Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: nyu notesfiles V1.1 4/1/84; site rocksvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!dave From: dave@rocksvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: CD recommendations Message-ID: <2000005@rocksvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 18:29:00 EDT Article-I.D.: rocksvax.2000005 Posted: Mon Oct 1 18:29:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 05:37:12 EDT References: <3195@ulysses.UUCP> Lines: 32 Nf-ID: #R:ulysses:-319500:rocksvax:2000005:000:1650 Nf-From: rocksvax!dave Oct 1 18:29:00 1984 My CD recommendation list is as follows: Donald Fagen "Nightfly" - quiet and well recorded. I used this one when A/Bing CD machines when I could. "New Frontier" sounded bad on the Hitachi machine, 'sandy' sounding if you will. [digital mastered] Kitaro - "Kai" (sp?) the whole thing is in Japanese so I am in the dark as how to spell it. "Silk Road" is also very good but not digilly mastered. This is 100% synthesizer music much like a Japanese sound to Synergy. I don't know what Japanese currency exchanges to but the Japanese price printed on the label was 3500 Yen. [digital master] The Who "It's Hard" - analog master but great sound, try "Emminence Front". [analog master] Michel Jarre "Magnetic Fields" or "Oxygene" - haven't heard this on my Yamaha, can't find it in Rochester, but sounded great on resonex!tggsu's machine. These are sythesizer based. [? master] Windom Hills '82 Sampler CD - great miking, excellent selections mild Jazz orientation. If you like guitar this is one you should get. You will not cry "lack of presence" with this disk. The only fault I can say about it is that it is analog mastered, and you can hear a little hiss when you crank up the volume. It is so good you soon forget about the little bit of noise. I hear that the newer Windom Hills materials are being digitally mastered, can't wait to try some! [analog master] Duran Duran "Rio" is great also [digital master] I hope that helps someone who is trying to listen to some machines. BTW, the Peter Gabriel CD mentioned in the parent article sounded great in one of the stereo shops I went to.