Two "Classic" rock albums are being released on DVD-A in the next few weeks.

Yes-Close to the Edge

Yes-Close to the Edge

XTC-Nonsuch

XTC-Nonsuch

Early reviews of the Yes disc played in an Acura have been very good.

 

I'm pumped about "Yes!"

 

Good news for DVD-A fans.

 

how do you update your gracenote?..first what is a gracenote? is it the radio software to make sure the its up to date or it is used to update your media that is storeed so far on the HDD so that we get ablum info?

 

Great find-I'd like to get the YES disc.

 

Sold my DVD-A's on eBay when the price went through the roof. But I must admit, I'd love to own that one.

 

Pardon what is probably a stupid question, but I see on Rhino's website that they are releasing a newly remastered version of Van Morrison's Moondance. One of the releases is:
Blu-Ray Audio disc with high-resolution 48K 24 bit PCM stereo and DTS-HD Master, Audio 5.1 surround sound audio of original album (no video)

I assume we cannot play that on our Acura DVD-A player...

 

^^^^^

A Blu-Ray disc won't work on DVD and DVD-A players.

 

^^ This is correct.

 

You can rip it with foobar then burn it with HD audio solo to a dvd-a - 48 24 bitrate is low enough so that you will not need to create groups

 

I just ordered the YES disc.

 

Yes, it's the database that applies album information to discs that are ripped to your HDD. You can update it using a burned disc, I believe, but the easier and more cost effective way is to simply use a USB thumbdrive.

Go to this site to grab the update, unzip to the thumbdrive (not in a folder, but in the root directory), and then plug into your car. Update takes a stupid amount of time, for what it is, but should be done within about 15 minutes. The updates are supposed to be quarterly, but lately that's the exception. Next update is supposed to come out this month, but I'm not holding my breath.

 

I must say for a very casual Yes fan, Close to the Edge sounds unbelievably fantastic in the TL. The XTC disc sounds great also. I just wish they did Skylarking first.

 

This CD still has not shipped yet-makes me skeptical.

 

The Deluxe edition of the new Dream Theater album comes with a 5.1 DVD-A mix. Haven't had a chance to listen to it yet.

 

I've got this on the way. I've heard it on on spotify (high quality) and it has some great songs but the drum and vocal mixing are kind of off IMO... worst snare since Images and Words, but plenty of bass and some of the best guitar tones so I'm hoping the 5.1 dvd-a will slay.

Here is a great resource for seeing what is available in rock DVD-A.

http://www.quadraphonicquad.com/dvdalist.htm

So far my favorites have been Steven Wilson - Insurgentes and No Man - Together We're Stranger, but I went kinda nuts and have Rush - Moving Pictures, Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun, PT - Fear of a Blank Planet, PT - The Incident on the way. I'd be all over Deadwing and In Absentia if they didn't cost so damn much but I have a feeling I'll cave in and buy them eventually... just looking for a better deal.

Honestly I sometimes just sit in my car with the engine off to admire this amazing system (TSX SW) and am trying to figure out what's the best way to do that without worrying about needing to replace the battery sooner.

 

So I went to the site above and I am not sure I understand. Once you buy a track or album from them, so you burn it to DVD and let the TL headunit read that as a DVD-A or are you downloading them as compressed files and playing them from a player (iPod)?

Their site does not explain much about the playback options.

 

I finally got shipment verification from Amazon on the Yes CD. It should arrive this week.

 

My Rush - Moving Pictures DVD-A spends more time playing in my TL than any other disc. It just sounds so good that I never want to take it out. PT - Fear of a Blank Planet also sounds amazing as well as The Beatles - Love.
To me the worst thing about most DVD-A's is that they sound so good I can't listen to CD's or MP3's anymore in my car. They just sound terrible to me and it forces me to buy more expensive DVD-A's to have a nice assortment of music.

 

I'm with you on that... it's almost a mixed blessing that there aren't that many DVD-A out there. But I still enjoy the 2 CDs on my two channel setup at home so it's all good!

Can't wait for Moving Pictures now! Reading through the reviews on that site I posted it seemed like they really got the mix right on that one.

King Crimson - Discipline sounded great too... such a short album but songs like Frame by Frame really sound great.

It all makes you realize that the 5.1 audio concept has so much potential that seems like it won't be realized. The number of people doing mixing is few and the number doing mastering and authoring is even fewer, which is strange considering that 5.1 has been around practically forever in video DVDs.

Anyway, very fun stuff and it really makes having this car an even more special experience for me.

