IMHO)

If you think listening to music is fun, try learning an instrument.
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