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.

Otherwise you will get screen burn no matter which TV you have by leaving it on with just tracks on the screen.

 

[Al ears]

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.

You clearly have a different sound set-up to mine.
Mine is purely stereo and a TV is not required or used.

 

[R2D2]

You clearly have a different sound set-up to mine.
Mine is purely stereo and a TV is not required or used.

That’s because you have an Oppo with Pure Audio mode. And because it’s stereo you are not having to select soundtracks you can use. Often with Blu-ray Audios you have to select the soundtracks using the TV screen.

 

[Steve983]

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?

It was a faff for me because when I turned my tv off it switched the Blu Ray off too! Then I changed the HDMI settings on my Blu Ray player and rectified the problem. As for the sound I have a number of Steven Wilson's albums on Blu Ray and the 24 bit stereo mix sounds amazing - better than cd. Also have quite a few live concert recordings on Blu Ray which I am equally pleased with.

 

[Jasonovich]

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?

Some spill how it works below. The player with SACD hybrid capability automatically defaults to the highest resolution layer, if the firmware is out of date, it may only read from the CD surface.

https://www.muszeroldal.hu/assistance/SACD1.pdf#:~:text=The%20DSD%20layer%20is%20made%20of%20a%20special,laserlight%20that%20is%20reflected%20by%20the%20DSD%20layer.

 

[R2D2]

This is what a Blu-ray Audio looks like on a TV:

You can select the soundtrack Audio you want, but as Al says you can just use stereo and not play with the soundtracks, you don’t the TV. The only advantage for this Blu-ray Audio seems you can play it in 5.1 Master Audio and not just stereo, although the quality seems to be the same for the different soundtracks.

You can’t leave the TV on this picture though because you will get screen burn. But if you listen to how Al is you won’t need to use the TV at all.

 

[R2D2]

At the moment the way mine is setup it’s only letting me use the Blu-ray Audio with screen picture like above, I can’t select TV picture and watch something else and the Blu ray Audio won’t play without a picture. I will have to workout how to set it up properly sometime!

So I have just disconnected my amp e-arc HDMI cable for the amp and TV, I can now listen to the Blu-ray Audio via the amp with no picture but I can’t select the Blu-ray audio soundtrack but is fine in stereo. I can now just switch the TV on no problems, it still plays. So that was the problem with mine. All sorted now. Now it’s sorted with mine you can just turn the TV to select the soundtrack and turn it back off again.

 

[manicm]

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?

You normally would choose it via onscreen menu. My 13 year old CA player has an audio-only button on the remote which actually blanks out the TV.

I bought the Yes Topographic Tales 5.1 Blu-ray set years ago.