I've enthused about this one before - on another forum - and some people said they liked it, so I'll recommend it again. North African/jazz music that just sucks you in. The playing is brilliant and it's the usual great-sounding ECM production - the bass clarinet sounds so organic you can almost smell the manure around its roots :-)
(And no jokes about BS - you know who you are :-) )
I hope that Adele is as good as I think it is, because I'm sure I'm going to buy it soon.
Comments on another forum have warned about the high levels of compression, if you want it on CD be warned that it had probably been mastered with MP3 sales in mind.
I think the vinyl is from the same mastering too.
Here is an image someone has made of the waveform, thank to Blueknowz.
Personally with such a lack of quality in the audio, I would say the product is not fit for sale. I would not advocate getting an illegal download of an album made with quality in mind, but in the case of this level of compression I would choose other options.
Hmmm - nasty, but no surprises. Florence & the Machine is almost unlistenable for this very reason. I'll maybe just stick to enjoying it over the radio in the car.
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals - Burn To Shine A really interesting alternative rock album, love it's diversity & outright genius. Bob Katz has this on his shortlist of really well mastered albums - it has very little dynamic compression.
The Young is giving an inspired insight on the two bass lines on the first track.
I was given the lovely black cd book set by JamieL who posts on here well over a year ago .
It took me months to get past disc three.
I still play disc three and two the most.Three just does it for me a group of guys just jaming in the studio and Miles thinks this is good i should go and join them.
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Tchaik 5 (Batiz/LPO on Nimbus S.A.M 45 rpm).
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I think the vinyl is from the same mastering too.
Here is an image someone has made of the waveform, thank to Blueknowz.
Personally with such a lack of quality in the audio, I would say the product is not fit for sale. I would not advocate getting an illegal download of an album made with quality in mind, but in the case of this level of compression I would choose other options.
Just thought I would warn you.
A really interesting alternative rock album, love it's diversity & outright genius. Bob Katz has this on his shortlist of really well mastered albums - it has very little dynamic compression.
The Young is giving an inspired insight on the two bass lines on the first track.
Disc three from this set
Alan ,
I was given the lovely black cd book set by JamieL who posts on here well over a year ago .
It took me months to get past disc three.
I still play disc three and two the most.Three just does it for me a group of guys just jaming in the studio and Miles thinks this is good i should go and join them.
Rad
(the proper one - not the quartet one!)
A bit of Paul
Never,
There is no style of music Paul cant do.
Shostakovich 8 (Concertgebouw/Haitink).
BTW your sig: 106 miles overnight @ 8 hrs = 13.25 MPH. Rock & Roll! (Must be the sunglasses)