Same here!
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A nomination from me today at least would be JJ Cale’s Naturally
@bruss I had a listen to Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds yesterday after seeing your post, that was good too, Chris Spedding and Herbie Flowers played on it, off to a great start
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A couple of other recommendations I used yesterday when testing my SN2/CHC CAP combo that are great system testers
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I have this on both vinyl and CD but I’m not sure I’d class it as one of my best sounding albums.
I definitely would class it as one of my ‘best’ albums. I would almost definitely have it in my top 10 albums of all time.
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I have it only on vinyl, it has really good sound quality, maybe a different pressing?
Colin, what is your version? I have the Music on Vinyl, 2011, Made in EU version. It sounds pretty good.
Shelter, the USA pressing? from 1980
Funny, I’ve always preferred the sound quality of some of Krauss’ other albums (including her live one). I have three on SACD and I just checked - the average dynamic range on each of them is 13. The average dynamic range on Raising Sand is 7. (The dynamic range on the LP is 10.)
A better question/concept might be: “If it can make THIS recording sound good, I know it will be great on everything else!” There are a bunch of recordings that make most systems sound good. They’re maybe not the ones you want use to test.
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How do you measure the dynamic range of your recordings?
Two ways. Yesterday I was on my iPad, so I used the Dynamic Range Database. My post yesterday used the album average. This morning I double-checked the numbers against JRiver, which has a track by track analyze audio feature, and the results were essentially consistent.
Edit - just a question. “Dynamic Range Database” in the above paragraph has a hyperlink to the website, but on my screen it does not seem to be highlighted (although it works). Is that the way it’s supposed to appear?
Absolutely. When I added a CAP to my SN2 and was testing it against a HiCap, I played quite a few “messy recordings” that don’t have “space”, “air” etc as they are hard to listen to on good equipment especially.
Peter Gabriel: Kiss that frog… “Go on then… Unscramble that! Show me what you can do…”
Dead Can Dance - Into The Labyrinth - Original 4AD
Tennessee Ernie Ford - Country Hits. - New analogue productions
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That told us!
I’ve always rather liked the record and think it sounds excellent.
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Destiny Road - Peter Green Splinter Group
Born 2b Blue - Steve Miller Band, more of a jazz album than his usual music
Midnight Blue - Kenny Burrell
Blue Mind - Ann Bisson
Mixed bag for me
Portishead - Dummy - Vinyl
Fleetwood Mac - Tango In the Night - Vinyl
CD - Depeche Mode - Delta Machine (sounds great streamed also on Spotify)
SACD - Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Streaming - Only really use Spotify at the mo but 4 Hero - Creating Patterns is always a go to for me
