Post Description
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Foreigner - Foreigner
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Artist...............: Foreigner
Album................: Foreigner
Genre................: Rock Label................: Atlantic Records
Source...............: DVDA
Year.................: 2001
Format...............: ISO
AudioDVD-A English MLP 96/24 5.1 DVD-A English MLP 96/24 2.0 DVD-A English MLP 48/24 5.1 DVD-V English Dolby Digital 5.1 (448Kb/s)
Covers...............: YES
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Tracklisting
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01. Feels Like The First Time
02. Cold As Ice
03. Starrider
04. Headknocker
05. The Damage Is Done
06. Long, Long Way From Home
07. Woman Oh Woman08. At War With The World
09. Fool For You Anyway
10. I Need You
11. Feels Like The First Time (Demo)
12. Woman Oh Woman (Demo)
13. At War With The World (Demo)
14. Take Me To Your Leader (Demo)
Total Size...........: 5.51 GB
NFO generated on.....: 30/06/2011 13:53:25 PM
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Video
The only video on the disc is the two music videos in the extras. Everything else comprises NTSC menus and stills. These are quite clear and sharp, with the text being easy to read.
Audio
The disc contains three sound format choices: the default DVD-Audio MLP 96 kHz/24 bit 5.1 soundtrack, a DVD-Audio MLP 96 kHz/24 bit 2.0 soundtrack and a DVD-Video compatible Dolby Digital 5.1 448 Kb/s soundtrack. As usual, I listened to the 5.1 soundtracks in their entirety and sampled a chunk of the 2.0 soundtrack.
The DVD-Video compatible Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack is basically to be avoided. This is not a good demonstration of the art of surround sound engineering, the problem being that the bass channel is mixed with far too much reverb. With the almost exception of The Damage Is Done and Woman Oh Woman, the overemphasised and reverberating bass can be found on every track to a greater or lesser degree. The bass reverb descends into the depths of atrocious on Starrider where the bass is so over mixed and so over-reverbed that it completely muddies the entire sound on the track. All of which is a great pity as when the bass is kept out of the mix, this can actually be a very nice sounding surround track. This is evidenced by the fact that there is a quite distinctive pointing of the various components of the music to specific areas. All the backing vocals are mixed to the rear surrounds, completely separated from the lead vocals which are in the front channels. Similarly the rhythm guitars are mixed quite separately from the lead guitar, with little "leakage" of the sound across the channels. So when you can actually hear the rest of the music, it is quite easy to listen to. One other problem with the sound - Long, Long Way From Home starts out with a mix that seems to be missing any surround activity. It seems to come back after a little while but it does sound a bit weird. It may well be that this is an intentional style in the mix, of course, since it does not sound like a drop out. It plays over the track listing menu, which is another downside to the presentation - the view is not exactly the best.
If you thought you might find solace in the MLP 5.1 soundtrack, I have some bad news: it is very similar in style to the Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack. Whilst the reverb is generally not quite so pronounced as it is on the previous soundtrack, it is certainly there and quite noticeable. It is, if anything, a little more pronounced on those tracks which on the Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack are relatively free from the problem, but the plus is that Starrider is nowhere near as bad. However, if this were your first experience with Advanced Resolution surround sound, I am fairly sure that you would give up on the format straight away! The similarity in style with the Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack does extend to a generally similar quality of surround work, with the same sort of direction of various elements of the music to specific channels. In that respect the soundtrack is very good, but unfortunately there is no way that this overcomes the bass reverb problems.
So it is left to the DVD-Audio MLP 2.0 soundtrack to provide something decent in the way of sound. Very decent too, with a very nice clear and open sound that does a much better job of the music than the reverb-plagued 5.1 soundtracks. It sounds way better than the CD equivalent (yes, I found it in my collection for comparison) with the obligatory additional air and clarity.
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