Customer Reviews

Experiemental Project [Blu-ray]

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One of the primary reasons I ordered this blu-ray disc was for the listening experience of this relatively new medium which has been well-received in the reviews I've read. I found this recording, however, to be only average in sound quality. I found the performance to be so-so as well.

This disc won't play on a computer with PowerDVD.

Also, I learned from a review site that it is really just a 5.1 transfer and re-encoded to DTS-HD--quoted here: "PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS RECORD WAS ORIGINALLY PRODUCED FOR 5.1 AND PRESENTED FOR 7.1 SURROUND SOUND REPRODUCTION TO PROVIDE YOU WITH UNIQUE ACOUSTIC REALITY EXPERIENCE." Given that the disc size is on 6GB, this clearly could fit on a DVD. I think they are just hoping that by putting it on Blu-ray that we will think it is DTS-HD Master Audio quality. It is not.

I bought three of this company's Blu-rays ... save your money and get the CD. Better yet, get an SACD version for real high-quality sound. I have "Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3," "Bach Orchestral Suites No. 1, 2 & 3," and "Vivaldi Four Seasons" in these discs. None will play in my Samsung Blu-ray player with the latest firmware. All play in my Panasonic. The sound quality is no better than standard quality 5.1 surround; in fact, I suspect they just copied the material from a standard 5.1 version. There's very little sound in the rear channels and virtually no separation. Sounds like stereo. Save your money, these are a rip-off.

I bought several blue ray 7.1 channel classical music titles from Amazon in 2009-2010, none of them live up to my expection. They simply do not play all the way through and for the part that they play, the audio is well below my expection. Those purchases were a waste of money for me and may be the technology or the available recording is not yet ready? (IMHO).

Caution - I just received this BD disk, and it will not play on my Samsung BD-P1500. I contacted mfg support and they told me many disks of this series are having problems and they are trying to update the codex used in the disks. They said the codex is altered, non-standard, but they will issue a firmware update soon that will at least make this disk work. I will wait to return the disk a week or so, then if there isn't a fix, I will return. NOTE: The disk will play on an older Sony BD player I have, but it is only 5.1 . This was to be one of my 7.1 trials. The disk may be a 5-star, but I can't tell you yet.