An audiophile friend passed to me a recent Maple Shade quarterly mailer. The hyperbole of the sound engineer talk got to me (the little green symbol in the blurb for most of the disks indicate audiophile or near-SADC recording quality via their two channel anolog recordings--i.e., essentially "live" in the studio) so I ordered six CDs.
I'm a jazzhead, and I like reggae. If you've ever been to a live reggae gig, where there's quality amplification and muscianship, the low end is like nothing on earth. Maple Shade tries to capture it with Midnite's "Ras Mek Peace." It's terrific audio quality re voice and most of the music but the low end is muddy on the first few tracks. Nice try, and if there's some benefit of the doubt, my audiophile buddy tells me his Krell reference subwoofer, Musical Fidelity amp and preamp and $8K worth of speaker cable and interconnects will clear up that attempt to capture live reggae base.
May I suggest, however, recordings of merit if you are a jazz fan: The C-Nuts and Gerard D'Angelo Trio are excellent, both quality of the music and audio quality through the frequency range.
I'm a jazzhead, and I like reggae. If you've ever been to a live reggae gig, where there's quality amplification and muscianship, the low end is like nothing on earth. Maple Shade tries to capture it with Midnite's "Ras Mek Peace." It's terrific audio quality re voice and most of the music but the low end is muddy on the first few tracks. Nice try, and if there's some benefit of the doubt, my audiophile buddy tells me his Krell reference subwoofer, Musical Fidelity amp and preamp and $8K worth of speaker cable and interconnects will clear up that attempt to capture live reggae base.
May I suggest, however, recordings of merit if you are a jazz fan: The C-Nuts and Gerard D'Angelo Trio are excellent, both quality of the music and audio quality through the frequency range.