Do you mean the link I posted? It's more like a directory of some good DVD-A releases. If you click on them you get to a review page. I didn't realize there were any downloads.

I found it useful after buying two Opeth special editions for the DVDs and finding out that they were authored as DVD-video and won't play in that system.

Also worth repeating a great tip I found on this forum... hold 6 on the newer model cars to change the group number and go between 5.1, hi res stereo, alternate mixes, etc..

 

My YES disc arrived today. I'll try it out tomorrow night.


I got home late and my wife goest to bed early-she's a nurse and wakes up at 4:30 AM.

 

Off Topic - I was in that same boat for years until my wife got her masters degree. Now she has a better schedule, an easier job, and makes more money to boot.

Oh and I don't get woken up by her alarm way early in the morning either.

 

Perfect time for a joyride no?

 

A buttload of CDs came in today. I started with Anathema's We're Here Because We're Here. Great album. I definitely heard a lot of stuff I never noticed before on the CD, like bird chirps and weird ambient noise. I also loved how some of the background vocals were literally mixed to the back. The one thing is that SW's mix seems to have a lot more energy in the low end. This brought more liveliness to some parts but it also made it a heavier listen, even fatiguing, which is weird considering how gentle of an album it is.

 

I just received my Rush Moving Pictures DVD-A from Amazon. Totally awesome. My new favorite, highly recomended!

 

Yep, my favorite out of all my DVD-A's and it spends a lot of time playing in my TL, constantly battling it out with PT - Fear of a Blank Planet. I don't hear much discrete channel stuff going on except for Vital Signs which has the guitar bouncing all around. They also changed some of the drum parts in Witch Hunt which sounded strange at first but now I'm used to it.
This is the best mixed of all the Rush DVD-A's imo. They took a perfect album and made it sound better.

 

I finally got a chance to listen to Close To The Edge! The surround sound mix is excellent. I love hearing specific little things out of every different speaker. This is good-it's worth the purchase. Just know that this is not what I call a great "commercial" album. There is a bonus track of "America" on the disc too.

 

How's the SQ of the latest Rush dvd?

Even their SACD sound garbage.

 

^^^ It's OK-sometimes these 5.1 mixes are not good. It all depends on the engineers putting it together.

 

I enjoy DVD-A in my Acura every single day. But my run of Acura's will come to an end. The new gen Acura's don't have DVD-A capability. The RLX and new MDX specifically. So when my current Acura gets old and goes out to pasture, my loyalty to Acura will die with it.

Plenty of other luxury brands still support DVD-A, at least as an option. Not sure how much money Acura is really saving by removing a feature that it championed.

 

I made it clear to my Acura dealer that if the new TLX doesn't support DVD-A then my 2013 TL will be my first and last Acura. I was shocked that none of the RLX stereos support DVD-A. Bad move Acura.

 

DVD-A is a dead audio format, and it makes perfect business sense for audio equipment manufacturers (Acura included) not to support obsolete technology.

 

^^^ This is exactly correct........unfortunately.

 

Just saw this thread. I bought the Yes Close to the Edge dvd audio. None of the bonus material, including America will play on my 2012 TL Advance. All i can play are the 3 original tracks which are CTTE, And You and I, and Siberian Khatru. Does anyone else with 4th gen TO have this disc?

 

Where did you find it?

 

Pretty much any where

 

Do a Google search for "Dark Side of The Moon DVD Audio Torrent" and burn a copy of the Alan Parsons Quadraphonic mix. It's mixed flawlessly and sounds stunning through the ELS system.

* The DVD-A version is floating around on the internet and may be considered a "pirated" version. However, the record label that owns the rights to DSoTM released a SACD and scrapped the project to release a DVD-A to retail decades ago. I do not know the details, but since the DVD-A is not available for sale, sharing it will not infringe on the profits of the company who owns the rights to it. If I am out of line or against the rules for this forum, please let me know. Didn't post a direct link to any URL just in case.

 

Impossible. Up to this moment, there is still no viable way to defeat the anti-copying watermark on DVD-A, which will only allow "pirated" discs to play the first 3 mins of music on every copied track.

 

The watermark is not on every disc. I have a copy of DSoTM that plays just fine. I've burned a number of DVD-A's, both from torrent, and as copies of original discs I own (I try not to keep originals in the car).

 

Bump because I'm still enjoying the hell out of DVD-A in my 2011 TSX Wagon. The collection hasn't grown much, but as the years have gone by my ears have picked up on more and more details in the recordings and how they were mixed.