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I'm going to try some hi-rez albums. I listen to rock, folk and blues. Have you listened to anything that has exception sound quality that you would recommend, I would consider almost any genre as long it is exceptional performance and sound quality. I was looking on HD tracks website is that the best place? Thanks.
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[quote].......''Carmen Gomes has won many awards in the Netherlands and surrounding areas. Like so many new European singers, she sings in English -- excellent English, I might add. She's formed a group called Carmen Gomes Inc., with Folker Tettero on guitar, Peter Bjørnild on double bass and Marcel van Engelen on drums. Her style is bluesy and intimate with a sexy voice that's sweet as dark tupelo honey, and her interpretations are unerring. The musicians play to her and to each other and the ensemble is so tight that the four musicians breathe and move as one. There are some standards on the set that knocked me over with their fresh approach. Any singer can misplace a few accents and rhythms and come up with something that's original, but perhaps also uneasy and a little strange. Not Gomes, who has taken the songs to their bones and then restructured them to suit her style. Thus "Fever" doesn't sound like a cover of Peggy Lee; it sounds like a brand new take on a familiar song. You emerge from hearing it not thinking it's better or lesser than Lee's version, but that it's a valid new interpretation that could have come first.
The same approach works on "Angel Eyes", "You Don't Know What Love Is" and "I'm on Fire". Most of the rest, including the title song, "Oblivion", "Time Will Tell", "Gasoa Blue", and "The Sea" are Gomes originals that fit right in with the standards. The recording achieves exactly what Bjørnild set out as his goal. It can provide the best seat in your listening room. Go to the Sound Liaison site listen to a few samples, download an album and see if you don't agree that this intimate effort is one of the best and best-sounding jazz vocal albums to come along in many a day. By the way, the small audience applauds enthusiastically enough after the last chords of a song die away, but the attendees never interrupt or make themselves known while a song is going on. No doubt they were completely mesmerized into silence, as was I.
Be sure to listen to: On "Dock of the Bay", Gomes creates a languid, bluesy version that is a little bit reminiscent of Bobbie Gentry while still coming across as quite original. It'll cast a spell over you"........
Rad Bennet[/qoute]
And since it is Easter try this or just one tune, maybe it is not really your kind of music, but track 53 ,Aria: Erbarme dich, mein Gott, is the most beautiful song ever written.
Review by Scott Yanow
The six-CD box set Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note fully documents three nights (six complete sets from June 3-5, 1994) by his trio with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette. Never mind that this same group has already had ten separate releases since 1983; this box is still well worth getting. The repertoire emphasizes (but is not exclusively) standards, with such songs as "In Your Own Sweet Way," "Now's the Time," "Oleo," "Days of Wine and Roses," and "My Romance" given colorful and at times surprising explorations. Some of the selections are quite lengthy (including a 26-and-a-half-minute version of "Autumn Leaves") and Jarrett's occasional originals are quite welcome; his 28-and-a-half-minute "Desert Sun" reminds one of the pianist's fully improvised Solo Concerts of the 1970s. Throughout the three nights at the Blue Note, the interplay among the musicians is consistently outstanding. Those listeners concerned about Jarrett's tendency to "sing along" with his piano have little to fear for, other than occasional shouts and sighs, he wisely lets his piano do the talking.
This one sounds exceptionally good, and is also great piece of music.
quote[Torn was inspired partly by the tragic marriage of a close friend coming to an end and a strong artistic need for getting back to basics, The Blues. In a sense it is a concept album. The 9 songs follow each other in a logical order telling the story of a relationship falling apart. ''Come on in My Kitchen'' representing the initial attraction and the ''Thrill is Gone'' the end of love.
Carmen Gomes
The Torn album and Carmen Gomes has received white spread critical acclaim:
Her warm, enormously talented and controlled voice is completely unique and she knows how to get pure emotion across to the listener ...
The sound of the album is exemplary with dynamics of an addictive quality......the drums are practically visual and one feels as if one could reach out and and actually touch the singer.
