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#2572 - 04/16/02 05:51 AM
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![]() veteran Registered: 03/29/02 Posts: 184 Loc: Honolulu, Hawaii |
Strange as this may sound - cause it's not the season, but the Christmas CDs by Mannheim Steamroller. They all sound just fantistic!
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#2573 - 04/16/02 06:51 AM
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![]() old hand Registered: 02/16/02 Posts: 82 Loc: Florida, USA |
Randy,
That is a great thought... looks like it could be Christmas in the summer for us! Rob
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#2574 - 04/16/02 09:29 AM
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A few unique recordings that haven't been mentioned come immediately to mind that are both artistically powerful beautifully recorded.
Pirates Ricky Lee Jones - beautiful production, vocal and instrumental articulation Ole Manos de Plata - Flamenco guitar, amazingly natural and atmospheric recording Rhapsody in Blue Michael Tilson Thomas - original score small band, incredible sound stage and energy, best clarinet glissando (beginning of Rhapsody) ever recorded! Huron Street Don Ross - solo guitar and with percussion effects so realistic the first time I played it I thought the kids had knocked over something in my living room Vavaldi Four Seasons Boston Symphony - Telarc recording - the old war horse still has legs, Silverstein's bow work has a crisp rosiney (is this a word?) texture you can feel So many more................... |
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#2575 - 06/01/02 08:18 AM
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![]() newbie Registered: 04/28/02 Posts: 3 Loc: Tennessee |
How about
Roger Waters - Amused to Death. It is recorded in something called QSound and some of the stereo effects sound phenomenal with my new m22's ![]() |
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#2576 - 06/01/02 12:08 PM
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![]() axiomite ![]() Registered: 05/13/02 Posts: 5171 Loc: western canada |
Ashley Macissac- Sleepy Maggie (slowly increasing volume with stereo switching L and R at the start moving into full mids with mild bass)
Chris Connell- Seasons (from Singles soundtrack; great clarity and guitar) Enya- Lazy Days (very full mids, nice vocal) Eric Clapton Unplugged- Signe (any song will do from this cd, beautiful acoustics, guitar, vocals, background noises) Future Sound of London- Calcium (my fiance's pick, typical dance bass, alternating sounds) Great Big Sea- General Taylor (PURE vocals including some male high strong mid notes and a favorite canadian band of mine) Holly Cole Trio- I can see clearly now (beautiful vocal, deep cello bass throughout) Kings College Choir- O come all ye faithful (Xmas song but has tight high vocals as well as the punishing bass that only a pipe organ can deliver!) Our Lady Peace- Superman's Dead (loud rock and another Canadian band) Sarah Mclaughlin- Ice Cream (soft smooth vocals with high tinny cymbols, nice clarity) Smashing Pumpkins- Drown (from Singles soundtrack, this song has a sharp screaming guitar about the 5 or 6 minute mark that you MUST turn down the volume for lest you be calling customer service for a new tweeter!!) Sting- Fragile (soft sounds, i like the song) Suo Gan- Ambrosian Junior Choir (Empire of the Sun soundtrack, beautiful solo vocal, pure and clear) The Rankin Family- Rise again (one note near the end hits a really high female pitch but should be perfectly smooth) The Sundays- Summertime (the twangs at the beginning really test the treble levels, i am not sure why it was recorded that way but on any speaker so far i've found that noise piercing) Watchman- Holiday (their latest release from this Winnipeg band which has some really rigorous mids and lows that truly test the distortion of your drivers) Whales- Contemplation (being a biologist i pick these things up along the way, nothing better to test subsonic noise up to squealing pitches like whale notes!!)
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#2577 - 06/01/02 10:31 PM
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![]() hobbyist Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 20 |
A quick addendum to my previous choices. I have been listening to a great deal of David Gray lately. His last album "White Ladder" which is only now going into full release in North America is as fine a work as one could hope for. Terrific melodies, sparse arrangements, lyrics that are poetic and meaningful without ever being cloying. If this sounds like a shameless plug, it is. He deserves to be heard. Enjoy.
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