Spectacular isn’t how I’d describe Tom Petty... to each their own I suppose.
Tom Petty's Wildflowers in HiFi sounds spectacular on KEF LS50 Meta
I streamed the new HiFi release of Tom Petty's, "Wildflowers" (Deluxe Edition) on my new KEF LS50 metas. It sounded spectacular, as if the band was performing live in my living room. Are these recordings engineered for specific equipment or classes of equipment? The same music on my Klipsch rp 8000f tower speakers was clearly inferior.
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Super low compression on the 24/96 download. http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=Tom+petty&album=Wildflowers Plus an excellent recording. |
I am particularly impressed with that mix, Ryan's a total pro and is completely dedicated to his craft. He did tremendous work in gathering all those other tracks in the package that were never released. The family was involved and it was defintely a labor of love of sharing Tom's creative spirit with us all. . Ryan does all his work in the center of Topanga Canyon, where Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, David Crosby etc all changed music forever. Ryan [and Tom] used ATC SCM 50ASL for monitoring. Ryan recently expanded to create an ATC ATMOS set up for this "Wallflowers and all the rest" record. We were very lucky to help Ryan with putting the system together. Heres a cool you tube of the long time engineer Ryan and Toms daughter talking about the project recently. Buy this record! Its the very defintion of realism in recording. https://www.facebook.com/TransAudio/posts/10160143598645830 Brad |
I'm a week into the Meta's after a spell with the originals. Listening to Wildflowers, now. You are absolutely correct, that album was made for these speakers. Seriously though, these speakers are very revealing....even more so than the previous version. Great recordings simply sound fantastic. Great Hi Res recordings even better. |
