What are you listening to, right now................
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This is seriously tempting me to upgrade my creaking stereo system and invest in some SACDs..
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@Victor-Meldrew one of advantages to listening mostly to music from the 60s is the minimal equipment gain from spending.
As long as the sound is clear and balanced it’s fine.
I can imagine the money pit that prog-rockers must fall into as studios were engineering for the highest denominator home setup -
The bulk of SACDs are for classical music and jazz artists but a lot of the "classic" rock and pop albums have been re-released as a SACD. I have a handful of SACDs myself and they sound great on my 2-channel system.
Remember you will need a SACD player, whether a dedicated CD/SACD player or a universal blu-ray player to play anything but the hybrid SACDs, so this might not be the wisest investment for only a handful of CDs. My audio gear is expensive so it's all relative.
@Crucial Recordings from the 1970s still sound the best. Clear separation of the instruments and not brick walled/compressed.
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Victor-Meldrew one of advantages to listening mostly to music from the 60s is the minimal equipment gain from spending.
As long as the sound is clear and balanced it’s fine.
I can imagine the money pit that prog-rockers must fall into as studios were engineering for the highest denominator home setupI think I had a better system 30 years ago - Linsley Hood amp and JBL speakers - than I have now. My first career was electronics and sound and I was into this stuff then.
Still laugh at the nutter "audiophiles" with their "warmer sounding" gold-plated fibre optic interconnect cables though...
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@Bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial Recordings from the 1970s still sound the best. Clear separation of the instruments and not brick walled/compressed.
Too many producers trying to find ways to use the new digital technology and losing sight of the music?
George Martin's production continues to astound - simple, clear and just, well, perfect.
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@Bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:
The bulk of SACDs are for classical music and jazz artists but a lot of the "classic" rock and pop albums have been re-released as a SACD. I have a handful of SACDs myself and they sound great on my 2-channel system.
Remember you will need a SACD player, whether a dedicated CD/SACD player or a universal blu-ray player to play anything but the hybrid SACDs, so this might not be the wisest investment for only a handful of CDs. My audio gear is expensive so it's all relative.
@Crucial Recordings from the 1970s still sound the best. Clear separation of the instruments and not brick walled/compressed.
Has much been re-mixed and re-released to take advantage of multi-channel? I guess if it is it will be done 5.1? Trouble is that tech keeps surpassing available mixes rather than formats.
Sounds great though. Like @Victor-Meldrew I used to do sound work and appreciate what can be done. My interest is more in listening to what good producers could do with what was available. Some tracks, although mixed for transistor radios have some amazing complexity behind them that can still shine through.
These days a lot of my listening is compressed. Either streaming curated playlists or streamed radio shows where I can hear a lot of new old music so really good hardware would be a total waste. Half decent earphones and some Sonos gear do me well enough. -
@Victor-Meldrew said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial Recordings from the 1970s still sound the best. Clear separation of the instruments and not brick walled/compressed.
Too many producers trying to find ways to use the new digital technology and losing sight of the music?
George Martin's production continues to astound - simple, clear and just, well, perfect.
Yes the days before artists being auto tuned to all fuck were glorious days....
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Has much been re-mixed and re-released to take advantage of multi-channel? I guess if it is it will be done 5.1? Trouble is that tech keeps surpassing available mixes rather than formats.
This website has a lot of info.
**Are all SA-CDs multichannel?** No, especially in the beginning many SA-CDs released were stereo only. Nowadays most SA-CDs released are stereo plus multichannel. Two thirds of all SA-CD titles are multichannel and the general trend is up. -
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
When done well it is a distinctly good sound.
Yep. The likes of George Martin & Alan Parsons sure stretched boundaries but never lost sight of the need for the result to sound good.
Here's a video of 2 geniuses discussing production. The interaction at 5:01 is priceless.
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@Nepia said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Nevorian I've been listening to this too and thought I'd posted it ... but I guess I didn't.
Great song from a talk show band.
It shits me that the only way I can describe The Roots to people in a way they might recognise is in relation to a seppo talk show.
Easily in the top 5 live gigs I've seen, multiple times. Fucking excellent. -
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Happy birthday Roy Ayers. 80 years young.
Still going strong too. I was lucky enough to see him a couple of years ago at the Jazz Cafe.
One of the most sampled songs ever
Tuuuuuuuunnnnneeee
