What were your top musical discoveries of 2024?
Looking for music that was new to you and your collection that lit you and your system up last year.
Here’s my list:
Vinyl -
UHQR version of Steely Dan “Asia”
Original Master Recording of Grateful Dead’s “Workingman’s Dead”
Digital files -
Mac Miller “Circles”
Iron & Wine “The Shepherds Dog”
Jacob Collier “Djesse Vol.2”
Mokave “Afrique”
Skrillex “Quest for Fire”
Beyonce “Cowboy Carter”
CD -
Sinead O’Conner “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got”
This is at least what is top of mind.
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Heilung Forndom Wardruna
and a host of other “Viking” music. I had no idea the Norse Sagas and Eddas were being worked into modern-day music releases or that there’s a virtual army of online techno-geek linguists commenting on the translations of Runic lore. My undergraduate advisor, Herr Professor Doktor Martin Wierschin would have had a thing or three to say about it, God rest his soul. |
Right now I have Infinity RS-II speakers driven by a pair of Classé monoblocks. I just rebuilt the crossovers and they sound fantastic. They are very underrated speakers imo. They do dip to 2 ohms across the HF range and they need high current amplifiers if they are to really wake up and sing. They are a 5-way, 7-driver design with open-baffle mids and highs, and two 10" woofers in separate sealed cabinets. I think the airiness of the midrange, the precision of the EMIT ribbons and the respectable bass slam makes them a great fit for music like Bohren, especially if played at higher volumes.
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ARCHORA / AIŌN Album by Anna S. Þorvaldsdóttir, Eva Ollikainen, and Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Þorvaldsdóttir (Thovaldsdottir) is a pretty recent discovery of mine too. I am not usually a fan of the Spectralism school of classical music, but her stuff is so haunting and beautiful, with great building tension and intensity, that it sucks me in. |
@devinplombier -- Nice. I love old school Infinity speakers. I'm not certain, but I believe those Infinity utilized the Watkins Dual-Drive Woofer. I grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee, and was frequently found at Watkins Stereo Center, an Audio store founded by Bill Watkins, Sr. Watkins developed and patented the unique Dual-Drive Woofer that he later sold to Infinity. I believe they were in the RS-II.
https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/william-h-bill-watkins-a-true-american-audio-innovator/ |
