Top 5 Audiophile Recordings! Best of the BEST!
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Jazz at the Pawnshop, OMG thank you so much! I first heard this in a Hi-Fi dealership back in the late 1970's but never knew or couldn't remember the name. I have searched for decades to rediscover this recording. This was an unexpected gift to me!
I heard a song twice within a close proximity when I was a young kid. Never heard it again. Didn’t know the name of the song or the artist.
I only remembered they sang something about Maxwell.
I thought maybe it was just an old Maxwell House coffees commercial.
Fast forward 20 years. I’m at a bar looking for a song on the jukebox, when I see a song called Maxwell’s Silver Hammer by the Beatles. My heart leapt into my throat. I pressed play and BOOM!
Twenty years of searching lol
It’s a great feeling
@@tomdickharryjr5451 I hate when this happens. I'm still searching my subconscious for the lost jewels.
@@robertwoodward9231 Is that as in real ones or as songs?
@@mozdieloz3826 I wish I had as many rubies as records but for me it's very difficult to pick a few, at being the best sounding. I will say that Joan Armatrading and Steely Dan would be in the mix: Thank you.
That's really awesome to find something after all this time.
He picked two Swedish recordings, ‘Cantate Domino’ and ‘Jazz at the pawnshop’. Being from Sweden myself I cannot agree more. These are giants in well recorded albums of all time.
Jazz at the pawnshop is really unusual 👍
Much love for Take Five. I first heard it when I was a kid, about 50 years ago. I've listened to it literally thousands of times over the years, and it never gets old. Same magic with every replay. I loved how it was used in Pleasantville.
Ron, thanks for just being you today. This is why I love you from the day you started your channel! You love music, and it’s shows what a humble and honest guy, husband, and father you are! Great LPs! Want a laugh! My father bought me my first drum set when I was in 5th grade for Christmas. As I waited for the excitement of Christmas morning to slow so I could que up Alice Cooper, The Killer LP. My father calmly walked in took it off the turntable and put on Take Five! Turned to me and said “ there, now learn how to play!” And keep that shit off my turntable! Thanks for the memory my friend.
Luv that stuff 😅
great story. Killer is a great album and so is Take 5. we can have it all!
Cantate domino was recorded in Sweden. I heard "Julsang" on a reel to reel in the 70's at a hifi show through electrostatic speakers. Blew my mind then - still does. Very old but great choice.Cantate Domino and Jazz at the Pawnshop are both Swedish on the Proprius label in fact. Sad that such old recordings have still not been bettered today.
Some of these are old friends - some are new to me. Thank you for opening up some sound that is exactly the kind of music I really love.
You should definitely add "Scheherezade" with Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony to a new Top 10 list of best audiophile recordings.
Cantate Domino has tracks in Swedish, German, French and English. The choir is from Sweden.
Please do not stop there.. Jazz at the pawn shop is recorded in Stockholm, Sweden also.
Svenskarna vet vad de gör!
Thanks guys!
@@AmazonasBiotop Indeed. Both recordings were made by Propius Records in Sweden.
Funny that I'm now 40 years later hear Jazz at the pawnshop... My childhood friends dad was playing this record often when I was at their place! He always talked about it as he was in the audience at the recording of the gig at the famous jazzclub "Stampen" in Stockholm ("Stampen" a slang word for a Pawnshop in Swedish)! I had forgot this record as I havent heard it on at least 30 years!
2 Swedish records out of five is not bad!😁
When I was still making recordings the comment I heard the most was that people were not used to turning the volume knob way more then they were used to. I always responded that if you want the recording to be a re-enactment that it was neccesary, if you wanted it to be just a postcard then I could just normalize it.
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories is for audiophiles definitely. You can test any audiosystem, you can evaluate all frequencies, try different genres of music and simply enjoy. All in one album
100% this. A masterful recording
Yes.. Should possibly say more but yes
True story
It's overpriced as hell :(
I think the Homework record beats RAM, the songs Phoenix, Da Funk, High Fidelity and Rock'n roll are just top tier
I've listened to three of the mentioned here. And they are phenomenal recordings.
