My 20 best SOUNDING album's, (all formats)

[Kuoppis]

Downloading was at bit of a mess, but the gentleman from Sound Liaison was very helpful. The music sounds great in DSD though.

But for me this is a little bit of a record for format sake, not quite the most sophisticated blues interpretation as I find. Good listening experience nevertheless.


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[Mas]

Re: New Carmen Gomes album?

I absolutely love it.
The musicians are indeed clearly enjoying this straightforward material. It is the blues, simple and to the point but with finesse. Best upright bass sound and drum sound since.....

It has been released and it is fantastic. Great songs, Carmen Gomes and band clearly enjoys playing these classic songs and the sound is phenomenal.

5$ discount on all formats at http://www.soundliaison.com/

 

[Golum]

Thanks to all contributors in this topic! If I think beside the usual stuff about hardware in this hobby, getting to experience new music via you guys is actually the most important thing for me from this hobby.

Thanks again!

 

[Jose]

Artist: Eddie Palmieri CD Title: Vortex....Excellent Reedbook CD

 

[A.S.]

Re: New Carmen Gomes album?

It has been released and it is fantastic. Great songs, Carmen Gomes and band clearly enjoys playing these classic songs and the sound is phenomenal.

5$ discount on all formats at http://www.soundliaison.com/

I absolutely love it.
The musicians are indeed clearly enjoying this straightforward material. It is the blues, simple and to the point but with finesse. Best upright bass sound and drum sound since.....

since......1959. The album has such an old school feel in spite of being a hyper modern DXD download. Maybe it is because of the very simple setup.

 

[johndoe21ro]

So these are one of my best sounding albums (and favorite music):

1. Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde (F. Wunderlich, C. Ludwig - O. Klemperer) (Esoteric 2010) - DSD

2. Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition. A Night on the Bald Mountain (F. Reiner, CSO) (RCA Living Stereo 2004) - DSD

3. Rimsky Korsakov - Scheherazade. Stravinsky - Song of the Nightingale (F. Reiner, CSO) (RCA Living Stereo 2006) - DSD

4. Stravinsky - Rite of Spring. Firebird Suite (Budapest Festival Orchestra, I. Fischer) (Channel Classics 2012) - DSD

5. R. Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra. Ein Heldenleben (F. Reiner, CSO) (RCA Living Stereo) - DSD

6. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (Columbia SACD Remaster 2003) - DSD

7. Peter Erskine, Marty Krystall, Buell Neidlinger - Aurora (Denon 1989) - PCM

8. Pete Alderton - Cover My Blues (Ozella Music) - PCM

9. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out (Analogue Productions 2012) - DSD

10. R. Strauss - Scenes from 'Salome' & 'Elektra' (I. Borkh, F. Reiner, CSO) (RCA Living Stereo) - DSD

11. Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else (Analogue Productions 2009) - DSD

12. Beethoven. Bruch - Violin Concertos (A. Grumiaux, Sir Colin Davis, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/H. Wallberg, Philharmonia Orchestra) (Pentatone 2006) - DSD

13. Bernstein Conducts Copland (L. Bernstein, NYP) (Sony Classical 2003) - DSD

14. Ambrose Akinmusire - When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note 2011) - PCM

15. Ken Peplowski Quartet - When You Wish Upon a Star (Venus Records 2007) - PCM

16. Kenny Barron Trio - Minor Blues (Venus Records 2009) - PCM

17. Kent Poon - Audiophile Jazz Prologue III - PCM

18. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Ella & Louis Again (Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab 1995) - PCM

19. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Porgy & Bess (Verve) - PCM

20. Eiji Oue & The Minnesota Orchestra - Exotic Dances from the Opera (Reference Recordings 2009) - DSD

 

[johndoe21ro]

And more...

