Dream Theater - Parasomnia: released! - Progressive Rock Music Forum

It feels a mix of their last two album with Portnoy on drums, I liked it so far - loved the previous albums too.

It still not as good as Distance Over time, but their best since Octavarium I guess (excluding DoT ofc)

^How do you compress on demand?

Personally I think the album sounds great,it's an album where the various players are mixed as a whole, the music sounds all together and the vocals are to the fore. It all sounds tight ❤️

^At AP users can submit an overall rating and also individual ratings for production, musicianship, songwriting, composition, lyrics and cover art. Cool

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Mellotron Storm wrote:

Someone needs to tell these reviewers giving DT's latest 5 stars that the production is terrible, they seem to be missing that. Maybe bad ears, or bad stereo, or maybe a bad format they're listening to it on. Because it's objective right?

It's a good point though....But I respect that reviewers on PA are not intune (see what I did there Wink

) to a production component to their review. PA is not a forum that discerns quality of sound for the most part, I respect that it is almost all about the music and content, meaning the lyrical content more about the art of music.

There are sites that take the whole context of an album from this to also put value on the production qualities or lack of, in the whole rating. Below is an example, ignore the recording, unless you like Frank!! But these type of reviews include everything that many music lovers and lovers of hi end sound prefer. There is a whole write up as well link included if you desire to read it.

Frank Sinatra

Someone needs to tell these reviewers giving DT's latest 5 stars that the production is terrible, they seem to be missing that. Maybe bad ears, or bad stereo, or maybe a bad format they're listening to it on. Because it's objective right?

"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"

"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN

Grumpyprogfan wrote:

You don't need to be a master chef to know if the protein is raw, or if a dish is too salty.

It's a good analogy. But in this very specific case, determining if "a dish is salty/raw or not" requires non-standard research and/or knowledge. And that knowledge is absolutely optional, if you were to write a typical review, the kind that one would find in music websites and magazines.

And that is why typically reviewers omit the production aspect. If you choose to go in that much technical detail, you can't avoid dissecting the reviewed subject from the audio engineer's perspectiev and/or using potentially alienating technical vocabulary. Besides, the readers wouldn't know what the heck they're reading about anyways.

Edited by Hrychu - February 14 2025 at 06:32

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— Ernest Vong

^ I think that Atmos mixes do not work on normal "buds" - they certainly do not work on my highish-end Sony headphones.

Edited by MikeEnRegalia - February 14 2025 at 05:24

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I don't have the technical equipment to listen to surround mixes anymore ... it's on my todo list. I mainly listen via (good) headphones nowadays.

But has anyone heard the Atmos mix of Parasomnia - is it more dynamic, can you hear all of the instruments more clearly?

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Production and Sound quality are not the same thing anyway. One is 'art' one is 'technical'. Music is always king. I was always incredulous about the whole Vapor Trails debate that went on for what seemed like an age. Still prefer the original mix. Am I also the only one that has not heard a single Steven Wilson remix that surpasses the original?. I find that equally perplexing!

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