A quirk of audiophiles (and there are many 😂) is that we sometimes listen to music we are not into, mainly due to the sound quality and/or production. Hip hop and rap etc usually sounds so tight and dynamic, even though it’s not usually my genre at all.
I don’t find the modern hip hop production pleasurable, too distorted for my taste. Old school is great!
I think it’s the punchy bass and small percussion and synth sound that sound nice to me, but not my best genres at all.
Yeah like for example Astroworld is an amazing sounding album
It’s a beautiful day out and now I am in my man cave listening to Miles. I finished Cantate Domino. Thanks for the list.
Why don’t you make this a series...
Each genre rock classical etc...
Love this idea!
good shout!
Yes and some superb recordings are very mainstream and not sold as audiophile. It’s always nice to discover those. REM Automatic for the People is one example.
Agreed. One of my favorites for stereo separation is Machine Head by Deep Purple, which brings me to my question: Is there a device, a DAC, a setting, that can remove the tape hiss from older recordings that suffer from primitive recording technologies?
@@patrickstingley4126 CEDAR was very good but there is always a trade off sonically. Less is more.
Ok, last week I set up my system according to your method and was blown off my chair by the improvement. Now, not being a jazz fan at all, so not having listened to any one of those albums, I am bursting at the seams to download and venture into jazz after work today!!
Awesome!
Check out:
John Coltrane - Blue train
Hank Mobley - Soul Station
Miles Davis - Relaxin'
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
They're really accessible to get into jazz, and imho are among the best recorded
Lots of great choices here, however I was surprised to see no Steely Dan or Donald Fagen. Donald Fagen was an absolute sound perfectionist and made sure all of his records sounded as crisp and musically tight as possible. I believe "The Nightfly" deserves a spot on this list.
Eja
I used to play The Nightfly a lot back in the early 80s (when I had a turntable). Recently rediscovered it again on Spotify and it's just as fun to listen to now.
Totally agree! Aja and Nightfly are insane on my system!!!
DF is a perfectionist. Guy´s still alive.
Nightfly is too bright for me! Good content though.
I agree with all of your choices and own 4 of them already. Thank you for choosing Satchmo Plays King Oliver. I'm adding that to my collection right now!
Cantate Domino is ridiculously good. It uses every bit of my system. It's so delicate. Amazing stuff.
The record from Beck Morning Phase has a great sound presents, the production is fantastic.
I would recommend good to high end speakers. I used Totems, this album comes to life.
Are sound presents similar to Christmas presents? And I kinda prefer low to mid end speakers for best musical tonality and that square root of 2 feel we all yearn to groove to in our soul.
Cantante Domino is MIND BENDING!!!!
I quit vinyl in 1980 something, when the CD-ROM was intro, now both live in my work shop lol
Fabulous recommendations. I’ve got them on CD as I live in Sri Lanka and access to vinyl is complicated. Playing these off a Wadia CS player is sheer heaven. Can only imagine how they must sound on vinyl.
I'm not a massive fan of the band by any means. But, lately I've been listening to a DSD256 rip of Depeche Mode's Violator LP. The production, attention to detail and overall sonic signature just sound immense. There's not many modern LP's I've heard with such strong production values.
It has and always been a record unto itself.
I love the myth, that everyone was into alternative music in the early 80's.
Couldn't be farther from the truth.
I remember going to see Depeche Mode live in a medium size nightclub.
There must of been 50 people there.
@@rosssmith8481 By 1990, though...
Amazing album ! Doesn’t matter where you drop the needle!
Even my early 90s CD sounds absolutely stunning. Violator is an album for the ages.
What speakers are you using that you found complement jazz and what amplifier are you using that are your favorite with jazz sense speakers and amplifiers have a sound of their own. What turntable and what stylus are you using.
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Yamamoto Tsuyoshi Trio - Midnight Sugar on 2 x 45 RPM vinyl gets my vote
you hit it! That is better than the pawn shop. For shure.
I prefer Misty by the same trio. Very dynamic piano.