21. Jascha Heifetz - Double Concertos (Bach, Mozart, Brahms) (RCA Living Stereo 2006) - DSD

22. Grant Green - Idle Moments (Analogue Productions 2010) - DSD

23. Holst - The Planets. John Williams - Star Wars (Z. Mehta, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra) (Decca 2012) - DSD

24. Vlatko Stefanovski & Miroslav Tadic - Treta Majka (Scardona 2004) - PCM

25. Kings of Strings - First Step (Sokoj 2012) - PCM
26. Al di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucia - Friday Night in San Francisco (Philips 1981) - PCM

27. Wagner - Der Ring Des Nibelungen (Sir Georg Solti, VPO) (Decca 1997/2012) - PCM

28. Mahler - The Symphonies (R. Chailly, RCO, RSO Berlin) (Decca 2005) - PCM

29. Mahler - Symphony No.1 'Titan' (Manfred Honeck, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) (Exton) - PCM

30. Mahler - Symphony No.6 (Ivan Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra) (Channel Classics) - DSD

31. Mahler - Symphony No.5 (Markus Stenz, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra) (Oehms Classics) - PCM

32. Mahler - Symphony No.1 'Titan' (Ivan Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra) (Channel Classics) - DSD

33. Dvorak - Symphony No.9 'From the New World' (Leonard Bernstein, NYP) (Sony Classical 1999) - DSD

34. Jimmy Cobb Quartet - Jazz in the Key of Blue (Chesky Records 2009) - DSD

35. Vangelis - 1492: Conquest of Paradise (Atlantic 2008) - PCM

36. John Barry - Dances With Wolves (Sony Classical 2000) - DSD

37. Carlos Heredia - Gypsy Flamenco (Chesky 1996) - DSD

38. Reference Recordings 30th Anniversary Sampler (Reference Recordings 2006) - PCM

39. Chet Baker & Bill Evans - The Complete Legendary Sessions (American Jazz Classics 2010) - PCM

40. Buika - Nina de fuego (WEA 2008) - PCM

 

[johndoe21ro]

And more...

41. Albert King With Stevie Ray Vaughan ‎– In Session (Stax 2003) - DSD

42. Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue (Analogue Productions 2010) - DSD

43. Dexter Gordon - A Swingin' Affair (Blue Note) - PCM

44. Theo Croker - Afro Physicist (OKeh/Sony Masterworks 2014) - PCM

45. Shostakovich - Symphony No.10 (V. Petrenko, Royal Liverpool PO) (Naxos 2010) - PCM

46. Vladimir Vysotsky (Le Chant Du Monde/Omagatoki Japan Reissue 1988) - PCM

47. Vladimir Horowitz - Chopin, Schumann, Rachmaninov & Liszt (Sony Classical 1999) - DSD

48. Sanda Weigl - Gypsy in a Tree (Barbes Records 2010) - PCM

49. Petra Magoni & Ferruccio Spinetti - Musica nuda (BHM 2007) - PCM

50. Petra Magoni & Ferruccio Spinetti - Musica nuda 2 (Radio Fandango 2006) - PCM

51. Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez (P. Romero). Concierto Andaluz (Los Romeros) (Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner) (Philips 2006) - PCM

52. Berg, Stravinsky - Violin Concertos (I. Perlman, S. Ozawa, BSO) (Deutsche Grammophon 1996) - PCM

53. Vivaldi: Heroes - Opera Arias (Jean Christophe Spinosi, Ensemble Matheus) (Erato 2007) - PCM

54. Lamenti (Emmanuelle Haïm, Natalie Dessay, Patrizia Ciofi, Véronique Gens, Joyce DiDonato, Philippe Jaroussky, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Topi Lehtipuu, Rolando Villazon, Laurent Naouri, Le Concert d`Astrée, Christopher Purves) (Erato 2008) - PCM

55. Beethoven - Eroica Variations. Piano Sonatas Nos. 21&23 (E. Gilels) (Deutsche Grammophon-Esoteric) - DSD

56. Rachmaninov - The Piano Concertos. Paganini Rhapsody (Stephen Hough, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton) (Hyperion 2004) - DSD

57. Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps (Esa-Pekka Salonen, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra) (Deutsche Grammophon 2006) - DSD

58. Shostakovich - Symphony No.1. Cello Concerto (Mstislav Rostropovich, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy) (Sony Classical Great Performances 2006) - PCM

59. Jan Lundgren, Paolo Fresu & Richard Galliano - Mare Nostrum (Rolf Liebermann - Studio Hamburg 2014) - PCM

60. Virginia Zeani - Operatic Recital (Decca 2014) - PCM

 

[johndoe21ro]

And more...

