[DenverW]

I like to bring up a lot of Muse's stuff whenever I get new gear.

 

[kmhaynes]

MuteMath - any of their earlier albums.
Dream Theater - Images & Words or Falling Into Infinity
Pat Metheny - Imaginary Day
Grammatik - lots of his

 

[arielext]

As the metalhead I am:
- Anything by Tool
- Thirteenth step by a Perfect Circle
- Into the electric castle by Ayreon
- How to measure a planet? by the Gathering
- Design your universe by Epica

If 'How to measure a plantet?' doesn't let me dream away by the end of disc 1 I'm sure that I will never like that headphone.

 

[canfabulous]

Pat Metheny's "Secret Sory" - absolutely amazing in every respect and just gets better with age. But, I love this album so much that I purposefully wait past any possible "burn-in" period just to make sure I'm hearing it at the best that the cans produce.

Still Life (talking) is on my list. Last Train Home is just beautiful.

I'd also agree with the person above who said Kid A by Radiohead - great album.

There are so many albums but a few that I have cue'd up for a first play;
Tangerine Dream - Underwater Sunlight
Vangelis - Direct
Underworld - Beaucoup Fish (if only for Jumbo)
Brad Mehldau - Highway Rider

 

[340519]

All of the depeche mode catalog.

 

[Kammerat Rebekka]

Great idea for a thread and I can’t believe that I haven’t stumbled upon it before.
Oh well might as well chalk down some of my faves to check out from my rather sprawling cd and vinyl collection, whenever a new headphone arrives at the door. Music is the only stuff I can never get enough of. I still buy the equivalent of 1 album a day.

Dead Can Dance - Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun
Lucio Battisti - Anima Latina
Vangelis - China
Mwandishi (Herbie Hancock) - Sextant
Ochre - Lemodie
Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain
John Hassell w/ Brian Eno - Fourth World Vol 1;!Possible Musics
Elephant9 - Psychedelic Backfire ll
Codona - 3
Circle - Pharaoh Overlord
Klaus Schulze - X
King Crimson - Discipline
Stevie Wonder - Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants
Susanne Sundfør - Music For People In Trouble
Ulver - The Assassination Of Julius Caesar
The Orb - COW / Chill Out World!
Nils Frahm - All Melody
Magma - Üdü Wüdü
Fire! Orchestra - Exit
Eberhard Weber - Yellow Fields
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hyæna
Tangerine Dream - Logos
Serge Gainsbourg (+ Vannier) - Histoire de Melody Nelson
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady
Avantdale Bowling Club - s/t
ZU - Jhator
Steve Tibbett - Yr
Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On
Ryley Walker - Primrose Green
David Bowie - Low
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
Jeff Beck - Wired
Heldon - Stand By
Saagara - 2
Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden - Structure et Force
Neurosis - The Eye Of Every Storm
Frank Zappa & The Mothers - One Size Fits All
Edgar Broughton Band - Oora
Material - Hallucination Engine
Anna Von Hausswolff - Dead Magic
Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra
Autechre - Chiastic Slide
Traffic - The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
The Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms
NEU! - s/t

 

[canfabulous]

Oh well might as well chalk down some of my faves to check out from my rather sprawling cd and vinyl collection, whenever a new headphone arrives at the door. Music is the only stuff I can never get enough of. I still buy the equivalent of 1 album a day.

Some nice choices in your list!

 

[Mink]

Never really thought about it, but indeed there seems to be the same couple of albums I always want to play.
Aimee Mann - Bachelor No.2
Aimee Mann - Lost in Space
Mahler's Symphony no. 6 / Wiener Philharmoniker - Pierre Boulez
Monteverdi's L'Orfeo / Ensemble Elyma - Gabriel Garrido
Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe / Berliner Philharmoniker - Pierre Boulez
De Artsen - Conny waves with a Shell
Bach's Mass in B minor / Collegium Vocale Gent - Philippe Herreweghe (1998)

 

[340519]

Great idea for a thread and I can’t believe that I haven’t stumbled upon it before.
Oh well might as well chalk down some of my faves to check out from my rather sprawling cd and vinyl collection, whenever a new headphone arrives at the door. Music is the only stuff I can never get enough of. I still buy the equivalent of 1 album a day.

