pedroeb, you have it right. My mistake if people thought I meant tracks to evaluate sound equipment. I watched the video and don’t agree with the term "Ear Candy". Sounds like Steely Dan Gaucho should be avoided because it is "too" well recorded. From my view point, I am a musician first, second a music lover, and lastly an "Audiophile" who puts equipment together to try to reproduce the artists message. If an engineer or producer is talented enough to reproduce life like music in your home, should that be avoided? Remember George Martin was the fifth Beatle or maybe the first, depending on how you look at it. I saw a video on YouTube and this gentleman stated he swaps out at least two pairs of speakers and two sets of amps every day! I would rather spend my limited time listening to music over playing with endless gear. Anyway I’m not here to debate. Spanish Harlem by Rebeca Pidgeon is my example of one of the best female vocalist, magically captured on a recoded medium, and if you have the right equipment - will take you THERE! Yes Ear Candy for sure.
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Disco Duck by Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots The Bird is the Word - by the Trashmen ( watch the video for the most intimate and unforgettable experience) The Streak - by Ray Stevens Kung Fu Fighting - by Carl Douglas I Lost On Jeopardy - by Weird Al Yankovich Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer - by who and the Hell cares NO doubt that these are only the best songs ever recorded but also with the best sonics hands down - no need for any more debate on this topic. Now go buy them in the unlikely event you don’t already own them (including the MoFi 45RPM UHQR reissues)! Nuff said!!!! |
These are my go to CDs: Rosanne Cash—Rules of Travel Rodney Crowell—The Outsider KD Lang—Hymns of the 49th Parallel Mary Chaplin Carpenter—Come On Come On Steeleye Span—Hark! The Village Wait Clifford Jordan—Live at Ethyl’s Ron Carter—The Golden Striker Jack deJohnette—in Movement Ben Webster/Joe Zawinul—Soulmates Gerry Mulligan meets Ben Webster |
millercarbon9,537 posts06-12-2021 2:52amYou are able to evaluate using only certain tracks? Fascinating! Whatever my listener would like to hear. Whatever floats their boat. Seriously. I learned a long time ago that normal people just don't listen like audiophiles do. Heck, truth be told audiophiles don't even listen the way they think they do. They screw themselves over all the time turning what should be one of the most enjoyable and satisfying experiences a person can have- enjoying music - into drudgery. They do this all kinds of ways, the "demo disc" mentality being but one. Another is the audiophile checklist- extension? check! bass? check! dynamics? check! on and on? check! Did you even hear the music? What? Music? Oh yeah, you must mean "track 3"- check! What I do instead, ask what kind of music they like the most. Music they would like to sit and do nothing but listen to it. A lot of people hardly ever really even listen to music. In any case, I always ask them. Play what they are really into and they will listen, often times rapt. They will hear things in the music they find interesting they never would notice any other way. I had a guy one time notice the difference between a mixdown and live to 2-track. Could you even do that? He did. Simply by being so deeply drawn into it. Anyway that was why I started doing it many years ago, simply discovered most really only listen closely to music when they love the music. Then listening closely they will realize just how great the sound quality is, because then it has meaning. Without meaning, what a waste. That is why I started doing it. Now though there is another equally good reason for not doing the "demo disc". If the goal of the system is to reproduce whatever is on the recording, not to make it sound "good", not to make it sound anything, just to be an absolutely clean and clear window into the recording, well then if you do this properly what is there to demo? I can't honestly demo my system because in order to do that I would have to have a system that is doing something. But the whole point of my system, everything I have been working on my whole life, is to have a system that does not do anything. So how can I demo my system? I can demo recordings, sure. Cable elevators, interconnects, etc, no problemo. But the system? The question itself to me does not even make sense. |
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