Pat Farrell;179027 Wrote: > agentsmith wrote: > > > Also, a "clean" track like Dire Straits "Love Over Gold" would be > very > > nice > > I'm not a great fan of using Dire Straits for critical comparison. The > > tunes are good, and the recording is excellent, but their music has a > lot of distortion in the guitars and synths in the rhythm, which is > very > hard to judge. > > I prefer vocals, typically jazz trios, such as Patricia Barber's Modern > > Cool. Or acoustic guitar, perhaps with vocals. Either of these are more > > likely to have no electronic "enhancement" on the recorded tracks. > > Solo piano playing classical works is also very revealing, but I'm not > > as much of a fan of that type of music. > > -- > Pat > http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html
The older Dire Straits albums sound surprisingly good on a very good system Large, deep sound stage (real or not) and good dynamics (some kick and crack in those drums). I agree that there must be many much better recordings to use. I just suggested something that a lot of people are likely to have and which sounds way better than most other popular stuff. -- P Floding No, I didn't ABX it. And I won't even if you ask me. (Especially not if you ask me.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32576 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
