moonchildhippy
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Posted: May 15 2006, 17:59 |
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As I did say earlier in this thread I ended up buying a new amplifier at the weekend, as my old amp keeps cutting out especially switching between functions . So I pushed the boat out wnt for the £150 Cambridge Audio "Azur340A" ,a great amp IMHO. The first CD I played was Ommadawn, it really had MORE of that WOW factor, even using bog standard interconnection leads that often come free with many piecesof hi-fi,haveto upgrade my leads later on.
For the first time in months I was able to play a DVD without the sound cutting out .
Quote | Blue Dolphin Posted on May 14 2006, 22:15 However, this is not the case with the Montreux DVD. It doesn't look remasterd at all! I looks like to me they just threw the tape right on DVD. I can see stripes, blurs and drop outs. The sound isn't much either. I really am suprised about the surround sound feature because it doesn't really sound differently compared to the stereo. I don't see how you can make surround out of audio footage of 25 years old either!
The show is rather nice, thought it's a shame Mike makes so many mistakes. I have similar recordings and video footage of concerts from the same period which sounds much better. But it's nice for fans to have the songs from QE2 on DVD live.
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I didn't really notice many stripes, blurs and dropouts, but may be my DVD player only cost £40,so that it doesn't detect blips in picture quality. I didn't really notice Mike make any mistakes. I thought the band worked well together,and looked happy and in good spirits.
Quote | HuanCry Posted on May 14 2006, 18:22 My order should arrive tomorrow hopefully ... my expectations are so high now tonight's going to be like Xmas eve when I was a lad and couldn't get to sleep for hours !!!
This dvd could take 25yrs off my life ! since I saw Mike in concert ( for the 2nd time ) at the Rainbow Theatre in London on the same tour ...end of July ...Montreux's two shows were in early July I believe ... I remember it being one of best if not The Best MO concert I've been to ... I've seen him live 9 or 10 times in all !! |
Yes I was excited at the prospect of this DVD turning up, had to buy myself the new amp to get real pleasure from listening to it, with my old amp the sound cutting out was frustrating to say the least. On Saturday I had gone up to Birmingham for a "Tolkien Weekend" , Ijustwent for theday Saturday. I ended up rushing back to the hi -fi store before it shut,then a train back from New Street to Euston (thanks for the free ride Mr B hehehee!!!)then across toKings Cross andbackto Bedfordshire Saturday night. BTW if there's any Tolkien enthusiast Mike fans want to meet up for next years event, I'd happily meet up with you,makes it more fun. HuanCry, You've seen Mike 9or10 times,,you lucky thing!!!.I haven't seen Mikeplay live Unfortunately circumstances haven'tmade it easy for me to get to live concerts for a few years now,hope things WILL soon change.
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