Vangelis - To the Unknown Man
What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report
I enjoy vinyl and digital (lately, with recent changes, vinyl actually sounds better than digital to me), BUT given what seems an overall preference for analog/vinyl on A'gon, I'm curious what the non-vinyl "1/2" is listening to. I tried to see if this was a previously posted question. Did not seem so.
This evening for me, it's Genesis (definitive edition remaster) "A Trick of the Tail".
This evening for me, it's Genesis (definitive edition remaster) "A Trick of the Tail".
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Nice Penfolds red and a couple of GT’s later Rickie Lee Jones Pop Pop triple album uncompressed. Now your talking high end recordings. https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=Rickie+Lee+Jones&album=Pop+Pop Click on the name of the album for the cd cat no to buy used, on ebay for peanuts Cheers George |
Greg Brown awesome folk artist with a modern twist. Fabulous rich voice and excellent recordings http://www.gregbrown.org/ |
Thanks @jafant I'm so ignorant about most of the standard jazz catalog and I'm a slow "reader". Takes me a long time to "get" some of it...well, what doesn't bore me and that, I'm finding, often means quintets. So, that's how we arrived at these three. Though a good quartet is okay too! Probably be spending more time with one or more of them again tonight. |
Elton John "Madman Across the Water" not a big fan, but this is something else, brilliant, stunning there are no adjectives that can describe just how good this album was. Naturally the best release, was the most uncompressed one, that was the first 1985 as usual. https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/186376 Cheers George |
"All The Nasties" brilliant!!!!!!! Called being uncompressed back then, when there were no iphones/tablets/earbuds/walkmans etc etc to blow up and the earphones when the big crescendos/transients came along. Now they have to compress otherwise they would blow those teeny speakers/earbuds, if turned up during the quiter intros/passages. So they have to compress it these days, to stop all that destruction, and as a bonus for them less space is used when they stream, so less space less streaming costs to them Like this unfortunate compressed junk. Good also in cars in heavy city traffic, jackhammers etc. https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/103194 https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/182565 Here’s something good to look at EJ early uncompressed https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list/year/1?artist=elton+john Compared it to most of the later stuff https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list/year/3?artist=elton+john (something happened though between 2017 to 2019) they went back to uncompressed????? Which is weird, someone said something to someone?? Cheers George |
ghosthouse OP Look at the compression difference with your fav "All The Nasties" track8 2004 SACD version https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/52257 Or 1996 track8 again downloaded https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/110436 Then the track8 1985 nearly 20 years earlier uncompressed version https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/186376 Cheers George |
Very good tweak, original first issue, uncompressed re-issues, untouched with no (streaming/downloading) compression. Gunna get me a set of these. (Seems to be 5 discs though) https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=Rickie+Lee+Jones&album=Original+Album+Series Just bought me one from the UK. Cheers George |
Continuing Wayne Shorter investigations. Tonight it is Juju...Wayne and McCoy + bass and drums. Rudy Van Gelder remaster version that, despite much negative commentary about the series, does not sound all that bad (a little thin but not ear bleed bright). Did fiddle a little with Lokius tone settings mainly to try and bring up the piano in the mix. At times sounding like it was placed at the back of a big room with the mic positioned too far away from it. |