sbulack
Headphoneus Supremus
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I notice the "wink" - as you've figured out, not that funny at all, just an awesome track that I couldn't help plucking from your garden. I read your initial review of the Caliente, did some searches in the Music Forum for Within Temptation, where "The Silent Force" was getting strong appreciation. So, I purchased a copy, along with a Caliente to really appreciate it. Listening to that tipped my listening plane to add a few albums from The Gathering (How To Measure a Planet and Mandylion) and to get back into my Collide collection (Chasing The Ghost, Vortex and Beneath The Skin) - then to expand it with some new (to me) material from The Secret Meeting (the Ultrashiver album and two single EPs ShiverX and Shooting Laser Beams). It helps a lot with getting really excited about such music and bands when you've got a listening instrument like the Caliente which displays that awesome bass and percussion with such deep power while not losing any of the beauty, strength or intimacy from any part of the mids or highs in the rest of the performance. "Jillian" is a gorgeous juxtaposition of Epic-Scale Power and unsettlingly Up-Close Intimacy. Just a stunning listen!!! (as he shuffles off to his Rhapsody account and the Music Forum to do some searches on Iced Earth...)
Originally Posted by Skylab /img/forum/go_quote.gif Both Iced Earth and Within Temptation are terrific. Funny that sbulack and I both used WT's "Jillian" in our reviews ![]() |
I notice the "wink" - as you've figured out, not that funny at all, just an awesome track that I couldn't help plucking from your garden. I read your initial review of the Caliente, did some searches in the Music Forum for Within Temptation, where "The Silent Force" was getting strong appreciation. So, I purchased a copy, along with a Caliente to really appreciate it. Listening to that tipped my listening plane to add a few albums from The Gathering (How To Measure a Planet and Mandylion) and to get back into my Collide collection (Chasing The Ghost, Vortex and Beneath The Skin) - then to expand it with some new (to me) material from The Secret Meeting (the Ultrashiver album and two single EPs ShiverX and Shooting Laser Beams). It helps a lot with getting really excited about such music and bands when you've got a listening instrument like the Caliente which displays that awesome bass and percussion with such deep power while not losing any of the beauty, strength or intimacy from any part of the mids or highs in the rest of the performance. "Jillian" is a gorgeous juxtaposition of Epic-Scale Power and unsettlingly Up-Close Intimacy. Just a stunning listen!!! (as he shuffles off to his Rhapsody account and the Music Forum to do some searches on Iced Earth...)