What are you listening to, right now................

JC

@MN5 and pain. So much pain.

mariner4life

@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:

Christie Hynde

i could listen to that woman sing all day

Crucial

@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:

@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:

Christie Hynde

i could listen to that woman sing all day

Should enjoy this then. Certainly doesn’t have the voice of your average 70 year old

MN5

This tune is a banger too

MajorRage

So, upgraded the sound systems in the lounge the other day. Purchased a sonos Amp with some Q acoustics 3050i. Neither are audiophile level geek ness in sound, but they do put out a pretty good sound. I compared them to the Sonos Playbar / Sub and the amp just blew them away.

So last night the wife went out, so I killed the TV, and lay down in front of the speakers and just listened. It's such a good way to unwind and when you get a great bit of well-recorded music, it's brilliant. I listened to a bit of Stevie Ray Vaughn, a few Jazz hits, a bit of Nina Simone & some pink floyd. Then to finish it off, and get back more onto my bogan roots, I listened to Jar of Flies in it's entirety. Was absolutely fantastic.

Anybody got any good recommendations of what sounds epic on decent kit?

MiketheSnow

@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:

So, upgraded the sound systems in the lounge the other day. Purchased a sonos Amp with some Q acoustics 3050i. Neither are audiophile level geek ness in sound, but they do put out a pretty good sound. I compared them to the Sonos Playbar / Sub and the amp just blew them away.

So last night the wife went out, so I killed the TV, and lay down in front of the speakers and just listened. It's such a good way to unwind and when you get a great bit of well-recorded music, it's brilliant. I listened to a bit of Stevie Ray Vaughn, a few Jazz hits, a bit of Nina Simone & some pink floyd. Then to finish it off, and get back more onto my bogan roots, I listened to Jar of Flies in it's entirety. Was absolutely fantastic.

Anybody got any good recommendations of what sounds epic on decent kit?

Queen, ELO

This lady

Bovidae

It depends on what you want to hear. When I auditioned speakers 10 years or so back I wanted to find out the bass response of the speakers so used songs with plenty of bottom end.

My go-to CDs for sound have always been DSOTM and Brothers In Arms. I have SACD copies of both too.

If you want more bogan music then Tool.

If you are streaming then it won't matter with the quality of the source material.

MajorRage

@Bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:

It depends on what you want to hear. When I auditioned speakers 10 years or so back I wanted to find out the bass response of the speakers so used songs with plenty of bottom end.

My go-to CDs for sound have always been DSOTM and Brothers In Arms. I have SACD copies of both too.

If you want more bogan music then Tool.

If you are streaming then it won't matter with the quality of the source material.

Good call on both. I really like well recorded live stuff.

I run out of listening talent to distinguish between streaming & CD / Vinyl.

Crucial

Back in the day setting live rigs we used to used Grace Jones “Living my Life” album.
Great Sly and Robbie bass and drums.

JC

@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:

So, upgraded the sound systems in the lounge the other day. Purchased a sonos Amp with some Q acoustics 3050i. Neither are audiophile level geek ness in sound, but they do put out a pretty good sound. I compared them to the Sonos Playbar / Sub and the amp just blew them away.

So last night the wife went out, so I killed the TV, and lay down in front of the speakers and just listened. It's such a good way to unwind and when you get a great bit of well-recorded music, it's brilliant. I listened to a bit of Stevie Ray Vaughn, a few Jazz hits, a bit of Nina Simone & some pink floyd. Then to finish it off, and get back more onto my bogan roots, I listened to Jar of Flies in it's entirety. Was absolutely fantastic.

Anybody got any good recommendations of what sounds epic on decent kit?

I fell dirty for pointing you towards an appalling harridan who’s talent is self publicity rather than music, but here goes. Frozen, off Madonna’s Ray of Light album. While the song is typically overblown and has her on it, William Orbit produced it and on a good system the sound is truly epic.

Any of the Rubin-produced Johnny Cash American Recordings albums will pop, his cover of “One” stands out.

Mama Don’t, off JJ Cale’s Shades album .

NIN Downward Spiral sounds even better on a great system.

Beasties Licenced to Ill (volume must be way up)

OK Computer

Burning Down The House, Talking Heads is brilliant if it’s loud.

Steely Dan’s Aja. Rikki Don’t Lose That Number of pretzel logic is maybe the best produced track on any album I’ve ever heard.

I’m doing my listening through a little valve amp and some Devialet Phantom active speakers. Loud is good.

MN5

@JC said in What are you listening to, right now................:

@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:

So, upgraded the sound systems in the lounge the other day. Purchased a sonos Amp with some Q acoustics 3050i. Neither are audiophile level geek ness in sound, but they do put out a pretty good sound. I compared them to the Sonos Playbar / Sub and the amp just blew them away.

So last night the wife went out, so I killed the TV, and lay down in front of the speakers and just listened. It's such a good way to unwind and when you get a great bit of well-recorded music, it's brilliant. I listened to a bit of Stevie Ray Vaughn, a few Jazz hits, a bit of Nina Simone & some pink floyd. Then to finish it off, and get back more onto my bogan roots, I listened to Jar of Flies in it's entirety. Was absolutely fantastic.

Anybody got any good recommendations of what sounds epic on decent kit?

I fell dirty for pointing you towards an appalling harridan who’s talent is self publicity rather than music, but here goes. Frozen, off Madonna’s Ray of Light album. While the song is typically overblown and has her on it, William Orbit produced it and on a good system the sound is truly epic.

Any of the Rubin-produced Johnny Cash American Recordings albums will pop, his cover of “One” stands out.

Mama Don’t, off JJ Cale’s Shades album .

NIN Downward Spiral sounds even better on a great system.

Beasties Licenced to Ill (volume must be way up)

OK Computer

Burning Down The House, Talking Heads is brilliant if it’s loud.

Steely Dan’s Aja. Rikki Don’t Lose That Number of pretzel logic is maybe the best produced track on any album I’ve ever heard.

I’m doing my listening through a little valve amp and some Devialet Phantom active speakers. Loud is good.

Steely Dan, great and polished live but absolutely zero crowd interaction. They didn’t even ask Wellington how they were doing tonight.

Bangin bunch of tunes though. My favourite of theirs is definitely....

Bovidae

Steely Dan is a great choice, and an audiophile favourite.

Crucial

Marvin Gaye - What’s going on? (Detroit Mix).

This is an accidental mix that IMO beats the album version. Instead of the vocal takes being layered over each other they are in separate cans so it’s like Gaye is duetting with himself.
Sit in the middle with a different Marvin in each ear.