[moogoob]

Opeth - Damnation & Deliverance

Or, at least they show off Grados fairly well with all those acoustic guitars.

 

[jilgiljongiljing]

Ozric Tentacles - Spirals Into Hyperspace

 

[hawk]

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds-DIG!!! LAZERUS DIG!!!

 

[Drexel98]

-Hell Freezes Over-Eagles Live
-Moving Pictures (Remastered)-Rush
-Unplugged in New York- Nirvana
-Live at the Royal Festival Hall-Dizzy Gillespie and the United Nations Orchestra
-Classic Wynton-Wynton Marsalis

I could go on, but I usually use these as some of my 'reference pieces'. I know them all so well I will often put them in when doing comparison testing...

 

[Heyyoudvd]

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois


I find it to be an extremely well recorded album. The level of detail is simply amazing.

 

[aaron313]

Alice in Chains - Unplugged

 

[Mike Wazowski]

x2 for the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over!
Eagles Hotel California, the title song in particular, surrised me a lot when I got my K701s - more sounds there than I ever thought was there!
Deep Purple early to mid-70s recordings also benefited greatly.
Metallica - not so much, overall sound of course gets better, range, fullness, bass and all, but they don't seem to have on their recordings much in the details or soundstage department...
All Pink Floyd CDs, of course.
David Bowie "David Live".
Charlie Parker "With Strings".

 

[Steely]

Morph The Cat by Donald Fagen.
Even better SQ wise than The Nightfly, (which is amazing), and incorporates the newer 'Dan sound as well.

My new reference CD when testing equipment.

 

[rodentdog]

Todd Rundgren--Nearly Human or
Second Wind both recorded live DDD
awesome sound

 

[xnothingpoetic]

Quote:

Originally Posted by krmathis /img/forum/go_quote.gif Nils Lofgren - "Acoustic Live"

I see you recommend this album everywhere, and I can't thank you enough!

I have had this album for some time now, thanks to krmathis, and it is ****ing amazing

I can't count how many times I have played it over and over again. Everyone I show this album to is just floored by how amazing it is. Do you ears a favor and get this CD!

 

[Geoff Rymer]

Nowhere near the genres you were after, but...

I Love Everybody by Lyle Lovett makes my Grado/Mapletree combo sound amazing. Song quality is variable (it is a sort of lost songs compilation I think) but my god, it is well recorded!

Oh, and somebody here once listed Lyle Lovett as their guilty pleasure. I second that...

 

[Uncle Erik]

Both are binaural SACD. It doesn't get much better than that.

 

[feverfive]

For me, I'm finding ALAC files of Dire Straits (self-titled) sound great on my D2000's...

 

[indysmith]

I'm listening to Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms album right now. beautiful.

 

[Henmyr]

A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Green Carnation - The Acoustic Verses

Both have a very clear sound which suits me very good. Thirteenth Step has also got very impressive bass.