What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol.IX)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 01 January 2013
With 2013 upon us, it's time to start a fresh thread. I've gone back to an earlier thread title because often the "why" is the most interesting part of the post.
Anyway, links:
Volume VIII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...nt/12970396056050819
Volume VII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...6878604287751/page/1
Volume VI: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878604097229
Volume V: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605140495
Volume IV: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605795042
Volume III: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607309474
Volume II: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878606245043
Volume I: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607464290
I'm finishing-up your Doors chronology tonight Larry. Just got a nice original Elektra vinyl of Morrison Hotel this week. Sounds wonderful.
LA Woman is the 2009 Rhino vinyl 180 g release with rounded corners and yellow hologram. Cool jacket! Also nice SQ.
Good album! 
And another! 
Good album!
Personally she just doesn't float my boat. One of those artists I know who is good that maybe one day I will like but not at the moment.
Cave Singers - Naomi !
Clannad - Nadur. Great album and lovely on a rainy Sunday; not very surprising and highly in line with their other albums, but I like their music. Nadur is not the best recording in terms of SQ though.
Sounding good enough to buy- darkroom: gravity's dirty work
Cerys Matthews hosts an audience with The Clash at the Maida Vale studios. This is excellent....
Telemann: Funeral Music for Garlieb Sillem
Sunday...why not?
brings back memories of the Blue Note, Hoxton Square in the 90's.
Jason
Graeme apologies that it took me so long to do a shootout between this and the original French produced cd.
I seem to recall that the America albums were secretly remastered for cd a few years back in the US (could be wrong) but this remaster never made it to Europe so any European pressed cd should still be an original mastering.
Re the sq on this it appears that SH has accentuated the mid range and lost some of the finer treble and bass detail. This is a mastering technique he has used now for a number of years.
The disc does sound better than the old one in that sense because you have better back to front depth, better instrument and vocal placement (in the mid range) but he has ever so slightly squashed the dynamics of the original to achieve this and I do mean ever so slightly.
Personally I think this particular disc suits this style of mastering.
You can hear this squashing in the synth in Sandman just loses that little bit of air in the treble and in I Need You it "sounds like" one of the band stomps his foot two or three times during the opening minute or so of the song which you can hear clearly on the original but have to strain to hear on the AF disc.
However the mid range improvement means you now know that in the start of Children you are listening to 3 acoustic guitars as you can hear them clearly.
Since he has slightly squashed the dynamics he has made the newer disc louder, some would call that compression but it again isn't that bad as I doubt if he has clipped the disc in anyway.
Just to be sure of what I was hearing I checked both discs EAC readings and also their DR ratings and it confirmed what I was hearing but having said that the original disc was too quiet and needed a remaster.
joerand, picking up where I left off.. "woke up this morning had myself a beer"
the initial excitement starts to reduce...
Whats this like Bert?