Pat Farrell;179027 Wrote: > agentsmith wrote: > > > Also, a "clean" track like Dire Straits "Love Over Gold" would be > very > > nice > > I'm not a great fan of using Dire Straits for critical comparison. The > > tunes are good, and the recording is excellent, but their music has a > lot of distortion in the guitars and synths in the rhythm, which is > very > hard to judge. > > I prefer vocals, typically jazz trios, such as Patricia Barber's Modern > > Cool. Or acoustic guitar, perhaps with vocals. Either of these are more > > likely to have no electronic "enhancement" on the recorded tracks. > > Solo piano playing classical works is also very revealing, but I'm not > > as much of a fan of that type of music. > > -- > Pat > http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html
Agreed in gerneral, but Love Over Gold is sort of an exception. It is quite acoustic and used to be commonly used as a demo disc. Agreed with classical piano. MP3 usually makes solo piano sounds grossly distorted with sibilance. Glenn Gould's 1982 Goldberg Variations would be a nice comparison tool. Also, with his humming in the background, on a good headphone system, it sounded like someone is humming to your ears and once it made me jump while listening in the middle of the night. Also, Jazz piano like Bill Evan's Trio or Keith Jarrett would probably shows the downside of MP3. I bought a lot of Bill Evans from eMusic and they sound horrid. -- agentsmith SB2/Pioneer DV-S733A - Benchmark DAC1 - Naim Nait 5i - Naim Ariva Speakers. Storage via Buffalo 250GB LANStation+300GB USB drive, Slimserver in old Thinkpad T30. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ agentsmith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1838 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32576 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
