[SunDevil]

Hi Head-Fi'ers,

I'm looking for CD's and (Music and/or Movie) DVD's with SUPERB sound quality for DEMO purposes of headphones and Headzone.

I already bought Nah Youn Sun (Album "So I Am...") and a couple of other CD's like Keith Jarret's "The Köln Concert", but I am trying to find CD's in all other music styles aswell, mainly:
- Rock (also littler heavier/harder Rock music)
- Acoustic (unplugged recordings?)
- Classical
- Accapella
etc.

Of course I could search through a lot of threads, but I thought this would be the easier way and I think there a other people looking for DEMO CD's aswell.

Many thanks in adcance and greetings,
Peter SD

 

[SunDevil]

nobody any idea's???

 

[DavidMahler]

There's a label Called Reference......look into their stuff. I have a Mahler CD recorded on Reference its superb

 

[tpc41]

steely dan: aja and gaucho
donald fagen: the nightfly and morph the cat

im not sure if they fall into any of your desired categories, but they all sound fantastic

 

[nick20]

xrcd.. 'nuff said.

 

[883dave]

Eagles - Hell freezes over

 

[nick20]

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Originally Posted by 883dave /img/forum/go_quote.gif Eagles - Hell freezes over

on xrcd.. is sick.. it's pure musical bliss.

 

[s1rrah]

I highly recommend anything produced by Chesky records.

Their quite meticulous in so far as producing material fit for the most resolving systems imaginable.

If you haven't heard Rebecca Pidgeon sing, "Spanish Harlem" ... then your missing one hell of a nugget demo track.

Check HDTracks.com ... they sell lossless .flacs of a bunch of Chesky Records stuff.

BTW: If you sign up at HDTracks.com ... you get a five song demo download that is quite outstanding in my book. No money, no credit card ... just sign up and download the demo.

...

But GAWD!! You have to find a copy of Rebecca Pidgeon's rendition of "Spanish Harlem," ... really ... it's *THAT* good.

Should be required material in any demo arsenal, IMHO.

 

[Tokenganjaclan]

x-2 on Aja

But my all time fave for audio bliss is: Drum roll.........

West German Target of Dire Straits-Love Over Gold
If you can find a copy grab it. It sounds amazing. And can be had for $25 if you look hard enough!! This target was a U.S only so finding a copy is quite easy!!

 

[ozz]

Dire Staits -Brothers In Arms dvd-a and hdcd

 

[SR-71Panorama]

Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within

Either gold CD or standard are fine.

 

[rlmacklin]

Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" on 24-bit HDCD
with Eiji Oue conducting
the Minnesota Orchestra
(on Reference Recordings)
is stunning
("Appalachian Spring Suite" and "Third symphony" complete the CD).

Listen barefoot -
(it will "knock your socks off")

 

[scytheavatar]

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon. The level of detail will blow your mind.

 

[QQQ]

Anything made by Telarc.

Quote:

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon. The level of detail will blow your mind

There's a lot of different versions of it. A lot of them recorded badly.

 

[jilgiljongiljing]

SACD's
Peter Gabriel - Up
Beck - Sea Change
Rebecca Pidgeon - Retrospective
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Cowboy Junkies - Whites Off Earth Now! (MFSL)
Patricia Barber - Modern Cool (MFSL)
Bob Dylan - Blood On Tracks
The Pixies - Doolittle (MFSL)
Pink FLoyd - Dark Side of the Moon

CD's
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction (MFSL)
BB King & Eric Clapton - Riding With The King
Bela Fleck & Flecktones - bela fleck & flecktones, UFO Tofu
Cowboy Junkies - Lay it Down, Trinity Sessions
Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table, Crash, B4 crowded strts
Dave Weckl Band - Live, Synergy, Rhythm of Soul
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 revisited (DCC)
Metallica - Master of Puppets (DCC)
The Doors - Strange Days (DCC)
Diana Krall - Girl in the Other room, When I look in your eyes
Dredg - El Cielo
Enya - Day without rain, memory of trees
Fates Warning - Pleasant Shade of Grey
Eric Clapton - Unplugged
Godsmack - THe Other side
Gojira - The Link re-release
Iced Earth - Horror show, Burnt Offerigns
Jesse Cook - Gravity
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Incubus - SCIENCE
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment
Madonna - Ray of Light
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here, The Wall (MFSL), The Final Cut
Steely Dan - Aja
Yes - Fragile (MFSL)
OST - Gladiator
Nicke Creek - This Side
Nirvana - Unplugged
Paul Simon - Graceland
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun (Oringal master, not the new remaster), In Absentia, Futile EP
Rage Against the Machine - RATM
RHCP - Blood sugar sex magic
Roger waters - Amused To Death
Satyricon - Volcano
Steely Dan - Two Against Nature (...well actually all albums)
Primus - Sailing THe Seas of Cheese
Pink Martini - Sympathetique, Hang on Little Tomato
Tool - Aenima, Lateralus, 10,000 Days ( last one barely makes it though)
Type O Negative -Bloody Kisses
Zero 7 - When it Falls
System of A down - toxicity
Opeth - Blackwater Park, Deliverance


DVD
Santana - Supernatural Live
Eric Clapton - Crossroads festival (a good demo for how each band has a unique sound of their own)
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere (The best live dvd I own)
Dave Matthews Band - central park concert
Peter Gabriel
Muddy Waters - Folk singer (DVD-A)
REM - Automatic for the people (DVD-A)
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
Opeth - Still Life (The best metal album in surround sound)


....will update list if I can remember any more