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post #16 of 26
10/13/08 at 4:53pm
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Originally Posted by wovenhand View Post
Shellac - Dog And Pony Show, Prayer To God
Einstürzende Neubauten - Sabrina, Selbstportrait Mit Kater
YES! Sabrina is an awesome song. That's another one of those songs where the bass is either weak and distant or full and punchy.
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post #17 of 26
10/13/08 at 6:09pm
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Originally Posted by mckickflip View Post
YES! Sabrina is an awesome song. That's another one of those songs where the bass is either weak and distant or full and punchy.
Have you heard Selbstportrait Mit Kater..? It's from the Perpetuum Mobile album. That loud metallic BAM-BAM! sound that comes in nearly made me **** my pants the first time I heard it.
Einstürzende has excellent sounding albums overall, atleast from Silence Is Sexy and onwards.
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post #18 of 26
11/25/08 at 5:48pm
Tears in Heaven- Eric Clapton lol
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post #19 of 26
11/26/08 at 12:14am
I tend to use Bohemian Rhapsody a lot . . .
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post #20 of 26
11/30/08 at 2:19am
I like Christian McBride's Album Gettin' To It. The title cut, and "In a Hurry", are nice and upbeat, and all the instrumentation is acoustic, so you can really get a taste for how the sound is colored. It's not complete, as there are no vocals.
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post #21 of 26
12/1/08 at 12:33am
Modest Mouse's Float on would be mine, so much going on in that song.
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post #22 of 26
12/1/08 at 1:19am
Two entire albums, actually:



Covers acoustics well and has a terrific soundstage. Almost everything you want to know about a piece of gear can be demonstrated here.

And:



Not just because it's a classic, but because I've heard it several hundred times over the past 25 years. I know DSoTM and it gives you all the information you don't get with a live acoustic recording, like Waltz for Debby.

I use the SACD version of each for evaluation.
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post #23 of 26
12/1/08 at 1:42am
Edwards Scissorhands Soundtrack, Track #7 (whole album really). Sarah Mclachlan, Fumbling Towards Ecstacy (Tracks 2 and 3). Lord of the Rings Soundtrack, Track 1 (was one of the first songs where I really noticed how important the source was to low end (using the AKG K501s in particular), so I've heard that initial low end hit many times.
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post #24 of 26
12/1/08 at 1:52am
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Track #9 - Too Rich For My Blood.
Awesome! Plus Cassandra Wilson's Black Crow from Blue Light Til Dawn.
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post #25 of 26
12/1/08 at 1:56am
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero or The Downward Spiral
Radiohead - Let Down (from OK Computer)
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
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post #26 of 26
10/9/11 at 5:36am

My Benchmarks Tracks

 

Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror
Lil Jon - Get Low
Three 6 Mafia - Late Night Tip
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tearjerker
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall Pt 2
Guns N' Roses - November Rain/Welcome To The Jungle
Goldfinger - 99 Red Ballons
Queen - Bohemian Rapsody
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long

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