Blu Ray Audio discs

[manicm]

An album is being released or re-released literally every other day. I want to bite but...

Is it not a faff having to blank out the TV just to hear the music?

 

[abacus]

Re-mastered doe not mean better than the original, just different, and unfortunately a lot are very poor, with original vinyl masters being far superior then the ones that have been re-mastered, so buyer beware.
A Blu-Ray can contain a lot more data than a CD so it can have extra features and better quality, so the slight faff of blanking the TV becomes nothing.

Bill

 

[Al ears]

Get Blu-ray Audio discs??

 

[Jasonovich]

I haven't listened to much Blu-ray audio, I can't say so far, it has set my world on fire.
I suspect I had been listening to poor quality pressing.
The custodian of the technology Sony, why don't they just embed SACD codec software on all Blu-ray disks?
I see it as a missed opportunity.

 

[manicm]

Get Blu-ray Audio discs??

That's what I was talking about.

 

[manicm]

Re-mastered doe not mean better than the original, just different, and unfortunately a lot are very poor, with original vinyl masters being far superior then the ones that have been re-mastered, so buyer beware.
A Blu-Ray can contain a lot more data than a CD so it can have extra features and better quality, so the slight faff of blanking the TV becomes nothing.

Bill

It's often high-res audio 24/192 they contain and/or Atmos mixes.

 

[Al ears]

I just wondered if OP meant Bluray as opposed to Bluray Audio as none of discs have any video content.

 

[manicm]

I just wondered if OP meant Bluray as opposed to Bluray Audio as none of discs have any video content.

I just told you I meant Blu-ray Audio discs, and I changed the thread title to indicate so.

But even with Blu-ray Audio discs, I'm assuming there'd be some visual element while playing the disc? Or am I wrong? Is it just audio and no visual elements at all?

 

[Symples]

Hmmmm
How are you going to select titles without being able to see them.

My Sony does not have a display.
I purchased a DTS audio DVD and had to use my TV to see and select tracks.

So... I do not think that it's a waste having your TV on.

Mind you, if you're going to play the disc from start to finish.

 

[manicm]

I'm looking for a reply with anyone actually using these discs.

 

[manicm]

Hmmmm
How are you going to select titles without being able to see them.

My Sony does not have a display.
I purchased a DTS audio DVD and had to use my TV to see and select tracks.

So... I do not think that it's a waste having your TV on.

Mind you, if you're going to play the disc from start to finish.

I have a Blu-ray player with a display. I will never buy any disc player without a display. So that will rule Sonys out, apart from a few other reasons.

 

[Al ears]

I just told you I meant Blu-ray Audio discs, and I changed the thread title to indicate so.

But even with Blu-ray Audio discs, I'm assuming there'd be some visual element while playing the disc? Or am I wrong? Is it just audio and no visual elements at all?

Missed your post, apologies.

 

[Al ears]

I'm looking for a reply with anyone actually using these discs.

I use mine in my Oppo....

 

[nopiano]

I just told you I meant Blu-ray Audio discs, and I changed the thread title to indicate so.

But even with Blu-ray Audio discs, I'm assuming there'd be some visual element while playing the disc? Or am I wrong? Is it just audio and no visual elements at all?

Following with interest. I’d assumed Audio meant audio only, and the extra capacity is used for multi-channel mixes. As these are of no interest to me, I’ve not bought any, but I am intrigued. Like Al, I have an Oppo that would probably play them.

 

[Al ears]

Following with interest. I’d assumed Audio meant audio only, and the extra capacity is used for multi-channel mixes. As these are of no interest to me, I’ve not bought any, but I am intrigued. Like Al, I have an Oppo that would probably play them.

I have some excellent discs and some not so.
Not interested in multi channel even if it were available simply for sound quality.
i suppose it's a bit like having a SACD disc and only listening to the CD layer.

 

[nopiano]

I have some excellent discs and some not so.
Not interested in multi channel even if it were available simply for sound quality.
i suppose it's a bit like having a SACD disc and only listening to the CD layer.

That’s the part I don’t quite get. How to access the higher resolution layer. I’m sure I read that some of these were created to hold several CDs worth on one disc, like a super long-player. Have you seen those, or was imagining it?

 

[Al ears]

That’s the part I don’t quite get. How to access the higher resolution layer. I’m sure I read that some of these were created to hold several CDs worth on one disc, like a super long-player. Have you seen those, or was imagining it?

Not seen one, at least not that I own.
However......
"Blu-ray Audio can provide exceptional sound quality, especially when it includes high-resolution audio formats like PCM, DTS-HD Master Audio, or Dolby TrueHD. These formats can offer similar or even better sound quality than SACD, depending on the mastering and production quality."

 

[R2D2]

An album is being released or re-released literally every other day. I want to bite but...

Is it not a faff having to blank out the TV just to hear the music?

Yes, it is. I used to have a Cambridge Audio 4K Blu-ray player that I just put into Pure Audio mode, but if you don’t have a Blu-ray player that does that then it becomes a faff. You will have your TV on a channel like ITV and you will be listening to your Blu-ray Audio. Every time you want to change a song you will have to go back to that HDMI input for the Blu-ray player to do that. And that’s if your setup allows that.