A very all-round headphone for me. Just the right one to take on the go or on holiday. Also as a DJ, nice noice isolation. Very durable so you don't have to wonder if it will break if you throw...
This quick review is done after a few hours of listening. I bought them from B&H for the decent sum of 150$. If you've done your research you'll find out that Ultrasone HPs are known for their...
I auditioned the SRH-1840 straight out of the box, and was unsatisfied with the sound, so I decided to give them a period of break-in. Recent scientific studies have shown definite differences...
I didn't think of TEAC when I began searching for a dedicated CD player. My initial short list included Denon, Cambridge, Marantz, Onkyo. The Teac intrigued me, so I went for it. It is very...
Every single song in the Alive! album by Kiss is the definitive version of it. That double live album is basically the reason every artist includes a live album in their catalog IMHO.
Also who can forget the live album in its entirety by Grand Funk Railroad....that is some serious rock n roll.
I've always been a "studio album" listener. And moreover, I appreciate the craft that goes into the studio album.
And I also feel that this craft most often produces the "definitive version" of a given song.
Sometimes, though, a particular song might reach a new level of power and resonance in live performance. This might be the result of experimenting with a new musical arrangement (Clapton's unplugged Laya, for example), or a moment of cathartic performance, or even both.
I'd say a more apt description of the studio version is...it's the progenitive version rather than the definitive version.
For instance the album version of Woke Up Dreaming by Joe Bonamassa versus the Royal Albert Hall Performance of the song. Which blows the album version away. Then there is the live version of Woke Up Dreaming on Live From Nowhere in Particular, so it's entirely possible that it's hard to quantify the definitive live versions of a particular song. I bought this CD though after seeing Bettye Lavette perform it on one of those Kennedy Center Awards. The defifinitive version still belongs to the progenitors but Bettye Lavette's version:
And here is a live cover of a Neil song that is more epic than definitive.
Nothing like a great song to turn into some living breathing entity when performed live by great musicians.
For myself Frampton Comes Alive was almost a revelatory live album. Imo its production values, especially in terms of sound quality raised the bar from what it had been at the time.
