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Post by tim1750 on Aug 30, 2017 7:31:51 GMT
steven wilson/porcupine tree albums-amazing involving music on vynal,sacd.dvda and now bluray.SW one of the best musicians/engineers around at the moment Thanks for those. Careful with Porcupine, not all of Wilson's albums have good sound quality. For instance, Up the Downstair has some of my all-time favourite songs of theirs, but the sound quality is dire. He remastered the drums, but it's lipstick on a pig. What a great line ( but it's lipstick on a pig )nice one Martin |
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Post by MartinT on Sept 10, 2017 16:51:10 GMT
Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club
I am even more impressed with this as a test album after hearing it sound so different on a variety of different systems recently.
Try track 9 All I Wanna Do. The first thing to strike you is how vivid the hand claps sound at the beginning. Then her voice: it's set back in the mix but isn't buried, it should still be completely intelligible. Then the drums: they're really dynamic and have impact. Through all of this, there is a superb sense of a live and vivid performance going on.
Each song has a different sound (compare the above with track 7 No One Said it Would be Easy), but the overall feeling is one of exciting songs played with zest. If this album sounds dull, that's not at all what I hear.
By the way, it was engineered by Bernie Grundman. 'nuff said.
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Post by canetoad on Sept 11, 2017 7:14:55 GMT
Cd or vinyl Martin?
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Post by MartinT on Sept 11, 2017 7:46:26 GMT
CD.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 26, 2018 9:57:12 GMT
Here's a fun system test that everyone should try. John Keating's Space Experience came out in the 1970s and was, together with Wendy Carlos, one of the first complete albums created using the Moog and VCS3 synthesisers.
It's creative, if a little crazy, and typical music of the period. More importantly, it's still fantastic to listen to and your tweeters will definitely have a 'WTF' moment as they are driven at levels they've never before known*!
Try this track...
*The LP was known to cause the CD4 circuits of quadraphonic decoders to light up in error, such is the ultrasonic content. I have an original pressing.
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 26, 2018 18:58:52 GMT
Tweeter tastic !
All that channel changing
Makes me think of TV signatures.
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Post by MartinT on Aug 22, 2019 8:01:27 GMT
Listening to London Grammar last night, I realised that Strong is an exceptional recording for listening into a soundstage. There is a lot going on underneath Hannah's powerful voice and that nice bass line.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2019 9:30:51 GMT
Listening to London Grammar last night, I realised that Strong is an exceptional recording for listening into a soundstage. There is a lot going on underneath Hannah's powerful voice and that nice bass line. 100% agree. |
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Post by MartinT on Mar 20, 2022 17:40:31 GMT
I have another one to add which I have used a lot for assessing my system of late. They come as a pair, the studio and the live version, both invaluable for assessing noise floor, soundstage, note decay and dynamics. Janis Ian - Breaking Silence open.qobuz.com/track/135191157 Janis Ian - Breaking Silence (Live) open.qobuz.com/track/135249688 |
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Post by daytona600 on Mar 20, 2022 17:47:46 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Mar 20, 2022 19:32:29 GMT
Are you not able to explain WHY you posted this track and how it would help with system assessment? |
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Post by daytona600 on Mar 21, 2022 19:12:31 GMT
Alexandre Desplat
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Post by daytona600 on Mar 21, 2022 19:14:24 GMT
Are you not able to explain WHY you posted this track and how it would help with system assessment? Based on the 1st press LP Dynamics , Scale & Soundstage |
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 22, 2022 10:51:05 GMT
Great track, great album as is most of Stevie's output
Well made, even more revealed after my latest mods not a system stretcher
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 22, 2022 18:27:31 GMT
- Dream Theater 'Pull me under' track from album Images and Words. Sheer visceral impact of a rock band at 11. Ability of system to portray the excitement and sheer fun of the music. Have you heard the superb new Dream Theater album Jerry?  This is a suitably heavyweight system work out. There's a lot going on but there's still lots of air and space in the recording. Visceral is the word. The opening minutes remind me of Rush's instrumental 'XYZ' which can only be a good thing ... This track from the recent Styx album offers a similar experience - a really dense and layered mix but so well recorded it sounds 'monster' on a good system. Drums and tight bass really punch through. |
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Post by MartinT on Mar 22, 2022 19:51:00 GMT
Based on the 1st press LP Dynamics , Scale & Soundstage I found it in 24/96 on Qobuz. It's pretty well made, tidy performance, some interesting effects. I saw Steve Miller back in 1975 at Knebworth. |
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 13, 2022 15:34:33 GMT
I think this version of Why Can't We Live Together is the best sounding track I have heard on Spotify thus far ... The sense of space and palpability is just amazing.
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Post by Slinger on Jul 13, 2022 16:11:03 GMT
I think this version of Why Can't We Live Together is the best sounding track I have heard on Spotify thus far ... The sense of space and palpability is just amazing. James Newell Osterberg Jr on vocals. |
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Post by ant on Jul 13, 2022 17:58:39 GMT
I always use level 42 persuit of accidents as a first stop, if the thing you are listening to cant separate all the interwoven bits out into coherence and let you pick and follow any bit you want then it fails the test
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Post by MartinT on Sept 22, 2022 8:58:54 GMT
Jennifer Warnes - Way Down DeepThis track was made for hi-resolution evaluation, with its subtle percussion and ultra-clear vocals. There's a good soundstage back there that you can hear into. In 24/48 on Qobuz. open.qobuz.com/track/115032748
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