Good Music for testing Audio Equipment

24bit said:

Bought the 24bit hi-res download at the SOUND LIAISON WEBSITE I think the Flac at the CARMEN GOMES BAND CAMP WEBSITE is 16bit just like the CD or ? But anyhow it's a superb album. And it is so much more than a tribute album. They really make the songs their own. A blues album with an ECM vibe. Well done! and that low 27hz A note from the bass in the beginning...whew...makes my .......rattle

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APP said:

Here is a glowing review of Carmen Gomes Inc's One Mic recording "Don't You Cry" written by HRAudio's ]Mark Werlin.
album is available from these distributeurs; https://www.soundliaison.com/
https://carmengomes.bandcamp.com/music (Redbook CD, Mp3, wav 44.1)
https://www.soundliaison.com/ (Flac, DXD, DSD)https://www.nativedsd.com/albums/SL1030A-dont-you-cry( DSD)

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Quad Vena II
INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER
….the warmth and detail of this Quad amplifier is just as much in evidence with the immediacy of the single mike, single take recordings on Carmen Gomes Inc.'s Don't You Cry set [Sound Liaison SL1030A; DSD256]. Playing the music in from my stripped-out 'music' Mac mini via the Vena II's USB input, the sense of the musicians sitting in a group around the microphone is palpable, as is the emotion in Gomes's voice as she cracks on the final phrases of Gershwin's 'Summertime'.

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......the ears and expertise of engineer Frans de Rond, ensures perfect imaging, great sense of depth, superior realism and complete phase coherence.
I love the result. There is in my opinion a no better tool for optimizing speaker placement and finding the optimal listening position, than a One Microphone recording done with the C700S.

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astrotoy said:

I have this album and his 2 years earlier Come to Find album, both on Audioquest (mid '90's). Before Reference Records, but still with some heavy duty audiophile credentials - Bernie Grundman mastering, Audioquest label, with JVC XRCD parallel release. According to Acoustic Sounds, the previous Come to Find album was analogue and they issued a vinyl version a few years ago with Kevin Grey remastering from the original analogue tapes. According to the write up of Audioquest Records (later Sledgehammer) it says they did analog recordings, not digital. So looks pretty audiophile (great sound) to me. Larry

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Migo said:

There a someone out there who agrees with you. Great review of the album in hifi critic:
"This is about as simple a recording as you’re ever going to hear: two musicians, one microphone and each track performed live, straight to DXD recording – and it’s totally enchanting…all that spontaneity comes over in spades in this set, which has the usual Sound Liaison recording quality, plus that unmistakable sense of two musicians just bouncing off each other, improvising and making the shape of the songs up as they went along. This is as live as it gets, with a real "in the room with the musicians" impression.'"—Andrew Everard, Hifi Critic

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