Jeez!! Just listenes to Jazz in the Pawnshop!! What a recording! Especially the drums, you can feel the spatial difference between toms, snares, hi hats, unbelievable. Anf this is only on s budget system, Klipsch 600s, SMSL 300 amp and a Nobsound mini tube preamp.
I have always gone back to the 'Chris Botti in Boston' Blue-Ray. Its mixed to perfection, and has so many different sounds and dynamics. It's amazing. If you like Jazz, smooth Trumpet playing, and music in general, you are missing out if you haven't watched it.
Every guest performance was outstanding. Superb video and audio.
Of the two I have from you list (Miles, Brubeck) I agree they are at the top. A fairly obscure one I found at a thrift store is Marilia Medalha - Caminhada. It is a Brazilian recording. The first time I played it, I was blown away at the quality of the recording - particularly of the separation of the instruments. I posted it on my channel but of course they never sound as good here as on the turntable. However you can get a sense of what superb job of recording they did.
Oh wow, thank you for that Marilia Medalha record recommendation!
I love the 2L recordings. 2L places the microphones in the middle of the orchestra that plays in a ring around them. This gives a very different listening experience from everything else I heard.
You will like "Chasing the dragon" because they use techniques like this at "Air Studios" when recording orchestra. They use binaural heads also.
Great recordings, to bad Lindberg is all in with MQA
I never thought I was much of a jazz fan either till I heard
Slowly rolling camera - Juniper
That album really does blow me away
I usually avoid "ratings" videos, but I like that you chose the quality of the recording and playback over personal biased music tastes. It's a real pleasure to listen to great recordings even when they are not in your musical preferences. I've added a few to my list to listen, thank you!
I have no doubt that those are the best sounding records in your collection.
When I first got into audio the go-to audiophile record, for dealers trying to impress would be customers, was Sheffield Labs vinyl Dave Grusin's Discovered Again. When I got back into audio years later it had been replaced by Patricia Barber's Café Blue. Sound quality on Jazz at the Yawnshop is top notch but just too boring for me. I do agree that, to some extent, Kind of Blue is THE jazz album for people who don't like jazz. But for me Kenny Burrell's Midnight Blue is even more accessible. Not one offending note on that one and the whole album just flows and grooves.
For someone who doesn't like jazz there are a lot of jazz records there. But your right they are some pretty amazing records.
To add: Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 (Herb Alpert Presents)
I have many great audiophile records. If I had to pick one it would be Flamenco fever. A direct to disc record by M&K. Kinda rare and expensive but very real and dynamic sounding.
Kind of blue is s masterpiece of musicality and recording methods. Steely Dans "Gaucho" is another one of my go to records for clean production. "Speaking in melodies" by Michael Ruff would also be on my list.
Man I've been thinking about Gaucho for a while now. I now know the shop that's got it and I'm going when the sun comes up..
I have only seen the first choice and am already in agreement. That record is absolutely sublime!
I also have Take Five, bought it at the Woolworth Department store in Benton, il in the early 60's new for about a dollar, I think. It still sounds great almost 60 years later
Hi! Looks like I'm late to this party. Just wanted to say thanks. I have been slowly getting my stereo to sound better and better, and it is quite good now. Its gotten to the point where its less about the music and more about the recording - and that lead me here. So I glad I found these. Listening to your no. 1 right now and I am getting goosebumps!!! Again, thank you so much!
David, that's a real shame, "gotten to the point where it's less about the music and more about the recording", that's just the opposite for me, if the music doesn't touch me in someway it's not something I would go out of my way to listen to no matter how great the recording is.
You've just brought back memories of Take 5 when it was released and the music teacher played it in school assembly! Around 1960. I recall my disappointment that my 9 year old friends were not similarly moved.
Oh my, Jazz at the pawn shop....How in the world is this sound coming from my speakers.. By God, what a record! Awesome, thank you.
I agree with 'Jazz at the Pawnshop' and the details of the recording are interesting. I don't have the vinyl but I do have the SACD and it's superb. The surround sound really sits you in the audience. No gimmicks.
