In the spirit of keeping Grant's thread going...
Latest Bluray pickup was one of my favourite 80's movies, Conan The Barbarian, now in a full 4K rescan and remaster.
Love this movie for so many reasons, it takes the genre and treats it seriously, like a historical piece for a time that never was.
One of the greatest movie scores ever written, not a lot of dialogue being one of Arnies earlier movies, so the music does a lot of heavy lifting.
Theres a Score only audio track, which with the (now dazzling) visuals on is the best way to listen to the complete soundtrack.
Released only for the American market by Arrow Video, the extra disc cant be read by my Oppo, but have the UK blueray with 50% of them anyway, but theres some new cool stuff for this release, so will eventually get a PC blueray drive and rip to to the computer, and reburn it to disk.
One of the best 4K transfers I've seen, film grain and the filmic "look" hasn't been tampered with, but detail and the new HDR give the movie a new lease of life.
Its amazing.
Pretty hard to get, so paid a fair whack for it from America, but its a movie I keep going back to.
Last edited by Gazjam; 11-04-2024 at 05:55.
AC POWER
Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system
AMPS
Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded)
SPEAKERS
Wharfedale Evo 4.4
DAC
PS Audio Directstream (Modded)
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Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge
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Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu)
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OPPO 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac) - Roon Endpoint, HDMI input used for all things Streaming/ PS5 /AppleTV ... also good for movies apparently?
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Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
Ipad Roon Remote.
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