Best Recording To Demo Your System

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Dire Straits - Dire Straits

- Love over Gold

- Making Movies

 

Bob Dylan - Everything is Broken (track of Oh Mercy)

 

Jeff Buckley - Grace

 

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

 

Keb 'Mo' - Keb 'Mo'

 

Diana Krall - Quiet Nights

 

etc etc etc

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For a couple of decades now, "Man in the Long Black Coat" from Oh Mercy has been a track I've used to demo systems. As the track opens, the sound of chirping crickets gradually becomes rhythmic and turns into the rhythm of the beginning of the song (the lyrics of which begin, "Crickets are chirping...."). How smoothly that happens (does the chirping "foretell" the rhythm of the song's intro - good - or does the rhythm of the music come out of a more or less random bunch of chirping crickets - bad) says something about the ability of a system to do microdynamics well.

 

Hi Jud,

 

I have refound Dylan and now have 20 of his albums - can't get over his effortless command of the English language, his story telling ability and the way he puts it all together with wonderful music.

 

His greatest attribute IMO is his ability to re invent himself and to continue to be relevant. His songs are timelessness. A true original talent.

 

I love our hobby.

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Donald Fagen, "The Nightfly".

 

Plenty of good 'demo' material on this album. (The music is agreeable, too.)

 

+1

 

For those who don't know, Donald was a founding member of Steely Dan.

 

I mention this because my 15 year old son recently downloaded "I.G.Y" from iTunes at 256kps. I asked him why he did this as I already had a lossless CD quality ripped on my hard drive. He told me I couldn't have as it was a new song just released.

 

I explained I had purchased it originally as an LP early 80's and again as a CD mid 90's and that is was not in fact a new song. (He was born 1999).

 

The point is this album is that good that it is timeless and appeals to all ages.