You set yourself an impossible task. As it happens I already had 4 out of 5 and just downloaded the Satchmo. Thumbs up :)
Jazz at the Pawnshop is something special.
Great record, a description would help: live recording of a Swedish combo in a club called The Pawnshop. 2 mics into a 2 track deck, Revox I think. Puts you in the sonic space of the room as good as any recording ever.
Greg Singh Not completely correct, the club is called "Stampen" 😀
The LA 4 “Pavane Pour Infante Defunte”
A highly regarded jazz Direct to Disk LP.
Excellent sound and dynamics
LA4 Direct to Disc "Just Friends" also sounds marvelous
Hey New Record Day... may I ask... what system do you play these great records on? Love to see your gear.
I don't love jazz, but 4/5 of my best sounding records are jazz. LOL. So many jazz records sound so good it would be hard to choose. I'd put Bill Evans, Sunday at the Village Vanguard up there. Another good one is Melody Gardot's Live in Europe. Not jazz but Tom Waits Mule Variations is one of my go-to great sounding albums. Lots of TW, really.
”Cantante Domino” and ”At the Pawnshop” both Swedish, nice, I salute your taste.
Jazz at the pawnshop is an absolute joy to listen to.
Absolutely!
My face melted all the way off of my skull with Cantate Domino, especially silent night, dang my dude!! Thanks for the recommendation! 🙏🤯
Cantate Domino is sung bei "Oscars Motettkör" and even if the "ö" looks like a german letter (a so called "Umlaut"), actually its a Swedish Choir founded in 1962. The recording itself is a mixture of classical music from the last 3 centurys, starting from Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) up to John Rutter, a well known and famous composer born 1945 (still alive).
It always makes me chuckle a bit when someone makes a blanket statement, "I don't like jazz".
The reason why is, jazz comes in so many forms that are so disparate from each other, they actually sound like different genres.
Sure, the albums that were listed in this vid all sound like what the vast majority of people would point to as being jazz.
But then you have things like, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Brand X, Return to Forever, which can be as heavy as any metal. Or chamber jazz, like Oregon, Eberhard Weber, and so many artists on the ECM label, which can be so intricate, with a lot more interplay between musicians and not really swing. Or free jazz, which can sound chaotic at first glance, but upon further listening, can really swing, in a less than literal manner. Or the very recent genre of jazz-metal, which has jaw dropping musicianship, extreme complexity and heaviness. Bands like Panzerballet, Counter-World Experience, Exivious.
Exactly right. Same with "classical" or even "rock." When I hear someone say, "I don't like jazz," it often means, "I'm not interested in hearing something new."
So right. You have dixieland, Swing, Miles Davis, Large stage bands like Maynard Feguson and his big band. Small club ensembles. Guys like Chris Botti and Dave Koz that play a more approachable, main stream jazz. I am lucky enough to live near New York City and go to the Jazz at Lincoln Center venue where they have 3 different listening spaces. A large theater for listening to big bands, a smaller venue for more intimate performances and Dizzy's club Coca cola which is a night club setting where you can eat and drink while enjoying great jazz.
What if I said 'I don't like rap music'...I suppose any defender of 'rap music' could use the exact same argument you are using right? Who cares....
4 of these albums are jazz!? Am I missing something or is I bait?
For many people there are simply not enough hours in the day to explore the amount of music you are obviously interested in, so they wouldn't even be aware of all the 'hybrid/mixed/variations of 'Jazz' you mentioned...If they really don't like the sounds they hear on 'traditional' Jazz albums like on this list, they are unlikely to explore and/or be interested in those other 'genres' IMO...'I don't like oil paintings'- you could have a chuckle and go off on a tangent with that statement too, but it's really not hard to understand...