Dead Can Dance - Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun
Lucio Battisti - Anima Latina
Vangelis - China
Mwandishi (Herbie Hancock) - Sextant
Ochre - Lemodie
Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain
John Hassell w/ Brian Eno - Fourth World Vol 1;!Possible Musics
Elephant9 - Psychedelic Backfire ll
Codona - 3
Circle - Pharaoh Overlord
Klaus Schulze - X
King Crimson - Discipline
Stevie Wonder - Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants
Susanne Sundfør - Music For People In Trouble
Ulver - The Assassination Of Julius Caesar
The Orb - COW / Chill Out World!
Nils Frahm - All Melody
Magma - Üdü Wüdü
Fire! Orchestra - Exit
Eberhard Weber - Yellow Fields
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hyæna
Tangerine Dream - Logos
Serge Gainsbourg (+ Vannier) - Histoire de Melody Nelson
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady
Avantdale Bowling Club - s/t
ZU - Jhator
Steve Tibbett - Yr
Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On
Ryley Walker - Primrose Green
David Bowie - Low
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
Jeff Beck - Wired
Heldon - Stand By
Saagara - 2
Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden - Structure et Force
Neurosis - The Eye Of Every Storm
Frank Zappa & The Mothers - One Size Fits All
Edgar Broughton Band - Oora
Material - Hallucination Engine
Anna Von Hausswolff - Dead Magic
Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra
Autechre - Chiastic Slide
Traffic - The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
The Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms
NEU! - s/t

Wow that's quite the detailed list.

I also always put on alice in chains unplugged, peter Gabriel's secret world live, enigma's back to the Rivers of belief, and most importantly raging lung by the knife.

 

[bagwell359]

Change of headphones - yes, but also change in playback - more bits, better cartridge - kind of functions the same.

Yes: Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge - Wilson remasters crush all others
King Crimson: Larks Tongues is Aspic, Starless and Bible Black - more Wilson magic
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew, Tutu, Filles, E.S.P., Blackhawk
Stanley Clarke: first 3 LP's
Chick Corea: Light as a Feather, Crystal Silence
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet, and most of his catalog
Radiohead: Kid A, OK Computer, the Bends
Durutti Column: Guitar and Other Machines, LC, Return of, Greetings Three
Dead Can Dance: 1, Sun, Egg, Spleen
Felt: Splendor of Fear, Strange Idols Patterns, Ignite, Forever, Crumbling
Beatles: Rubber Soul
Portishead: Dummy
Patricia Barber: Cafe Blue
Norah Jones: Come Away With Me
New Order: Movement
Respighi: Pines of Rome
Penguin Cafe Orchestra: Music From
Section 25: From the Hip
Simple Minds: New Gold Dream
The The: Soul Mining, Mind Bomb
Who: Quadrophenia
This Mortal Coil: It'll end in Tears
Popul Vuh: Couer de Verre
Aaron Copeland: Appalachian Spring
Sad Lovers and Giants: Epic Garden Music
Thurman Green: Dance of the Night Creatures
Stevie Wonder: Talking Book, Innervisions, Superwomen
Sara K.: Play on Words
Roxy Music: Avalon - yeah yeah its a softball
17 Pygmies: Jedda by the Sea
Bernard Hermann: various
Eno: Before and After Science, Another Green World
Cluster & Eno
Cocteau Twins: Treasure
Dif Juz: Extractions
Jon Hassell: Vernal Equinox
Joni Mitchell: Blue, Court, Roses
Kate Bush: the Dreaming

That's my last 29 days - either w/ new EQ or hi-res streaming (that's different right)?

 

[Kammerat Rebekka]

Wow that's quite the detailed list.

I also always put on alice in chains unplugged, peter Gabriel's secret world live, enigma's back to the Rivers of belief, and most importantly raging lung by the knife.

Thanks man...though it’s about as detailed as my memory allows for I am currently visiting my folks and these were just the ones at the top of my head. Truth be told I could have gone for any number of well-recorded albums spanning from prog rock and folk to jazz and electronica.
One thing I did leave out was a couple of albums that aren’t recorded well! I know..seems rather weird, yet one of the most important things for any new headphone to be able to do, at least for me, is the ability to render less than stellar captured albums..ermm decently. Opposed to headphones that jack up the upper mids and treble aka force fake detail into my ears and effectively put a spotlight on all the stuff that doesn’t serve the music.
Said another way: if I can’t enjoy an album like Poa’s Blocco Mentale or The Upsetters’ Super-Ape...well then it is simply not a coconut for me.
Most well-recorded albums sound brilliant over just about anything. Finding headphones that do both ends of the spectrum beautifully..that is indeed the crux.

 

[natalieann]

Any Radiohead album