Which Record makes your system shine?
Hey All,
Been a while since I posted anything and I hope I am posting in the correct category.
So, just curious, which Vinyl Record, do you feel makes your system shine and display it's full potential?
OR, put another way, which record or records would you put on if you wanted to show off your system to someone who has not heard or seen it before?
Of course we know, not all records sound the same but for me I feel (at least on my system), it's the record: "Temptation" by Chantal Chamberland - Evosound Records
Carpenters: The Singles (forgot to check the record label).
On the other hand, I have James Taylor Greatest Hits on Vinyl and that record just sounds a bit veiled to me.
It's funny how one record can sound great and another, not that it sounds bad but just doesn't seem to have that crispness or openness to it.
System at the moment if you're wondering:
- Vincent SV-500
- Mofi Studio Desk w/Hana SL MC
- Martin Logan Motion 40 Speakers
- Sim Audio Moon 110lp V2 Phono
- Cardas Cabling
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For me, its "The Wonderful Sounds of Quality Records Pressings." Three LPs covering Classical, jazz, female vocals, R&B and Blues. Its supposed to show off just how good QRP is at its craft and it succeeds. Stunning sound quality that gets everything my system has to offer. If a visitor wants to hear what my system can do this is what they get. Next in line would be John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman.
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@billpete Sheffield's mainstay was direct-to-disc recordings, and their recordings are classics even to this day (although the music hasn't aged well). Crystal Clear was an also ran in those sweepstakes. Telarc never made D2D records - they were the first to market digital recordings made on the Soundstream digital recorder. But it was not necessarily their recording technology that made them a standout, although it was groundbreaking at the time, it was their use of minimal miking, often using just 3 microphones to record an entire orchestra. The result was a recording of massive depth, air and imaging, far surpassing the compressed and over-miked recordings of Deutsche Grammophon and others.
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