61. Dvorak - Symphony No.9 'From the New World' (N. Harnoncourt, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra) (Teldec 2000) - PCM

62. Cecile McLorin Salvant - WomanChild (Mack Avenue 2013) - PCM

63. Portico Quartet - Knee-Deep in the North Sea (Real World/B&W Society of Sound 2007) - PCM

64. Bill Evans - Some Other Time: The Lost Session From the Black Forest (Resonance Records 2016) - DSD

65. Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep (Nonesuch Records 2010) - PCM

66. Beethoven - Triple Concerto (D. Oistrakh, M. Rostropovich, S. Richter, Berliner Philharmoniker, H. von Karajan) (EMI Classics/Warner Classics 2012) - PCM

Sorry guys! I think I got carried away... I've reached no.66 and there are plenty more... Not all of them are sonically amazing but a hi-end system can do wonders with these gems...

 

[A.S.]

Thanks John, great list! I will go explore

 

[A.S.]

last chance of a 5$ disscount.

for those interested, the introduction sale of the album ends this weekend.
Seems that Nagra used the tape version to demonstrate their new equipment on the Munich 2017 audio show.

It has been released and it is fantastic. Great songs, Carmen Gomes and band clearly enjoys playing these classic songs and the sound is phenomenal.

5$ discount on all formats at http://www.soundliaison.com/

I absolutely love it.
The musicians are indeed clearly enjoying this straightforward material. It is the blues, simple and to the point but with finesse. Best upright bass sound and drum sound since.....

since......1959. The album has such an old school feel in spite of being a hyper modern DXD download. Maybe it is because of the very simple setup.

 

[A.S.]

Hi Johndoe
I see you have Dexter Gordon, a swingin' affair, which version do you have, and do you find the SQ better or similar to the album ''Go'' recorded 2 days earlier?

 

[Mas]

Artist: Eddie Palmieri CD Title: Vortex....Excellent Reedbook CD

Good stuff! Thank you!

 

[A.S.]

Thanks excellent CD!

 

[Mas]

The Sound Liaison files are on sale this week, 33% off.
AudioSteam.com recommends the label on their list of lovely recordings:

Anything from Sound Liaison
Sound Liaison is a small audiophile type record company from the Netherlands. They differ from many audiophile labels as they produce music that you will want to listen to over and over again for the quality of the music and the performances rather than just for the sound quality. Don't get me wrong, the entire Sound Liaison catalogue, which is very small as they are a new label, features excellent sound. My favorites are Andre Heuvelman's After Silence featuring classical music, Carmen Gomes Inc.'s A Thousand Shades of Blue and Little Blue both of which feature music more in the pop and standards vein and two jazz recordings, Impromptu featuring Tony Overwater and Bert van den Brink on piano and bass and The Witner's Trio's En Azul which features some very creative arrangements of some jazz standards.

 

[A.S.]

Re: New Carmen Gomes album?

for those interested, the introduction sale of the album ends this weekend.
Seems that Nagra used the tape version to demonstrate their new equipment on the Munich 2017 audio show.

It has been released and it is fantastic. Great songs, Carmen Gomes and band clearly enjoys playing these classic songs and the sound is phenomenal.

5$ discount on all formats at http://www.soundliaison.com/

I absolutely love it.
The musicians are indeed clearly enjoying this straightforward material. It is the blues, simple and to the point but with finesse. Best upright bass sound and drum sound since.....

The 2nd album in the new DXD serie has just been released; Paul Berner Band playing Beatles songs. Highly recommended.

https://www.soundliaison.com/studio-showcase-series/312-paul-berner-band-this-bird-has-flown

 

[Hounddog]

Love it. Sonically stunning.


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[Mas]

Love it. Sonically stunning.


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+2
''This Bird has flown'' is a beauty. The 2 guitar players are fantastic and what a gorgeous bass sound.
And it is amazing how well the video they uploaded to youtube sounds. One should think that this kind of hi-res files with very little or no compression would not translate so well to the limited sonic requirements of youtube. It is no comparison to the real thing but still.
Have they made a special mastering for youtube?

 

[Hounddog]

I didn’t know about the video. Thanks. I have everything from soundliaison -even when the content isn’t my cup of tea, it’s so well recorded that it’s worth having in the collection.


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[Mas]

Hey HoundDog with your name I guess the ''Road to Memphis'' download is your favorite Sound Liaison download