So at the local Toronto meet last weekend we were lucky enough to have an Ultrasone representative present. And he left us this awesome "Ultrasone" CD that literally made us all scream in disbelief. We listened to the CD first with Ultrasone's 2200 cans (~250 USD) from a Hornet "M". Just incredible. The first track had such incredible imaging that we thought that the music was coming from another room. However after trying other headphones, it was apparent that the recordings themselves had a lot to do with the incredible sound. Regardless, it's an awesome CD.
I call it a "benchmark" CD because it has 20 tracks, including a wide variety from ambient, Jazz, classical, tuning forks, wildlife, shorelines and whatnot. This is probably the most amazing sounding compilation I've ever tried. It's just magnificent, and I'm running it ampless out of my ipod to SR-60s/D-Jays. On higher end cans, you've never heard anything like it. With really nice imaging cans like K1000s I'm sure not much can come close to how well mastered the CD is.
We kind of got permission to share the CD, so I grabbed it, converted it to (lowest level compression) FLAC. .wav is too big to share, and lossy doesn't do it for me. I chose low level compression because I hate the artifacts that sometimes show up on my rockbox'ed ipod mini at highest compression, and the difference between sizes is like <1 mb / 15mb track. Anyways, here's the link:
Note: this is not a copyrighted CD. There are no indications on the sleeve or CD itself of such, but please use this for private usage. As I've said before, if there's alot of interest I'll do .mp3 (lame), .ogg or whatever.
Enjoy!
UPDATE: January 28th 2007
I hadn't realised how much this thread has caught on, and alas I haven't updated it. However, now I'm going to provide the latest links to download the file as many have gone down since:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/c732b8/
http://www.pointstone.com/steven/Audio/Ultrasone CD.rar
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EP732YPC
Thanks to Dept_of_Alchemy for compiling those for us. And again, album art and track listing in on page 3.
I call it a "benchmark" CD because it has 20 tracks, including a wide variety from ambient, Jazz, classical, tuning forks, wildlife, shorelines and whatnot. This is probably the most amazing sounding compilation I've ever tried. It's just magnificent, and I'm running it ampless out of my ipod to SR-60s/D-Jays. On higher end cans, you've never heard anything like it. With really nice imaging cans like K1000s I'm sure not much can come close to how well mastered the CD is.
We kind of got permission to share the CD, so I grabbed it, converted it to (lowest level compression) FLAC. .wav is too big to share, and lossy doesn't do it for me. I chose low level compression because I hate the artifacts that sometimes show up on my rockbox'ed ipod mini at highest compression, and the difference between sizes is like <1 mb / 15mb track. Anyways, here's the link:
Note: this is not a copyrighted CD. There are no indications on the sleeve or CD itself of such, but please use this for private usage. As I've said before, if there's alot of interest I'll do .mp3 (lame), .ogg or whatever.
Enjoy!
UPDATE: January 28th 2007
I hadn't realised how much this thread has caught on, and alas I haven't updated it. However, now I'm going to provide the latest links to download the file as many have gone down since:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/c732b8/
http://www.pointstone.com/steven/Audio/Ultrasone CD.rar
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EP732YPC
Thanks to Dept_of_Alchemy for compiling those for us. And again, album art and track listing in on page 3.
