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The Harbeths were very, very revealing (used by the BBC to monitor Eastenders I believe) and with well recorded trumpet were startling. But you have to decide if the purpose of your music system is for your mates to say "Holy Shit" at the visceral impact, or if it is for your long term listening pleasure and relaxation.So I now worry less about attaching spikes to every bit of equipment, or trying to count the rivets on Bernard Purdie's Ride Cymbal.......and just listen to the music,
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Exile on Main St Only know Go West's singles, but as for Scritti Politti I'd go with that 100%. I played that album recently and my wife was saying "this is so 80's!" in a half mocking way. But it certainly has its place and I do like the sound.
Given the period and the equipment some of the Blue Note stuff sounds amazingly good, same for Chess records. I used to listen to a lot of Chicago blues and the stuff on Chess just sounded so much better than other stuff from that period.
I also used to listen to quite a few things on the ECM label, very accurately recorded modern jazz. I gave up on all this - it worked when I had a half decent hi fi set up but in the car or on my ipod with the 'sound' removed its just a bit people going poodlepoodlepoodlepoodle
In recent times - Blak and Blue by Gary Clark Jr is fun soundwise, couple of tracks where they capture all the hiss of his fuzz pedal and its a real in the room type moment.
* as in haven't heard it for ages
Kevin Shirley's produced Iron Maiden Albums, Brave New World - Final Frontier. A little less raw, a bit smoother than Martin Birch productions.
Might just be better recording equipment, or my ears though.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
I agree. A Matter of Life of Geoff in particular sounds huuuuge to me. Maiden have never sounded as good as they do now.
There's a Prestige cut of If I Were a Bell by Miles Davis where the bass level is right up there and pushes everything along.