High Quality Recordings AND good music
Jun 18, 2007 at 4:03 PM Thread Starter Post #1 of 21
villekille

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I have been trying to get some records now when I have all the equipment, senn HD650, PPA v2-amp and good CDP but the problem is that many of my records sound very bad! I have one great CD, it's "Sailing to Philadelphia" by Mark Knopfler, and it's just a wonderful album with great songs and very high quality. On the other hand, most of Paul McCartney's albums are unbearable to listen, the quality is very bad.

Any recommendations for a true hifi music which are also fun to listen and musical and great songs.
 
Jun 18, 2007 at 4:07 PM Post #2 of 21
Michael Jackson's 80s albums perhaps? I've read on the forums that they are well recorded.
 
Jun 18, 2007 at 4:09 PM Post #3 of 21
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I have been trying to get some records now when I have all the equipment, senn HD650, PPA v2-amp and good CDP but the problem is that many of my records sound very bad! I have one great CD, it's "Sailing to Philadelphia" by Mark Knopfler, and it's just a wonderful album with great songs and very high quality. On the other hand, most of Paul McCartney's albums are unbearable to listen, the quality is very bad.

Any recommendations for a true hifi music which are also fun to listen and musical and great songs.


Cheap re-issues - maybe .. ???
 
Jun 25, 2007 at 4:10 AM Post #5 of 21
Go on the Steve Hoffman's forum, plenty of good stuff here.

You might also want to look at the many "best *** cds" lists. I bought the last couple of my cds referring to those
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Jun 25, 2007 at 8:42 AM Post #7 of 21
What an enormous question! My experience is that having great sq actually leads one to appreciate music that might not otherwise have appeared among one's tastes. Certainly the low hiss on CDs when the format was introduced made me move a lot more to solo acoustic instruments, and I think that the same thing happened to the majority of the marketplace. When I upgraded to a decent headphone rig, I found myself listening to a lot more jazz because it's generally quite well and naturally recorded.

Given that OP is starting from Mark Knopfler I'd suspect that a lot of his/her music tastes are influence by FM mainstream, which is pretty much the opposite end of the recording spectrum from hi-fi. Rather than suggesting individual recordings - which seems rather fruitless - I'd say experiment with concert recordings. In my experience good reproduction equipment really makes a concert recording sing if it hasn't been tampered too much during the mixing process.
 
Jun 25, 2007 at 6:47 PM Post #9 of 21
The Flashbulb's album "Reunion" is amazing and extremely well mastered. He did everything himself sans the violins, from recording up to the mastering.
 
Jun 26, 2007 at 3:00 AM Post #13 of 21
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The Flashbulb's album "Reunion" is amazing and extremely well mastered. He did everything himself sans the violins, from recording up to the mastering.


Fantastic recommendation, thank you! I'm checking it out now, and really enjoying it.
 
Jun 26, 2007 at 3:31 AM Post #15 of 21
Neil Young is pretty peticular about his recordings. Well most of them anyways. Prairie Wind was released on a dvd/cd dbl disc set and the dvd has 96k/24bit audio on it. I also like Harvest Moon
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