Does Every Track Sound Great on Your System?


How do you know if it is the recording or your system?

By way of example with a focus on bass, for some songs I like the amount of bass, then another song I feel like it needs more bass to hit harder, and then another song I feel like there is too much bass and it is boomy. Does that ever happen to you? I feel like I am getting the treble sorted out, but going back and forth on the bass.

Can anyone listen to the first 20 second of the song Temptation by Diana Krall from the Girl In The Other Room album and let me know if there is a bass component that is a bit much? The vocals sound good so no issue there.

Thanks.

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From Wikipedia:

The original 1973 LP was released on two discs, while the 1992 and 1995 CD remasters put the album on one disc as it was slightly less than 80 minutes. The 30th anniversary edition followed the original format, splitting the album across two discs to allow the inclusion of the bonus tracks, while a DVD on the making of the album was also included. The album has also been released by Mobile Fidelity as a single disc 24 karat gold CD. The album (including all four bonus tracks) was released on SACD (2003), DVD-Audio (2004), and Blu-ray Audio (2014).[21] These high resolution releases included the original stereo mixes, as well as 5.1 remixes produced and engineered by Greg Penny.

 

Unfortunately Funeral for a Friend is the first track and it takes a good 20+ minutes for things to really warm up and sound their best so I always have to repeat it at the end if it is the first disk I'm listening to.  I assume your version has the acoustic Goodbye Norma Jean included?

So who released the 30th anniversary edition, @toddalin  ?  (Just curious is all.)

And no, both of my remastered Yellow Brick Roads are single discs (76 minutes long, I believe) and do not include any bonus tracks.  No acoustic Norma Jean.  My only other Elton John CD is a DDD that is live in Australia with, I think, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.  It does have Norma Jean.  I haven't listened to it in ages.  I have it pulled out in its slot about an inch as I am going to give it a spin next session.  As an aside, I used to like Elton John a lot, and I think that there was a time in the the late 70s when I probably had every Elton John 8 trcak except the self titled (my sister had that LP).  I still wouldn't mind having a good sounding remaster of Don't Shoot Me--Texas Love Song is great.

. . . oh, and as far as Funeral For A Friend, @toddalin  , I usually listen after I eat, around  7 or 8 pm or so, so while I am preparing dinner I have the tubes warming up, and then as I am eating I have my system playing some background at a low level, so when I went back and plugged in Yellow Brick Road tonight, Funeral was ready to thunder.

Original Album Produced by Gus Dudgeon

Deluxe Edition SACD Produced by Greg Penny

Released by Island Records a Universal Music Company

Island Records is a record label owned by Universal Music Group (UMG) and is based in New York. Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong founded the label in Jamaica in July 1959, with a focus on Caribbean artists and music.

https://www.discogs.com/release/3339428-Elton-John-Goodbye-Yellow-Brick-Road

 

I set my sub to blend using my cd of "Eddie Gomez"....on the Denon label. This is my reference. Cannot keep readjusting to every other recording I have. When I listen to the MUSICIANSHIP, which is 1st on my priority list, everything else falls into place. I listened to LZ IV last night, cranked to the optimum level (every recording has an optimum level), and I was just jammin’ to them boys. Yes, my system conveys all of those qualities I listen for, and then some. Could not be happier. I have tried eq, but prefer less electronics and cabling, as I hear the negative impact it brings to my ears. Obviously, ymmv. My best, MrD.

Thanks, @toddalin  , come to think of it, I do remember losing a bidding contest on ebay for that SACD remaster.  I am afraid that I am a tad OCD, and at the time I saw that, I thought it would be nice to have a "audiophile" copy of Yellow Brick Road that was closer to the double LP format that it was originally released as.  And I still would rather have it in a two CD set as opposed to all on one 76 minute disc, but the things I get OCD on come and go and now I don't feel as strongly about that particular one.

Out of curiosity, how does that particular SACD remaster sound?