[Grahame]

This was mentioned in another forum on the web

Honor Roll of Good-Sounding CD's

Comments?

 

[Vitopanch]

Grahame,
This is an interesting list. There certainly is a wide range of quality with recordings in general and especially analog to digital transfers.

I am familiar with a few of these and am going through the rest now. At the very least I am finding some nice music that I am unfamilar with. I am listening with pleasure to the Penguin Cafe Orchestra right now.
Thank you,
Vito

 

[zeno333]

I always did think that my "Stop Making Sense" CD sounded great, and after reading the comments on it there I now see why.

 

[elrod-tom]

Very interesting indeed....thanks!!

 

[regal]

I have been trying to find out how to get a loadness value such as this for various albums in my music collection. There has to be a way to do it with a computer. I have Goldwave, Foobar, and Cool edit Pro.

 

[Purgatos]

Quote:

Originally Posted by zeno333 /img/forum/go_quote.gif I always did think that my "Stop Making Sense" CD sounded great, and after reading the comments on it there I now see why.

All this time I thought it was just the performances!

 

[Grahame]

Quote:

Originally Posted by regal /img/forum/go_quote.gif I have been trying to find out how to get a loadness value such as this for various albums in my music collection. There has to be a way to do it with a computer. I have Goldwave, Foobar, and Cool edit Pro.

If you have foobar, then you can add / check ReplayGain values for Tracks/Albums

I got the following Album gains using ReplayGain on Foobar from FLAC rips using EAC.

-1.52 dB for Body and Soul - Joe Jackson
-2.62 dB for The Night Fly - Donald Fagen
-4.06 dB for Citizen Steely Dan CD 1
-3.95 dB for Citizen Steely Dan CD 2
-3.78 dB for Citizen Steely Dan CD 3
-3.40 dB for Citizen Steely Dan CD 4

Which would seem to tie up with the article.

 

[Jahn]

i'm looking forward to the new Erasure album being mastered well - why not, since Gareth Jones is using a Benchmark DAC-1! Reminds me of the thrill when i saw that they used a Grado RS-1 to mix Union Street...