3/5 Thisis NOT a DVD Audio disc, it is dts, sadly.
  by BJJ Beginner (Denver CO)
So you do not need a DVD Audio player, only your run of the mill DVD player, which has a dts decoder (all good ones do). Or if your receiver decodes dts, WAY BETTER, let it do the work. Pap, only good song is Blue Blue Sky, the others are rip offs of Careless Whisper, Rock and Roll Stew, etc.


5/5 On Air Still Uplifting
  by K. Carlson
This Alan Parsons CD, along with "The Time Machine", are hard to get in the United States, so I was happy to be able to
get this. This is one of the CDs post Eric Woolfson's departure from Alan Parsons Project. His music is taking an evolution
of style, but you still can tell it's Alan's baby. His collaborations with new lead vocalist P.J.Olsson are great to listen to.
All of the current band members can sing any of the classic Parsons pieces, as well as the new.
Check out a later release, "A Valid Path", and you'll see what I mean.
Had opportunity to see Alan Parsons in concert and meet him as well as his bandmates, afterward. They were gracious and
appreciative to talk to. After 30 years of creating music, he has still got it. Can't wait to hear what's next.

5/5 As close to an Ian Bairnson solo album as there has yet to be.
  by Parrish A. Highley (Highland, CA, USA)
While I liked the stereo version of On Air, I absolutely LOVE it in surround! There are a lot of really good surround presentations out there like Roxy Music's Avalon and the Gabriel era Genesis 1970-1975 box set, but, hands down, this is the single best surround product you can buy! With the exception of an excerpt from President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's famous 25 May 1961 exhortation to send a man to the moon that occupies the center channel, is a quadraphonic presentation. Four identical speakers at ear level will yeild an uncanny level of immersion within the surround field.

But what really takes this to an entirely new level is that the quadraphonic imaging enhances the very mood of the music itself. While gentle and atmospheric songs like "Too Close To The Sun" and "Blown By The Wind" sound as if the movement of winds envelop the listener, the imaging of "Apollo" is so charged and staggering that I am convinced this is THE test of a surround system. Even the completely restrained imaging, by comparison, of "Brother Up In Heaven" succeeds in spades as it leaves the emotional purity of Ian Bairnson's lost cousin, Erik Mounsey, intact.

While On Air is as subtle and nuanced musically as Try Anything Once was dynamic, it really is every bit as good if given a fair chance. The guitar work on "Blown By The Wind" and "Cloudbreak" is arguably the finest that virtuoso Ian Bairnson has ever recorded. This album struggled to garner the audience it so richly deserved upon release, but the devotion it has subsequently earned from that audience is both heartfelt and completely justified!

(As an aside, I whole-heartedly recommend investigating the work of PILOT as they were the band that became the rhythm section of The Project. There are several different compilations available here, but, personally, I am partial to Two's a Crowd and, especially, Blue Yonder.)

5/5 On Air
  by W. Haddad (New Mexico, USA)
On Air is a wonderful CD. It is very mellow and rich. If you are an Alan Parson's fan you will love this one.

1/5 Bummer...
  by R. Graham (Rhode Island)
Heh, it's April 1, but this is no fools' joke. I ordered this over a year ago, received it, and was looking forward to finishing my Alan Parsons collection. This was the last one, and I needed it. When it arrived on-time, I was elated! But it was defective. It wouldn't play on any DVD player, and wouldn't work in my computer. Prompt replacement. Same thing. I gave up, and have been waiting for a re-release. Service was all good, experience was fine, but the discs were simply manufactured wrong. Just wanted to warn the would-be buyers to watch out.