Have the Dave Brubeck and the Miles Davis shown here. Agreed. They might be "cliche" but they're phenomenal recordings and mores the point, I genuinely enjoy the music! A record that has been in my collection for years, largely ignored but recently re-discovered and sounds just fantastic is Johnny Guitar Watsons "A Real Mother" album. Near mint vinyl copies can be found for next to nothing but it's a really open sounding recording. A genuine surprise. You have to pick what you play after it carefully so as not to be disappointed. Give it a go. Also, honourable mention to anything from Earnest Ranglin's "Below The Bassline" album. The album itself (pretty rare now) or any of the 45 re-issues doing the rounds the last few years. Beautifully recorded...and a stone groove hehe
I agree about Johnny Guitar Watson's album, even the 45s from the album sound amazing and of course the cd version is also amazing.
I bought both the 45 & album in 76! What a bad ass record!
I ordered Jazz at the Pawnshop on SACD before this video ended.
Had never heard of it, or a couple of other records you listed. Glad I found this video
The man that doesn't like Jazz.. lol..... I had a pretty crazy system back in the day before i moved to a condo and went away from the hobby until a couple of years ago. . Anyway, I got that Louie Album at a garage sale 25 years ago and St. James Infirmary absolutely floored me. It was pure magic. I had no idea that it was so special until the needle hit the grooves! That album is what this hobby is all about.
Thanks for sharing these...a few new ideas for me. I bet Guttenberg has those too!...or was even there! Hee hee. Just gotta say i LOVE your sense of humor and that laugh. Hope the smart lady of the house is on the mend!
I actually never though about my records that way, which sounds best. But I agree Jazz at the Pawnshop is a holographic experience.
Its 2021 and why are we stu k with a 1977 as a best recordung? Pawnahop sounds rediculously good. Great last album Steve
I'd say you absolutely nailed #'s 5,3 and most importantly, 1!!! Now, which version of JATPS did you listen to? There are three. I've never heard of the German recording, but will definitely check it out! Thank you!! Where would you place Cassandra Wilson and Norah Jones, just out of curiosity?
Number 3 is ASTONISHING..... Mind blowing!!!.... Haven't heard it on Vinyl but even on CD its a trip.
Time Out in Mono is actually much more moving on my system. But yeah. The drums spacial presentation and presence of Desmond’s horn are ethereal!!! Good list buddy! And just to be “that guy” I listen on Tekton Impact Towers. 😉
Time Out played on a MONO cartridge ! Holy SH*T !!
@@jackwezesa1081 Indeed!
I love Alice in Chains, MTV unplugged. I use it to test every speaker I have ever tried in the last 20 years. Tori Amos; Under the Pink
Alice n Chains is incredible. The Tori Amos pink vinyl not great in my opinion.
Love your enthusiasm for the music!! Great take on what sounds good, I'm subbing because of this, can't wait to check out your other vids!
OK Ron your top 5 were great but I'm on the hunt for more. Is there anyway you list like numbers 6 thru 10
Up on the shelf with Kind Of Blue is Somethin' Else by Cannonball Adderley, featuring Miles Davis.
open.spotify.com/track/0AoPLgpdQvdZIU0qYByMcU?si=Ags-vQWXSIidmX59MVQVIQ
Wild Man Blues on Satchmo, A Musical Autobiography.
open.spotify.com/track/0NxF4oQN28O7gCuzyLClJ1?si=dG32CfiNR1uEfL4gCuMliQ
Cross Road Blues on Blues For The New Millennium by Marcus Roberts (The blind pianist who played with Wynton Marsalis).
open.spotify.com/track/5I504TPg11POgtjssPcKFI?si=oURyx7t5SWy6mUJiTDBTkQ
Take The A Train - Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra. (Duke Ellington)
open.spotify.com/track/4hkL4pzAuVtpS70FzS1i5i?si=SrTn00OZR9-Q61HdRqRVSw
Nature Boy on The Messenger by Kurt Elling.
Fuck yes! Not only a stunning recording but SO DAMN LISTENABLE. Totally agree, they are side by side (although KOB edges it for being a bit better on headphones than SE)
Good content thank you for your time and knowledge you've put into the audio world. I really do appreciate people who go above and beyond to try to get people into the audio world 🌎. Thanks and I have heard 3 of the 5 and they are really good for staging.
