[KnightRT]

This I'm really curious about. If you had a friend uninitiated in the world of decent audio, what you play through your system to show her what she was missing?

A few favorites:

Any Binaural demo (Like, say, this)
Children of Dune - The Jihad
Five For Fighting - Superman
Andrea Bocelli - Nessun Dor
Quindon Tarver - Everybody's Free
Linda Eder - Man of La Mancha
Joe Satriani (anything)

DI

 

[Sovkiller]

Do you know any source to download binaural tracks or demos???

 

[KnightRT]

Probably the one to which I linked.

Here it is again:

http://www.binaural.com/DEMOS/InvitationLoud.mp3

This is an index of a few binaural sites:

http://www.noogenesis.com/binaural/binaural.html

DI

 

[AIM9x]

Quote:

Originally posted by KnightRT Five For Fighting - Superman

what the HELL were you thinking when you added that song in here?

 

[KnightRT]

:~)

For the first 90 seconds, before all the background jazz muffles the vocals, Superman is quite nice. It's a very clean recording, perhaps the best I've heard in that genre for outright detail.

Excellent for back to back comparisons.

DI

 

[fierce_freak]

A thread with the same topic of discussion can be found in the Music section of the forums. I'll give my reco again anyway ;D

NIN "The Fragile"

 

[Dusty Chalk]

I am very fond of this guy.

(Warning, extremely long MP3. Right-click->download, play later. For once, I envy those of you with Ety's.)

 

[jms007bnd007]

I already posted this answer in the other forum, but I might as well do it again....Dave Matthews Band "Crash"....especially track 6.

 

[Iron_Dreamer]

My favorite headphone recording is probably Dream Theater's "Scenes From A Memory," but for straight metal Iron Maiden's "Brave New World" is great, and of course Testament's "The Gathering" to test that low end.

 

[bong]

Isn't "Brave New World" great!

hail Brucie... i'm considering buying a ticket for the MSG show.

anyway, i like using these:
New Order -> 1981 - 1982 EP -> Everything's Gone Green
Ride -> Nowhere -> Dreams Burn Down
The Cure -> Faith -> All Cats Are Grey
The Cure -> Disintegration -> Plainsong

My brother likes using these (all Mobile Fidelity discs):
Counting Crows -> August and Everything After -> Round Here
U2 -> The Joshua Tree -> Where the Streets have No Name
Heart -> Heart -> These Dreams
Nirvana -> Nevermind -> Come As You Are

 

[krayzie]

New Order - The Perfect Kiss / Regret
Sting - An Englishman in New York / All This Time
Spandau Ballet - True / Highly Strung

Just a thought...

 

[Matthew-Spaltro]

Pink Floyd-Wish you were here
Black Sabbath-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
A perfect Circle
Tool-Lateralus

 

[screwdriver]

DMB - crash track 6
Steely Dan - two against nature

 

[chrono]

Sasha's airdrawndagger CD

 

[psyco1]

Primus - Wounded Knee shows off Grado impact quite well.