agentsmith;179051 Wrote: > 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.
I think the older records, such as On Every Street sound much better. Love Over Gold sounds very "hifi" IMHO. I did prefer Love Over Gold though on my earlier systems. It's impressive for demoing. -- P Floding No, I didn't ABX it. And I won't even if you ask me. (Especially not if you ask me.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32576 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
