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| Why can't all/most recordings be this good? "the sound they want is the sound that will sound good and is catered for the masses that use cheapo cd players"Very true. An audiophile friend of mine once visited a well-known recording studio and complimented the recording engineer on the great... | |
| Why can't all/most recordings be this good? +1 for Strange Angels by Laurie Anderson. Still love it after many years, and it also makes a great test CD - Monkey's Paw in particular. | |
| Johnny Cash...Sounding Better Than Ever? American 1 - 4 are all awesome, post-humous 5 is good but not quite up to the same standard. | |
| Are there any albums you consider perfect? In addition to those already listed above:Peter Gabriel - SecurityBoomtown Rats - Fine Art of SurfacingDimeola, et al - Friday Night in San FranciscoYes - 90125REM - Out of TimeTalking Heads - Little CreaturesPaul Simon - GracelandLaurie Anderson ... | |
| Any U2 Fans Here? Peaked with Joshua Tree, downhill after that. Regrettably, they didn't have the good fortune to break up and instead have become a corporate simulacra of what they once were.Where's Yoko when you need her? | |
| any new Beatle fans because of the remasters? Bongofury: "only the Beatles can claim the impact of dominating and defining a decade in the fashion that they did. You will never see that again, as music tastes now are highly fragmented and there is no persistent genre tied to this generation."... | |
| Rotel vs NAD As the above responses suggest, NAD is relatively warmer than the Rotel - which I found too bright for my tastes.NAD is decent gear and you probably have to pay twice the price of NAD to buy something appreciably better, but comparisons to $10k am... | |
| Do you ever wonder? Dave Matthews Band - voice like 6 cats in a sack. WTF.The Stones last listenable album was Some Girls, and their previous stuff has been played enough to last a lifetime. Somebody bury the corpse already; it stinks. U2 - everything post Joshua Tre... | |
| New Beatles remasters Funny, I bought the same 6 disks as the first 2 posters.I was worried that the remasters were more hype than substance, but I'm very pleased with the stereo disks. So much so, that I'll buy the Mono box when more are issued.I hoped these remasters... |