[pearljam50000]

They sound much better after about 10 hours... so it only gets better 

 

[BobFiggins]

Any music recommendations for excellent mastered recordings to suit the HD 800? James Blake, Massive Attack, and Sigur Ros sound great. Don't have too many others that really shine with these. Would like to expand my collection of music!

 

[pearljam50000]

Infected Mushroom, Bjork, Michael Jackson, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Radiohead, Joanna Newsom

 

[Dadracer]

Gregory Porter, Rickie Lee Jones, Keb Mo, T.Rex, Booker T and the MGs.............

 

[thecrow]

Through a headfier ive just discovered nils lofgren live acoustic. I have only heard 4 tracks so far in my car from my iPhone and spotify and it sounded great. Yet to try it through the hd800s. That is on the cards for tomorrow. Shows great promise.

Grace - Jeff Buckley

"Last dance with Mary jane" from tom pettys greatest hits album from around 1994

I hope I never from split enz's true colours album (from new zealand) was on high rotation for a while

 

[Moonhead]

Afrocubismo - Afrocubismo
 
AIR - Moonsafari 
 
Ane Brun - Duets
 
Atoms for Peace - AMOK
 
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Segu Blue
 
The Beatles - Abbey Road
 
The Be Good Tanyas - Chinatown
 
Beck - Modern Guilt
 
Beirut - Gulag Orchestra 
 
Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk
 
Ben Harper - Fight For Your Mind
 
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish I where an Eagle
 
Bill Withers - Best of Bill Withers 
 
Blue Foundation - Sweep of Days
 
Bob Dylan . Blood on the Tracks, The Freewheelin Bob Dylan, John Wesley Harding, Love & Theft, Modern Times, Tempest, Time Out Of Mind, The Basement Tapes, Planet Waves.
 
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend
 
Bob Mould - Workbook
 
Bon Iver - For Emma, forever ago
 
Bonnie Prince Billy - Master & Everyone
 
Booker T & The M.G's - Green Onions
 
Cannonball Adderley - Something Else
 
Cat Power - Jukebox 
 
Cat Stevens - Tea for Tillerman
 
Charles Mingus - AH UM
 
Coldplay - Parachutes
 
The Cure - Disintegration
 
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
 
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
 
David Bowie - Aladdine Sane, Diamond Dogs, Heathen, Hunky Dory,  Earthling, Low, Reality
 
David Gilmour - On An Island
 
Deftones - Around The Fure, White Pony
 
Depeche Mode - Best of 
 
Dexter Gordon - GO
 
Driver - OST
 
Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild
 
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Ella & Louis
 
Elvis Presley - Elvis at Sun 
 
Fela Kuti - Expensive ****/He Miss Road
 
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes, Sun Giant EP
 
Grinderman - Grinderman
 
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters, V.S.O.P.
 
Ibrahim Electric - Ibrahim Electric
 
Im Not There - OST
 
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
 
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas
 
Jeff Buckley - Songs To No One
 
Jesus & Mary Chain - Darklands
 
Joni Mitchell - Blue
 
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
 
Johnny Cash - Unchained 
 
Kaizers Orchestra - Ompa til du Dør
 
Kings of Convenience - Quiet IS the New Loud
 
The Knife - Silent Shout
 
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs From A Room, Songs of Love and Hate
 
LOVE - Forever Changes
 
Madrugada - Live at Tralfamadore
 
Marianne Faithfull - Broken English
 
Massive Attack - Heligoland
 
Mazzy Star - Among My Swan
 
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
 
Muddy Waters - Folksinger
 
Mulatu Astatke - New York - Addis - London: The Story of...
 