This might be long… As a Swede this is awesome. Two Swedish groups of musicians!
But the real thing for me is the Stampen recording. My mother went there as often as she could. I had to babysit my sister and mom would come home all hyped up how good Dompan (Domnerus) was, and all the other guys. Thanks for making me reminisce 🙏🏼
Thanks, Ron. I am a pretty big jazz fan, so I didn't mind at all that you picked a lot of jazz lps!
Speaking of Sachmo...Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. Ella and Louis record. So natural sounding. Buddy Rich, Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson in the rhythm section. Among the best sounding tracks in my collection.
I second that!
Ron...I accessed all your jazz recommendations thru Amazon Music and I was floored by the quality of Hi-fidelity recordings for those sessions. Just astounding! Thanks so much! By the way, whoever was the recording engineer on the Jazz at the Pawnshop session deserves special kudos for the placement of the mics! Fabulous!
What track on Cantate Domino are you using as background while reviewing it? It sounds great but i cant find it on the album.
Love the passion. Makes me want to hear them all. Question since I'm a vinyl newbie. Are these available new? And are the current pressings as good as finding originals that were well preserved?
From my understanding, some new pressings are made from digitized versions of the originals? Is that correct?
I've got in my posession a DUAL turntable that a friend gave me. It's pristine and he said it sounds really good. I'm a digital guy but I have a phone stage on my NAD and I'm curious to try out some pieces. Dark side of the moon in particular. But I don't know if I'm just getting an mp3 that someone cut on wax or something decently pressed.
Eric S. Great questions. I'm a newbie, myself, so I'm interested in the answers you receive.
@@EdwardCBurton I should probably use the Google instead of throwing the question into the ether.
I haven't even connected this vintage turntable yet. I've just been playing with the new gear and node streaming.
Im still unsure on the vinyl quality question but what I have discovered so far is that the phono stage makes a huge difference. A good one is like the dac of analog and it makes significant difference to the quality of the signal reaching your amp. The second factor being that cartridge on your tone arm. They range from a few dollars to many thousands and apparently the vinyl world is all about coloring your sound (tone). I guess.. tone arm. So much for the analog purist then? . Each cartridge is flavored and some make dramatic differences to the presentation and the overall tone, so some of these guys collect cartridges to regularly make changes to their system.
If you like Macy Grey's voice, then listen to her album called Stripped, its a jazz album recorded live to 2 track. Really great sound.
Label is Chesky records
Chesky records are THE BEST PERIOD
Audiophile or not, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is THE quintessential jazz recording of all time. Period.
gotta give it to you dude... Take 5.. ha ... i didnt know my system could do that. After all the craft of recording is by far the most important step in quality audio
You are correct, I just streamed the album over Quobuz in 24/88.2 and it's very well recorded
Thank you for this video! Becoming an "audiophile" has spun me way more into the middle of jazz--more than I ever expected. If you like Kind of Blue (as well as recordings with amazing imaging), PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE order Sketches of Spain. I personally think it blows Kind of Blue out of the water. Apparently, Miles thought so too. But enough advice from me! I took your advice and ordered the last Louis Armstrong record available on Amazon. St. James Infirmary is epic when played on my hi-res library, so I imagine I'll love it in vinyl as well. I also ordered Jazz at the Pawn Shop. Excited for that as well...
Sketches of Spain indeed! A great record to crawl into. 🍷
Satchmo album released 60 years ago today!
Thank you so much! Jazz at the Pawnshop is a revelation. Simple and perfect. 😙
I've had jazz at the pawnshop and Cantate Domino for over 40 years I reckon. Surprised to see the both here. I'll add the MFSL Steely Dan Aja and rickie Lee Jones first album...
Totally agree to Jazz at the pawnshop, and if you like that recording then I assume you are familiar with the work of Opus 3 records
I couldn't give you a top five, but the first album that blew me away for soundstage was Jean Michel Jarre Magnetic Fields on a Sony Walkman cassette player!
One of my favs as well!
So you don't like jazz. Man I love your enthusiasm.
Haha! Welcome back to “New Denial Day!”
