This is a very demanding piece with some keyboard work that drives me up the wall on a bad system. It is from her Mixed Grill CD. Great CD if you like jazz singing at all. But it can be hard to find.
Another jazz CD is Patricia Barber's Companion. Lots of heavy bass. It is a live recording. For many years I have used Fleetwood Mac's Rhiannon from their first breakthrough album. The self-titled one. Not because it is a good recording, but because the bass on it is very bad. I use it to judge how well a system can handle badly recorded music. I also use it to weed out speakers with artifically boosed upper bass, like Bose. Unfortunately the CD is improved over the LP, which was really bad. But it still works. The reason I like to use it is because it once taught me a lesson about high end speakers. Some of them are so intolerant of poor recordings that you find yourself unable to listen some of your favorite music. Not the kind of speakers I want. I don't have a good treble test CD at the moment. Jazz albums with clean recordings of cymbals would be good. I am thinking that the Renee Olstead CD would be a good test of higher female voices. She has a very light, pure voice. Piano is one of the best for testing. If it can handle a dynamic piano recording it can handle almost anything. -- regalma1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ regalma1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6658 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33246 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
