#qsound

[digitalfossils]

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Tetris: The Grand Master

this is groovy but with a dancefloor feel to it. i love it.

i specifically want to highlight “Happy Happy - Ending” but the entire soundtrack is well worth a listen.

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USA 1999

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Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire

this soundtrack is really happy and whimsical for what i imagine a vampire savior game to be. 

in fact, this soundtrack has some ridiculously smooth tunes. 

check out...“CONCRETE CAVE“ maybe? “VICTOR Ending Theme 1“ is pretty great too...

i also want to point out “FEAST OF THE DAMNED” for being delightfully jazzy. the kind of tune i’d expect to hear from a vampire game. 

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Vampire Savior 2: The Lord of Vampire

quote: “I was originally going to share both Vampire Hunter 2 and Savior 2 as one set since both are technically the same game barring cast and soundtrack differences,”

well that’s confusing. and indeed these are mostly short jingles and a small number of tracks compared to the 81 track pack of the first game. 

“REVENGER'S LOOST” is the longest exclusive track here, and the most interesting. nice atmospheric beats. 

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X-Men: Children of the Atom

a pretty decent soundtrack, though I don’t have much more to comment on. lots of oldschool sampled guitar + brass

I’d recommend the track “Samurai Shrine -SILVER SAMRAI-”

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[audio-luddite]

Good Speakers rock.

Or Jazz or any music.

Last night my wife was away for a few hours so I turned on the system. And I turned it up.

I started with Steely Dan's Aja as I had only heard it through my new headphones three times. WOW. Some headphone aficionados may say my modest little Grados are just not up to the task. I say Bullshit. The experience is entirely different, and better letting the music out in the room.

First is of course the wall disappears and there is the music. It is a studio mix so space and such is just illusionary and not in any sense real. But the textures were richer and deeper. The percussion takes on a whole new shape. Oh and this is an excellent "show off the system" disk. I heard all the sounds in the headphones, but this is so much better.

As an additional dig to the "I hate transistors tribe". The Black Amp just pushed Watts and got out of the way. Clean Solid and just FN good.

The Schiit Vali2 is a hybrid beast and well thought of. But the 50 lb black beast is just better at making sound. I like tubes where they work best.

Next I tried something weird. The thing about studio space is an ongoing issue. Over the years people have invented and fiddled away. Some threw science at it. One was a system called Q-sound. It came out 30 years ago got some love then I think it disappeared. There is a website, but last updated 10 years ago.

Several artists used this in their mixes one being Sting on his "Soul Cages" album. I played that through Apple Music and the Yamaha digital decoder in the CD player. That was interesting. Basically it uses psycho acoustic tricks to manipulate where you hear sound coming from. And strangely it works. I heard a fiddle 6 feet past the speaker on the left side and even something from the far right almost behind me. For creating the illusion of real space similar to surround sound it is pretty good.

I suppose the fact that true multi-track surround became a thing about the same time was no help. The product may survive in some video game platforms, but nobody seems to use if for two channel music. It is fun. I may try it again with the headphones to see if it is similar to real binaural.