Customer Reviews

Bach Classics [DVD Audio]

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Though I am generally more interested in complete works, this collection of Bach's better known movements is a delight and with the high resolution sound of DVD Audio, with surround sound, it is absolutely sumptuous. This is a taste of things to come, when we will be able to get more complete compositions by the great composers on DVD Audio. If you are a "Greatest Hits" type classical listener, you will love this DVD.

The good :

- The sound on this recording is absolutely great in 5.1 surround. I played the DTS 5.1 track. My Yamaha receiver indicated a 1536 kbps bit rate and 48 kHz sampling rate, which is quite good. The DD 2.0 track is only 192 kbps and does not sound nearly as good. I couldn't try the MLP 5.1 track since I don't have a DVD-audio player (and my receiver's 6-channel input is taken by the SACD player).
With the surround version, you really feel as if you are in the concert hall. I'm a Bach fan and I thought the performances were very good.

The bad :
- There are no useful notes packaged with this recording - nothing about the music or the pieces.
There aren't even BWV numbers for most of the pieces.
Unfortunately, this seems to be a frequent omission with discs from DTS entertainment (I'm judging by the dozen or DTS CDs I bought from them - this is the first DVD-audio I purchased).
- I was unable to pause the music when playing the disc in my Panasonic RV60 DVD-video player. This is quite inconvenient. I can pause all other discs (DVD-video, CDs, ...) in the same player, but not this one. The "forbidden" icon is displayed, just like when playing FBI copyright warning tracks in DVD-video discs ... I hope that DTS will fix this in problem future discs !!!

Note to "a music fan" :
The disc does include an MLP 5.1 track which is only playable in DVD-audio players. So it is definitely a DVD-audio disc.
If - you are using a DVD-video player, then you will only be able to select the DD 2.0 and DTS 5.1 tracks, but the MLP5.1 track is still visible, just not selectable.

I purchased this dvd to check out my new dvd audio setup and it turns out that this is just a DTS dvd with a video track of title listing. I was very dissapointed and misled.