WONDERFUL. I wish there were more great audio (computer)phile playlists like this on TIDAL. In fact, there may be, but I just don't know about them and wish I did.
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WONDERFUL. I wish there were more great audio (computer)phile playlists like this on TIDAL. In fact, there may be, but I just don't know about them and wish I did.
I threw together Tidal Playlists (with songs I could fine) from the original post and tried to add the descriptions as well (Tidal limits the amount of text in the description).
Soundstage & Definition: http://tidal.com/playlist/e2a9e569-5aa7-4158-9768-bf51134dcbe0
Depth & Space: http://tidal.com/playlist/6be7abb3-3999-43a0-b5fd-ae749641825b
Separation: http://tidal.com/playlist/a20fef55-8fec-4c2d-9b83-bdfb57f8cadf
Imaging: http://tidal.com/playlist/babc5753-4ba8-47be-ae05-6a7d5ffae0d1
Cheers,
Jimmy.
Very nice idea to do specific playlists for specific characteristics and very cool of you to share. To these I would add specific ones for:
1. Fast attack transients
2. Bass region definition
3. Timbral accuracy
4. Presence
5. Reverb Tails
6. Dynamics
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Just a small feedback about this one where you apparently used something with extreme separation. It could be worthwhile to use a piece with several placements or intermediate separations to better gauge the resolution here.
South African Sunshine/ A. Ibrahim
Did anybody seen South African Sunshine/ A. Ibrahim - Enja records - on hires?
Did anybody seen South African Sunshine/ A. Ibrahim - Enja records - on hires?
I was just jogged to think of Matt Bianco's self titled, 2nd album - a very good workout for a system, testing overall competence.
Yes, those tapes where terrible low quality, almost a scam, it was better to buy empty BASF's and copy your self
And there was a lot of counterfeit cassette tapes as well and the same thing is happening all over again with illegal downloads and chinese illegal CD copies.
COming late to this but the links don't work for me. Tidal complains that they don't exist. Wonder if they expired?
I was just reminded of the value of classic Eurythmics pop standards, for system testing. Tests overall competence, the capability of a setup to handle 'big' recorded material, weaknesses in the ability for the sound to be unravelled are very obvious.
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1. Carmen Gomes inc; '' I'm on fire'' from Thousand Shades of Blue
http://www.soundliaison.com/
Placement is perfect on this young audiophile classic as well as the near perfect natural recording of the voice, but the real test for audio equipment when listening to this recording is it's ability to separate the kickdrum from the upright bass.
The two instruments are playing the same pattern. On less than optimum equipment it might be difficult to separate the two, but with good setup you clearly hear the upright at 2.00 and the kick dead center with a nice decay that one generally do not hear on commercial recordings.
There are lots of speakers and headphones with ''extended lows'' but low with definition is a whole different ballgame.
I think Pioneer has been reading this thread
as they are distributing publicity photos for their new MQA player playing the first album on your list.
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