recommend me an album to impress!
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I have always found some of the best cds (that I have anyway) for bringing out different aspects of a hifi and showing you just how good it is are;
Joss Stone - The Soul Sessions
Mark Knopfler - The Ragpicker's Dream
Robert Plant - Fate of Nations
Pink Floyd - Pulse
And a Naim Audio test cd, which has a great variety of very, very well mastered tracks on it.
These are all very well recorded and mastered and between them quite varied, they will test everything from the highs to the lows ...a great deal of midrange though.
I would also suggest something well mastered that has some woodwind instruments and a cello or double bass. A lot of audio equipment fails spectacularly with bringing out the natural sound of instruments with wooden sounding chambers. I really don't know how to describe this exactly, but you'll probably know when it's right and when it's wrong. I think the best way I can describe it is, it should sound 'natural' and 'realistic' not forced or processed or 'digitised'.
Oh also, Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold is pretty darn good for testing the midranges iirc (I haven't listened to this cd on my hifi cor a long time, as it's been in the car forever).
However, at the end of the day we spend all this money on hifi to listen to the music we enjoy, so while I can advise some very well mastered cds to you to try out ...I really suggest you listen to what you like, still ...you might find some new stuff you didn't know you liked
I know there are some fantastically well produced Jazz albums around, but on the whole I don't like Jazz much, I do like sax-blues Jazz ...but the vast majority I do not. So I don't sit there listening to it thinking ...wow my hifi sounds good ...shame about this awful music though
...listen to the music, not the gear.
Joss Stone - The Soul Sessions
Mark Knopfler - The Ragpicker's Dream
Robert Plant - Fate of Nations
Pink Floyd - Pulse
And a Naim Audio test cd, which has a great variety of very, very well mastered tracks on it.
These are all very well recorded and mastered and between them quite varied, they will test everything from the highs to the lows ...a great deal of midrange though.
I would also suggest something well mastered that has some woodwind instruments and a cello or double bass. A lot of audio equipment fails spectacularly with bringing out the natural sound of instruments with wooden sounding chambers. I really don't know how to describe this exactly, but you'll probably know when it's right and when it's wrong. I think the best way I can describe it is, it should sound 'natural' and 'realistic' not forced or processed or 'digitised'.
Oh also, Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold is pretty darn good for testing the midranges iirc (I haven't listened to this cd on my hifi cor a long time, as it's been in the car forever).
However, at the end of the day we spend all this money on hifi to listen to the music we enjoy, so while I can advise some very well mastered cds to you to try out ...I really suggest you listen to what you like, still ...you might find some new stuff you didn't know you liked
I know there are some fantastically well produced Jazz albums around, but on the whole I don't like Jazz much, I do like sax-blues Jazz ...but the vast majority I do not. So I don't sit there listening to it thinking ...wow my hifi sounds good ...shame about this awful music though
...listen to the music, not the gear.
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Soldato
Nice setup there mate - As for album, I'd have to recommend Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
Soldato
Fleet Foxes
Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid Album is a must
Mumford and Sons
Cold Play
Excellent music that will show off your Set-Up
When I used to have a B&O system, I used to put on some Opera (Lakme - Flower duet) to show it off, Always impressed!
Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid Album is a must
Mumford and Sons
Cold Play
Excellent music that will show off your Set-Up
When I used to have a B&O system, I used to put on some Opera (Lakme - Flower duet) to show it off, Always impressed!
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