Ahh yes JetJohnson, how could I have forgot to mention
Porcupine Tree?
Saw them live at a festival in Turku, Finland two years back and their sound just blew me away so I tracked down all their surround releases - excellent dynamic stuff.
As you mentioned, Wing's BOTR also is an audio delight, such an enveloping sound field.
Have to admit I was expecting more from "Tommy" but maybe that's just my particular take.
The Robbie Williams Greatest Hits on DTS was rather a hit & miss affair as well with some tracks sounding good but others rather harsh and brittle to my lugholes.
Steely Dan always sounds great as they resisted the temptation to compress their session tapes with industry standard Dolby and went with the Dbx system which in my opinion gave better dynamics without the "breathing effect" that old Dolby had.
I even had a Technics dBX cassette player that gave excellent results.
My wishlist for 2010 surround discs currently includes Earth Wind & Fire, ELP and ELO.
Their original two channel mixdowns had so much going on in them that I know it's going to be a revelation to hear them set free in surround.
My favourite surround disc at the moment, which coincidentally was one of the hardest to track down due to it's limited pressing, is the
Muse "Resistance" album
The standard CD in itself is a masterpiece of performance and audio recording, but the surround version is simply jaw dropping astonishing.
There is a small company here in Norway that specialize in newly recorded surround sound material, Andrew E has mentioned them in another thread, whoose work is so good that I believe they are actually Grammy nominated.
It's still a mystery to me why more people haven't caught on to surround discs, seems at the moment that it's rather a niche group that are enjoying these in secret.
When you consider that everyone is so impressed with surround sound on DVD and BluRay with bullets whizzing past your ears and helicopters flying over your head, you'd think that surround audio would be a natural progression from that, as most people already have the set up to enjoy it.
If you bought the latest blockbuster movie on DVD or BluRay only to find it was 2 channel stereo you'd probably return it, yet people readily accept CD's two channel format as de facto state of the art!
Still, it just means that there are millions of people that have a treat in store . . . .