Album of the Evening

[Musicophile]

In-flight entertainment of the evening. 

[semente]

[semente]

[rickca]

I love Haydn ... too many years practising piano and studying music theory for me to ever find it boring.  Very well executed.

 

[Musicophile]

 

I was a bit surprised to see this old Cassandra Wilson album pop up under nouveautés @ Qobuz, but then I realized it‘s a high res remaster. Given that this is one of my favorite Wilson albums, and very well recorded, at €10.99 for the 24/96 it didn’t take long to get my credit card out.

 

I haven’t compared to my CD rip yet, and will do a Musiscope check later, but it sounds very nice.

[Mayfair]

2 hours ago, Musicophile said:

 

I was a bit surprised to see this old Cassandra Wilson album pop up under nouveautés @ Qobuz, but then I realized it‘s a high res remaster. Given that this is one of my favorite Wilson albums, and very well recorded, at €10.99 for the 24/96 it didn’t take long to get my credit card out.

 

I haven’t compared to my CD rip yet, and will do a Musiscope check later, but it sounds very nice.

Thanks for the tip - I also have the CD.  According to JRiver Audio Analysis, compared to the CD the 24/96 appears to be a different mastering and has much wider dynamics.  To me it sounds significantly better.

 

Here's the JRMC audio analysis comparative data

 

CD: Fragile (11 dB); Sleight of Time (10 dB); I Want More (9 dB); If Loving You Is Wrong (10 dB); Lay Lady Lay (9 dB); Crazy (12 dB); What Is It (10 dB); Heaven Knows (11 dB); Honey Bee (10 dB); Broken Drum (11 dB); On This Train (11 dB); Throw It Away (12db)

 

24/96: Fragile (14 dB); Sleight of Time (14 dB); I Want More (13 dB); If Loving You Is Wrong (15 dB); Lay Lady Lay (15 dB); Crazy (14 dB); What Is It (15 dB); Heaven Knows (13 dB); Honey Bee (14 dB); Broken Drum (14 dB); On This Train (15 dB); Throw It Away (13 dB)

 

The 24/96 also has two bonus tracks: Allow Me (14 dB) and Once In A Blue Moon (13 dB).

 

For me, one of the times when Hi-Res is worth it, because I think it's audibly better (but only because of better mastering).  

[Musicophile]

13 minutes ago, Mayfair said:

Thanks for the tip - I also have the CD.  According to JRiver Audio Analysis, compared to the CD the 24/96 appears to be a different mastering and has much wider dynamics.  To me it sounds significantly better.

Indeed it is excellent. Turns out it is a completely remaster from the original analog tapes:

 

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/cassandra-wilson-glamoured-album/

[rando]

More from this Haydn Quartet cycle.    

 

[EuroChamp]

45 minutes ago, Mayfair said:

Thanks for the tip - I also have the CD.  According to JRiver Audio Analysis, compared to the CD the 24/96 appears to be a different mastering and has much wider dynamics.  To me it sounds significantly better.

 

Here's the JRMC audio analysis comparative data

 

CD: Fragile (11 dB); Sleight of Time (10 dB); I Want More (9 dB); If Loving You Is Wrong (10 dB); Lay Lady Lay (9 dB); Crazy (12 dB); What Is It (10 dB); Heaven Knows (11 dB); Honey Bee (10 dB); Broken Drum (11 dB); On This Train (11 dB); Throw It Away (12db)

 

24/96: Fragile (14 dB); Sleight of Time (14 dB); I Want More (13 dB); If Loving You Is Wrong (15 dB); Lay Lady Lay (15 dB); Crazy (14 dB); What Is It (15 dB); Heaven Knows (13 dB); Honey Bee (14 dB); Broken Drum (14 dB); On This Train (15 dB); Throw It Away (13 dB)

 

The 24/96 also has two bonus tracks: Allow Me (14 dB) and Once In A Blue Moon (13 dB).

 

For me, one of the times when Hi-Res is worth it, because I think it's audibly better (but only because of better mastering).  

 

I discovered the new remaster on Qobuz too, some days ago. When it turned out, it is a new (great) remaster, I immediately uploaded the DR-logfile to the dynamic range database:

http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/162578

On top of excellent dynamic, SQ is very good.

[rvb]

[Paul R]

I usually don't like much rap or rap inspired music, but un- in the vernacular - This lady (Tarriona "Tank" Ball)  has got some serious ratchet in her!

I got so into the album, I forgot to listen critically.   

 

[HIFI]

[rvb]

[sphinxsix]

I rarely reach for r'n'b but this IMO is something FRESH!

 

[Hugo9000]

George Frideric Handel

Streams of Pleasure

Karina Gauvin and Marie-Nicole Lemieux

Alan Curtis/Il Complesso Barocco

 

[semente]

 

[AMR/iFi audio]

As Steve Hughes put it, Enya's music is a silence coloured in. But enjoyable one.

 

 

[Melvin]

Takes me back ..

 

[sphinxsix]

[Hugo9000]

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 5

Christian Lindberg/Arctic Philharmonic

 

First time listening to this symphony in over 30 years haha!  I always judge my Tchaikovsky symphony cycle recordings by the 4th and 6th, so this has been sitting unheard since I purchased this 2-SACD set a while back.  Odd how my brain anticipates each phrase before it comes, after so many years away from this music.  Actually, I just remembered that the last time I listened to this symphony was in autumn of 1987, as a freshman in college, the first time I heard KEF loudspeakers.  It was the only recording the dealer had of music I was familiar with.  After that, I always brought my own CDs when auditioning equipment!  Fittingly, I am listening on my KEF LS50s today haha!  The first speakers were the KEF Reference 102.  The next day, I went back with a Leontyne Price CD to play on the Reference 107--what an incredible experience that was!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[mkrzych]

Some of my findings last time related to jazz. IMHO, those are very good and underrated. Check them out.

 

[mkrzych]

On 5/19/2019 at 6:51 PM, Musicophile said:

 

I was a bit surprised to see this old Cassandra Wilson album pop up under nouveautés @ Qobuz, but then I realized it‘s a high res remaster. Given that this is one of my favorite Wilson albums, and very well recorded, at €10.99 for the 24/96 it didn’t take long to get my credit card out.

 

I haven’t compared to my CD rip yet, and will do a Musiscope check later, but it sounds very nice.

 

Yes, I tried several of her records, but this one is also my favorite and this remaster sounds excellent! 

[Melvin]

A lovely morning listen ..

 

[biosailor]

4 hours ago, Melvin said:

A lovely morning listen ..

 

 

Just as much as a good late night listen! What a wonderful classic!

[biosailor]