[SurroundSound] Santa Claws was nice and gave me the Jethro Tull DVD

Well after all the hoopla I caused over at QQ I finally was able to
listen to the Jethro Tull Aqualung 5.1 and Quad on DVD.

The Quad was very good and matched the CD-4 version wonderfully. It
was nice not to have channels drop from the bad carrier signal and in
fact this had more detail than it's vinyl counterpart. There is that
familiar 70's static hum present on lots of early 70's recordings and
I can say at least in my opinion this realistically sounds like it
came off the original master tape. Besides the loss of carrier I could
not tell side by side the Vinyl and DVD. A great transfer and I hope
our friends at the executive level release more of this material.

Alas the 5.1 mix. It turned out to be exactly as I was prepared for. I
will say this. There was wayyyy more imaging and placement in this
then the J.G. WYWH. To compare the mix I ran a CD I made of the Stereo
through my Audiosource Dolby Surround and did a side by side with Mr.
Wilsons surround. What do you know? No difference except the stereo
was way over the top louder. I am not sure if anyone picked up on the
fact Locomotive Breath is from a completely different take than was
used for the original album. Both the Stereo and 5.1 have this issue.
While good it is missing alot of information for instance the
tambourine after the solo, but I suppose others are happy with missing
info. My hope is that future Surround releases are not the Dolby
Surround stuff I can create at home and have been for years. Since I
bought the Audiosource in the late 80's it has done cool things with
alot of my more intense stereo recordings. So if that be the case I
will need to stick with vinyl on the stereo side. Ohh.... Forgot that
static hum, Hey Mr. Wison, Where Did it go???? And what other minute
detail did you delete with it??

Also take a listen to My God in Quad then 5.1. On the Quad the chior
is in all channels and individual voice pop out and knock you over. On
the 5.1 it is placed front far left as if from a church in the
distance. Maybe Ian intended it to be that way originally? Don't know.
And also why would the flute be in the rear and then jump to the
center front? He did bolt around alot live but not in my listening
area.....

Ok. Review is done. Someone else chime in.

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