Neil Young - Live At Massey Hall 1971
 
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
 
Nick Cave - Abbatoir Blues, Push The Sky Away
 
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left, Bryter Latyer, Pink Moon
 
Nils Frahm - Felt
 
NIN - With Teeth
 
O Brother, Where Art Thou - OST
 
Patti Smith - Twelve
 
Paul Mccartney - RAM
 
Paul Simon - Graceland
 
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
 
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake, White Chalk
 
Police - Reggatta De Blanc
 
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
 
Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
 
Pulp Fiction - OST
 
R.E.M. - Green, New Adventures In Hi-Fi
 
Radiohead - Kid A, Hail to the Thief, In Rainbows, The King of Limbs
 
Raveonettes - Pretty In Black
 
RJD2 - Deadringer
 
Robert Plat & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
 
Rodriguez - Cold Fact, Coming from Reality
 
Ry Cooder - Mambo Sinuendo
 
Röyksopp - Senior
 
Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head
 
Searching For THe Wrong-Eyed Jesus - OST
 
Sigur Ros - ( )
 
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water 
 
Slint - Spiderland
 
Smiths - Smiths, Meat Is Murder, Queen Is Dead, Strangeway Here We Come
 
Smog - A River Aint too Much to Love
 
Snatch - OST
 
Stan Getz - The Bossanova Albums
 
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
 
Suicidal - Friends & Family, Vol. 1
 
Supertramp - Breakfast In America
 
Sun Kil Moon - Tiny Cities 
 
System Of A Down - Toxicity
 
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
 
Talkings Heads - Remain In Light
 
Teitur - Stay Under the Stars
 
Television . Marquee Moon
 
The The - Dusk
 
The Tallest Man on Earth - Wild Hunt
 
Thurston Morre - Trees Outside The Academy 
 
Thom Yorke - Eraser 
 
Tinariwen - Aman Iman
 
Tindersticks - Across Six Leap Years
 
Tom Waits - Orphans, Real Gone, Used Songs
 
Tool - Æniema
 
Tuung - This is Tuung...
 
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks, Into The Music, Moondance, Tupelo Honey
 
Velvet Underound - Velvet Underground 
 
The Verve - Urban Hymns
 
Wayne Shorter - Juju
 
Ween - La Cucaracha
 
Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams, Rules
 
Woven Hand - Consider The Birds, Ten Stones
 
The XX - XX, Coexist 
 
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
 
The Zombies - Odyssey And Oracle
 
16 Horsepower - Folklore 

 

[Taowolf51]

Yosi Horikawa, Son Lux, The Flashbulb, Ta-Ku, Punch Brothers.

 

[BobFiggins]

  Yosi Horikawa, Son Lux, The Flashbulb, Ta-Ku, Punch Brothers.

 
Actually have a few Yosi Horikawa songs! Stars is great!
 
Thanks for all the suggestions, I will listen to every single one of these tonight!

 

[RUMAY408]

Check out this Magiccabbage thread for acoustic music where the HD800 shines
 
http://www.head-fi.org/t/735144/the-acoustic-music-thread

 

[thecrow]

Thanks for that thread tip off

I hope it grows. Can't wait to get into it

 

[BobFiggins]

Any electronic (non-lyrical) suggestions? After listening to most of the suggestions this far most of it is music with lyrics. Great to add to my collection, but not necessarily my preference.
 
EDIT: Really liked some of the artists suggested:
Gregory Porter
Keb Mo
Teitur
The Flashbulb
Ta-Ku
 
Would have liked Eddie Vedder, but the sibilance in that album was rather strong. My ears couldn't handle it.

 

[Taowolf51]

If you haven't listened to The Flashbulb's album "Hardscrabble", I'd recommend it. Each of his albums are very different in style and feel, Hardscrabble is breakcore, and the HD800's are one of the few headphones that can really handle the speed and texture of that album. "The Bridgeport Run" is my go-to test song for speed and decay rate.
 
More recommendations:
Floex - Zorya (cool eastern european electronic that implements some woodwind elements, made by Tomad Dvorak, the composer behind games like Machinarium and Samrost)
Bonobo - Black Sands and The North Borders (more chill, beat-heavy music)
SBTRKT - SBTRKT (most of the songs have lyrics, but Go Bang is a good example of a song without lyrics)
Amon Tobin - ISAM (really textured music with a very eclectic range of sounds, Night Swim is a great song for conveying the sense of unease and fear in the listener)
Forss - Ecclesia (gregorian chants + electronic, pretty unique sound)
Savant (a lot of his songs have roots in a chiptune-style, but his music is not chiptune, tons of energy, very punchy and fast)

 

[olor1n]

@Moonhead - You have excellent taste in music sir.

 

[Moonhead]

Cheers olorn1, and ditto
- more where it came from  
 
But I do miss those HD800 

 

[pearljam50000]

Why did you sale your pair?