My favorite audiophile CD is Homage to Duke by Dave Grusin. I used to take it with me (20 years ago) when buying HiFi gear... It helped me snag the legendary str da777es in 2000 - which I still enjoy ... doing that right now. Grab the cd if you can.
I would add any of a number of the ECM recordings from the mid to late 70's like Corea/Burton Crystal Silence, Keith Jarrett Koln Concert, Pat Metheny Bright Size Life, etc. Also the mastery of Rudy Van Gelder's production on full display in either April in Paris or Basie (sometimes called Atomic Mr. Basie) recordings on Roulette. Both of these recordings are by Count Basie and his orchestra.
Had to thumbs-up for ECM. Generally pretty well recorded stuff, often with a lot of space. And the cymbals. The CYMBALS!
That said, I never found PM’s ECM stuff to sound all that amazing. Seems flatter than the spacier stuff out there on ECM. I have found Ralph Towner’s recordings to generally sound very good, esp “Blue Sun” and the “Solstice” twins. KJ’s stuff on ECM varies, IMO. “My Song” sounds really good IMO. Others have not stood out as much.
Listening to audiophile recordings on vinyl is like looking at artworks through scratched spectacles.
Ears of tin
My favorite recording was and still is and it's right behind you on the wall . Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
Well done! And perfect, these albums will really tell you what you're working with gear wise. I didn't know (don't own the Satchmo) but absolutely dead on, especially JATP!!!
THX!
My #1 Muddy Water - Folk Singers (MoFi)
The audiophile experience is an odd one. I really like jazz but I regularly test systems with a combination of electronica & opera. The Deutsche Grammophon Von Karajan performance of Parsifal is a fave. The prelude should blow your socks off. I've most recently heard it with a Devialet amp hooked up to Focal Kantas and the drama of those crescendos was spine tingling. Near field listening is fun and all that but sometimes far field and rattle the ceiling is all that will scratch the itch 😉 Recreating the experiemce of live opera (Wagner at that) is fundamentally different to say listening to Miles groove at a jazz club.
The best by far is the original Verve of Getz and Gilberto "The girl from Ipnanema" album. it was recorded at 30 ips and nothing I have ever heard touches it.
I agree. I have the mono & stereo. Getz ‘s sax is amazing He sounds like he’s in my room!
Thank you! I already have and truly enjoy Kind of Blue and I just ordered the other four. A treat for my Hegel h120 and Monitor Audio Gold 200’s as well as for my ears and soul.
I insta bought Cantate Domino after watching this video. Can’t wait for Christmas to come around!
I checked out the recordings you mentioned apparently I'm a liar too on not liking jazz. My favorite recording is prolly still howard shure the fellowship of the ring
Agree 100%
You just made me order 5 records 😁
😆 happy birthday!
Thanks for bringing such knowledge! ❤❤❤ This is definitely the best audio ever!
I'm not big on jazz... now let me show you my favorite jazz albums lol. Great job man, definitely some great picks.
My two go to albums to show off a system at this point are Radiohead's "OKnotOK", and LCD Soundsystem's "This is Happening"
My favorite is my copy of Supertramp Breakfast in America
After that I have to say it would be
Al Stewart-Year of the Cat(believe it or not actually sounds pretty good)
Alan Parsons Project-Eye in the Sky
A promo only release copy of Steely Dan-Gold
And
Simply Red-Picture book
Dave Brubeck Take five always takes me to smoke filled pool hall of the early 60's with Minnesota Fats at the table. glorious
An honest question (I don't know)- other than Satchmo, are there any vocals on any of the other 4 albums?? If not, that would be my criticism of this list....
Fair point! There are vocals on Cantate Domino
Dave Grusin Discovered Again direct-to-disc is dynamic and smooth as butter. I have three copies on vinyl and one CD.
Another Sheffield Lab release - Confederation -- is bluegrass direct-to-disc that always makes me smile and the acoustic instruments are beautifully presented.
I heard Jazz @ Pawnshop many years ago in the audio stores. It may have sounded great, but the music didn't draw me in.