MAHLER: Symphonie No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection' - Music Experience in 3-Dimensional Sound Reality [7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio Disc] [Blu-ray Audio] [Audio Only]

This is a BD-R remastered from a stereo recording to be 7.1
Looks like Alexander Jero removed all of his poorly-reviewed recordings and re-listed them as new products to wipe out all the 1-star reviews they got. I was one of the unlucky ones tricked into buying this garbage from Acoustic Reality, and I am disappointed that an entire new group of music lovers may be tricked into buying any of these cheap Acoustic Reality Blu-rays, especially at the rip-off prices being charged.

Look at the review history for any 5-star reviews Acoustic Reality products and you'll see a pattern: a cabal of 10-20 people from blu ray dot com who unilaterally support the producer of these sub-par products, Alexander Jero, despite the fact that the recordings do not deliver. The performances are average, the surround experience lacking, and the overall product quality amateurish. From typos on the jacket to the BD-R disc seemingly burned at someone's computer, this is NOT what should be representing the future of Blu-ray audio.

If you look at...

Great sound - poor performance
Quality of the recorded sound is outstanding.
I personally do not like the interpretation and would not care to hear this recording again.

Sounds good, but looks like a bootleg...
Like others have noted, the disk loads as an AVCHD instead of BD. I'm not an expert in all of the various studio authoring methods out there, but the disk does not visually appear to be a Bluray disk. The data side of the disk has a deep blue color similar to a blank DVD-R, and not the stamped silver that is common with professionally published disk media. Also, the label on the disk feels very similar to the etchable Lightscribe disks where the DVD burner can also create the label. The case booklet looks cheaply printed on thin paper stock. It too looks like it was printed on a low resolution laser printer.

The sound quality is very good however, and is a DTS HD 7.1 at 96kHz/24 bit as advertised.

So all-in-all the data content is what I expected, but at best this is cheaply published media, at worse a bootleg that somehow got into Amazon's merchant stream.

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