What are you listening to tonight ?

A good album. Decent music and sounds pretty good too! Lots of dynamics and spaciousness.

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Mas said:
Odelion
Northern Lights

Superb DXD recording with mega talented singer song writer Odelion.
And the SQ is top notch SOUND LIAISON quality. Highly recommended. There is only a few days left of the introduction sale; Northern Lights - Odelion
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Great album and VERY impressive soundstage indeed.
No wonder when Dutch Master Frans De Rond is the engineer;
We love when we are able to record musicians playing together without headphones. When not 'separated' by headphones musicians interact much more as they would do in a concert situation,
creating their own musical balance which makes the need for compression to control levels unnecessary and since everybody is in the same room, the boxed sound which is so common in many modern recordings is absent. Instead the beautiful sound of studio 2 helps 'glue' the sound of the recording. When creating the sound stage, we spent a great amount of time getting the balance of the little orchestra as optimal as possible using the ambient microphone stereo pair placed in the 'sweet spot' in studio 2, before adding the spot microphones.We have created a sound field that is intimate but also with enough depth to have a visual representation of the instruments.
The idea is to let the melodic part of each instrument stand out yet never overshadow the whole. The benefit of this approach is that you can visualize the ensemble in front of you; trombones and French horn left, voice in the middle with the piano placed slightly further to the back and the strings to the right.
This is NOT the commercial radio friendly approach, with the instruments piled on top of each other straight down the middle.
In a sense we are old fashioned, maybe we listened to too many old jazz recordings, but on the other hand as the great Louis Armstrong said; "The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the backyard on a hot night or something said long ago".

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After preceding Webster for Lovers and Diana Krall, here’s some music with balls and testosterone for a change.

Motörhead/ Ace of Spades.
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Shadowfax said:
Currently enjoying some Allman-Betts Band

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Its pretty cool that the sons are following their dads. The Allman Betts Band includes Devon Allman & Duane Betts on guitars and vocals, Berry Oakley Jr. on bass. If you get a chance to see them live, they can rock like their dads but have their own sound as to not mimic their parents. .
 
CPP said:
Its pretty cool that the sons are following their dads. The Allman Betts Band includes Devon Allman & Duane Betts on guitars and vocals, Berry Oakley Jr. on bass. If you get a chance to see them live, they can rock like their dads but have their own sound as to not mimic their parents. .
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I have been an Allman Bros fan since I was 5. My older brothers always had some on. My mother used to get crazy with the solo in Elizabeth Reed....Can't he play any other notes? she would holler up the steps.

Anyway, these guys are terrific and I have been keeping my eyes open for a local show but obviously not happening now.


I like what Dweezle did for Frank too.
 
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