Eric de Boer - Hifi.nl
Gomes Sings “You better come on into my kitchen, ‘cause it’s going to be raining outdoors” and what a wondrous musical kitchen she possesses.
The utensils are the thoughtfully played musical notes. The chef is Carmen herself, serving a dream-like melodic delicacy. We at Adore Jazz, play the music from Gomes’ new CD “Torn” with great joy.
Guy Zinger - Reviewer & Writer, All About Jazz
Station Programming Manager; Adore Jazz on 1 FM
Gomes has a bluesy voice, that balances gracefully between sensual surrender and control.
E. van den Berg - De Volkskrant]
I've got several live downloads that sound excellent. You can find downloads in the lossless section that range from wav quality to better.
Give me rhythm or give me death!
Widespread Panic's "Don't Tell The Band" sounds excellent to these ears...
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I have all of their DVD-Audio discs, good stuff. The Who's Tommy and Quadrophenia are also worth having...
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Any recording by Analogue Productions is likely to have extremely good SQ. I purchase mine from Acoustic Sounds.
Len
Most Grateful Dead albums don't sound so great. This one is very good!
Grateful Dead, American Beauty
American Beauty and WD sounded good on the HDCD CDs, too...
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Good to know, thank you.
I don't own many of their CD's but the ones that I do own, don't sound so great. I was very pleased with the American Beauty 'hi-res' download and I'll get Workingman's Dead next, on your recommendation.
I managed to see them live a couple times at Shoreline Amphitheatre in 'Silicon Valley', south of San Francisco. This was back in the mid 1990's.
Ping AA member LWR, he is a font of knowledge. And he should be - IIRC, GD played at his 2nd wedding. And Crosby, Still, and Nash at his first!
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Incredible! Yes, I need more GD but it has to sound decent. Thanks. ;-)
hi abe, FWIW- my best DEAD sound is Truckin' Up To Buffalo on DVD pcm stereo through Oppo 103 using Esoteric KO7 as dac. For redbook cd I highly recommend "Dead Set" 2-disc.
In Absentia or Stupid Dream. In Absentia is a bit harder edged, Stupid Dream has some wonderful, melodious tunes...Also, most of the REM catalog has been done via DVD-Audio, they sound great.
I also greatly enjoy the ELP albums that were recently done by Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree...
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"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
Jen Chapin "reVisions" which are covers of Stevie Wonder songs in a unique jazz trio format and have a verifiable provenance of a hi-rez master. I stumbled across this on the Audiogon Sampler "Wake Up Your Ears" download and was intrigued enough to buy the 96/24 download at HDTracks. I'm glad I did. Also Bettye LaVette "Thankful N Thoughtful" soulful covers of songs by an eclectic group of artists on ANTI records, HDTracks. Finally, Counting Crows "august and Everything After in a DSD download converted to 96/24 in Jriver for playback is a great example of rock from an analog master in superb sound, imo.
For classical try the 2L.no website
I prefer the Acoustic Sound download site to HD Tracks because I am more confident in the provenance of the masters they use to make the download files. The files are described more clearly as to the mastering used. Was it a analog master, a hi-res digital file, a cd quality file (why bother)?
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead
'Has anyone bought a 'hi-rez' download and comparing it to a cd rip found the sound quality any better'?
Downloads sound pretty good these days. So do cd's.
'Highway 61 Revisited' is $5.99 on cd at Amazon.
"The problem with quotes from the internet is that many of them just are just made up."
-Abraham Lincoln
To me high rez is really about the final sound, not necessarily sampling freq and bit depth. I agree that as good as some CDs have been sounding lately, used yet for under 10 bucks on amazon, why bother coughing up 30 bucks for incremental improvements? Especially when the original master tapes sometimes are somewhat compromised in the first place.
I think a bigger issue is the actual resolution of the download. Was the file from the same 44/16 res master as the CD and upsampled? This is my biggest issue with HDTracks, one can't verify the resolution of the master used to make the file you download and HDTracks is less than forthcoming with that info. Other sites, 2L for example are very clear about the resolution of the recording and the file you download.
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Linn studio Master tracks.
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