One song, can't miss, demo to the non audiophile

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#41
10CC - I'm Not In Love
check out the making of this on youtube if you don't know about it
Maybe the Godley and Creme; Strange Apparatus 🙂

Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 – Live at the Expo ’70
(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay or Norwegian Wood

regards
 
#42
This thread is fascinating. The music listed, for me, varies from "yeah, great" to "ok" to "run screaming from the room if you play that"...
And that's a good thing, it shows the amazing diversity in music that people with other stuff in common like.
It also helps to explain why it's hard to get a sound system that's one size fits all. No system is perfect, different distortions (whether harmonic, or just room frequency response or...) suit different tastes in difference ways!

Vive la difference....
 
#44
I usally use something from Stevie Wonder. Most like that and it's all very well recorded if you take his albums between the early 70's and the mid 80's. But something they are familiar with, is often the best choice...

I don't like Pink Floyd or the Dire Straits, it has no soul and no groove, wich is essential for me in music.
 
#47
gpauk said:
This thread is fascinating. The music listed, for me, varies from "yeah, great" to "ok" to "run screaming from the room if you play that"...
And that's a good thing, it shows the amazing diversity in music that people with other stuff in common like.
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analog_sa said:
Тhe question is absurd and shows lack of understanding how personal is the music experience and similarly the appreciation of sound.
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Waste of electrons...
 
#49
Most demo's i've been to play music that sound good on their speakers, and if you ask if they can play your cd on it, they refuse with an stupid excuse...

I always use the same tracks to test speakers because i know those inside out and can compare. And most of those are complex or very demanding for the system (like heavy dub with a very low bassline). And those always reveal flaws...
 
#55
You need an extremely good system and a decent room to hear the recording acoustics on various records. This is the recording engineer's art.

Santana Abraxis was a pan-potted record. Left to right with the drums in the middle.

Paul Simon's Graceland is not the worst thing I ever heard.

Supertramp Crime of the Century is interesting as I mentioned before.

Maybe 10CC I'm not in Love won some sort of prize?

Black Dog by the Zep always did it for me. 🙂
 
#57
Now gentleman, think back....... way back..... to early/mid 1960's (if you're old enough to remember without taking medication)........


Walking into an appliance store that sold those new-fangled console stereos....
And asking the salesman to put on a record....
So.... what might you hear?
Dean Martin's version (in stereo of course) of "Send me the pillow that you dream on"
Trumpets blaring out the right side speaker, chorus wailing out the left speaker, and Dean in the middle!

Dean Martin - Send Me The Pillow You Dream On - YouTube
Wow dee-wow-wow!.... "I'll take it!"....... "the wife will love it!"
 
#58
waxx said:
Most demo's i've been to play music that sound good on their speakers, and if you ask if they can play your cd on it, they refuse with an stupid excuse...

I always use the same tracks to test speakers because i know those inside out and can compare. And most of those are complex or very demanding for the system (like heavy dub with a very low bassline). And those always reveal flaws...
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What kind of music do they usually play?

I would think full orchestra has got to be the most demanding or piano concerto?
 
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