Thiel Owners

hi Guys,   thanks for playing.   this is tough as i could have easily listed 50.  Half my collection is classical but i am going to focus on pop and rock since i play it more often when trying out new stuff.  Great list Arvin as i like all those, but mine are on silver discs as my trusty 37 year old Oracle/SME/Clearaudio does not get a lot of use.  Jafant:  which recording of DOFP as i never heard one sound great though i have always loved that album?
1.  James McMurtry-too long in the wasteland.  great songs and great recording.  the last cut is a total hoot and a real good test of a system's ability to place lots of vocals in space.
2.  Kim Ritchey-Rise.  she is such a great but quiet artist.
3. Yello-One Second:  totally fun.  the first cut alone makes it worth having.

4.  Mark Knopfler-Sailing to Philadelphia.   his duet with James Taylor is so great. 

5.  Speaking of JT.  Hourglass (preferably in SACD if you can find it).  cut 4 will bring down the pictures on the wall if you can reproduce what is going on there.

Very tough to narrow down. On my Thiel CS3.6/tubes home system I prefer to listen to albums that combine artists that I like to see live but add the magic of good studio engineering. With Tidal, it sure is easy to check out some of the previous recommendations.

Eagles- Long Road Out Of Eden (check out cut 9 "Fast Company")
Shelby Lynne- I Am Shelby Lynne (check out cut 3 "Life is Bad")
Martin Sexton- The American (check out cut 7 "Where It Begins")
The Wailin' Jennys- 40 Days (check out cover song cut 7 "Old Man")
Robert Plant, Alison Krauss- Raising Sand (Check out cut 2 "Killing the Blues")

Here is the link to the Tidal playlist:
https://tidal.com/playlist/fa778f01-dbaa-487e-98c9-958b412bf346

Thumbs up on the Kim Richey album. I have seen her live several times and love the Rise album.

thanks Jon.  i am familiar with a lot of that but not Martin Sexton and the Jennys.  most of my cds are really good sounding as i give them away if they are crappy, even if i like the music.  really like Deep Purple but their Burn cd was so badly done.  same with almost all the Rush stuff.  cannot listen to it. 

i am going to cheat and add my new reference cd and that is Tango in the Night by Fleetwood Mac.  make sure to get the remastered version. wowie zowie.  

Kim Richey is great and have a number of her cds.  if you like her check out Patty Larkin who has a number of really great cds.

Good to see you - jonandfamilynice list and yes, it was a tough decision to come up with (5) albums.Happy Listening!

Nice list - ronkentI concur about "Tango in the Night" being an excellent CD. I will have to check out the remaster, as I own, the original 80's CD.  What year is the remaster?
Happy Listening!