Its not a speaker demo till someone plays that live version of Hotel California!
It's because brothers in Arms is one of the best recordings and a crap system will not reveal all the details. Mark knopfler is one of the best guitar players ever.
@stocktrader everyone knows this, it's just way over rated and everyone is sick of hearing it.
technical skill is not the issue, rarely is.
technical skill is not the issue, rarely is.
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Yeah, but "You and Your Friend" is on their 1991 album, "On Every Street". It's track #6. I like that track a lot and use it for listening tests. It's well-recorded and has lots of detail. I use the "Brothers in Arms" album as well. Great album.
I was recently introduced to Nils Lofgren's "Acoustic Live" album (which, ironically, on the cover shows him with a guitar that's clearly plugged in). "Keith don't go" is not bad, but I prefer "Some Must Dream". It's a good tune and superbly recorded.
If I want to push things a bit I dial up Joe Satriani, "Seven Strings". That'll usually rock the house.
On my do-not-play list is definitely John Mellencamp's "American Fool". Not because I have anything against Mellencamp, but I was showing off my TCA wares at a trade show and the folks in the room next to mine played that album over and over and over and over and over and ....... for an entire 3-day weekend. I haven't been able to listen to it after that.
Tom
I have not been able to listen to any David Bowie since he died. My wife had her best friend visiting and they played only Bowie 24/7 for 30 days, uhg!
Tom,
Good points on "Brothers in Arms" and "On Every Street" - both albums are very well recorded and can show off detail, texture, emotion - stuff that audiophiles usually look for. 🙂 And some good tracks too.
Also BIG fan of Joe Satriani here...
Something more proggy - see how this plays on your system:
Good points on "Brothers in Arms" and "On Every Street" - both albums are very well recorded and can show off detail, texture, emotion - stuff that audiophiles usually look for. 🙂 And some good tracks too.
Also BIG fan of Joe Satriani here...
Something more proggy - see how this plays on your system:
Don't forget about Buena Vista Social Club.
Never fails to annoy me.
It's like the Toyota pickup truck of music. Some singing, some guitar and lots of reverb. It will work anywhere.
It's like the Toyota pickup truck of music. Some singing, some guitar and lots of reverb. It will work anywhere.
I prefer to use 'ordinary'recordings I know well because then if they sound good I can move on to the better recorded material.
Aretha "chain of fools" then Shpongle "Shpongle falls" and almost a anything from Son de la Frontera "Cal"
Aretha "chain of fools" then Shpongle "Shpongle falls" and almost a anything from Son de la Frontera "Cal"
Yep. That's another good one.
For some reason OES is now 'spinning' in my setup. Except nothing spins. Not even the hard drive. 🙂
Tom
For some reason OES is now 'spinning' in my setup. Except nothing spins. Not even the hard drive. 🙂
Tom
Whow. There's a lot of hate against really good music in this thread....
Ironically, I have a Russian vinyl copy, that the mail lady left in the sun. I can still play some of it. She caught some flac for that.
jeff
Oy... Yeah. I had a couple of cassette tapes ruined because they were left in the car on a hot summer day. Things that don't happen to bits on an SSD.
Tom
Tom
Knofpler is great but Brothers in Arms IS a crap recording! Not the music itself but the mixing, production, etc. Way too bright and cheap sounding. That's not "detail" it's bad mixing. Too bad. Typical of early digital mastering IMO.
Brothers in arms : Too bright is how it sounds on system thats too bright. To my ears it sounds very nice, although there's a lot of early 80's digital reverb on it. Great bass.
The album was not digitally mastered, it was done in the analog domain. Same with tracking and mixing. The only digital was the tape machine it was recorded on. And the resulting CD of course.
The album was not digitally mastered, it was done in the analog domain. Same with tracking and mixing. The only digital was the tape machine it was recorded on. And the resulting CD of course.
It seems that the vinyl version was done in the analog domain, but the CD version wasn't:
:The Dire Straits Brothers in Arms CD I mastered in 1985, one of the very first albums recorded on the Sony 24-track digital machine, was the first CD I mastered that was totally mastered for the CD medium. It was also longer than the vinyl version. That original version had to be mastered in the analog domain, in spite of how great Neil Dorfsman's mixes were".
https://tapeop.com/interviews/105/bob-ludwig/
:The Dire Straits Brothers in Arms CD I mastered in 1985, one of the very first albums recorded on the Sony 24-track digital machine, was the first CD I mastered that was totally mastered for the CD medium. It was also longer than the vinyl version. That original version had to be mastered in the analog domain, in spite of how great Neil Dorfsman's mixes were".
https://tapeop.com/interviews/105/bob-ludwig/