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Barclay James Harvest - Once Again [Deluxe Edition] (1971/2023) Blu-ray Audio
For those old-school fans that continue to maintain vintage quadraphonic decoding equipment, the inclusion of the SQ-encoded stereo mix on the Blu-Ray disc is a fun bonus. Interestingly enough, this is not the first time it's been reissued in a digital format: it appeared first on the 1998 Brimstone CD reissue and then again in the 2011 CD/DVD set. There are also some reports that the HDTracks high-resolution digital download of Once Again is sourced from the SQ-encoded master.
Though this set is a great value and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to any immersive music enthusiast, I was kind of disappointed to find the new mixes in stereo & 5.1 a bit bright-sounding in comparison to the old stereo & quad versions. Said brightness isn’t as bothersome to me as on the recent Al Stewart Year Of The Cat and Time Passages 5.1 remixes (also issued through the Esoteric label), but some of the busier passages with crashing cymbals get to be a bit fatiguing at higher volume.
Quality: Blu-ray | Container: BDMV | Video codec: MPEG4 | Audio Codec: DTS-HD MA, LPCM
Progressive Rock, Symphonic Rock | Duration: 01:02:05+00:40:26+00:40:24 | 38.12 GB
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920x1080 23.976fps [V: h264 high L4.1, yuv420p, 1920x1080]
Audio: DTS 96000Hz 6ch 13824kbps [A: English [eng] (dts-hd ma, 96000 Hz, 5.1(side), s24)]
Audio: 0x4448 96000Hz 6ch 13824kbps [A: English [eng] (pcm_bluray, 96000 Hz, 5.1(side), s24, 13824 kb/s)]
Tracklist:
For those old-school fans that continue to maintain vintage quadraphonic decoding equipment, the inclusion of the SQ-encoded stereo mix on the Blu-Ray disc is a fun bonus. Interestingly enough, this is not the first time it's been reissued in a digital format: it appeared first on the 1998 Brimstone CD reissue and then again in the 2011 CD/DVD set. There are also some reports that the HDTracks high-resolution digital download of Once Again is sourced from the SQ-encoded master.
Though this set is a great value and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to any immersive music enthusiast, I was kind of disappointed to find the new mixes in stereo & 5.1 a bit bright-sounding in comparison to the old stereo & quad versions. Said brightness isn’t as bothersome to me as on the recent Al Stewart Year Of The Cat and Time Passages 5.1 remixes (also issued through the Esoteric label), but some of the busier passages with crashing cymbals get to be a bit fatiguing at higher volume.
Quality: Blu-ray | Container: BDMV | Video codec: MPEG4 | Audio Codec: DTS-HD MA, LPCM
Progressive Rock, Symphonic Rock | Duration: 01:02:05+00:40:26+00:40:24 | 38.12 GB
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920x1080 23.976fps [V: h264 high L4.1, yuv420p, 1920x1080]
Audio: DTS 96000Hz 6ch 13824kbps [A: English [eng] (dts-hd ma, 96000 Hz, 5.1(side), s24)]
Audio: 0x4448 96000Hz 6ch 13824kbps [A: English [eng] (pcm_bluray, 96000 Hz, 5.1(side), s24, 13824 kb/s)]
Tracklist:
