Great Recordings, Sonically Speaking - and Why.


I think many of us would accept that artists such as Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, and Dire Straits have consistently put out music that was at least originally recorded to a high technical standard. [I'm not too sure what the loudness wars may have done to subsequent reissues, but even so, the tone and timbre thankfully tends to remain intact.]

However there must be plenty of lesser known recordings out there that could be said to be of a high sonic standard.

One such recording that I like to put on in the background whilst I'm doing other things is a piano recording that features wonderfully lush timbre and some delightful tunes.

This one is The Disney Piano Collection by Hirohashi Makiko and to me it makes a lot of other piano recordings sound a little washed out.
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Actually, the musical timbre we speak of on here is in fact often pronounced ’tam’ber. 
Yes @thecarpathian, and correctly so. It is also often mis-pronounced tim-ber by the musically uneducated (no offense intended) . Timber! is what you yell when a tree has been felled. ;-)
Another "CD"...

Joe Jackson live in NY (going by memory on this one as to the correct title).

As far as incredible/exceptional recordings go I only have them on vinyl, though I doubt that many here would be interested in listening to tribal/cerimonial music recorded live via battery powered Nagra tape decks.

DeKay
Why is timbre pronounced tamber?The fact that timbre comes from French influences its pronunciation: it is often pronounced \TAM-ber\ and, with a more French-influenced second syllable, \TAM-bruh\. ... In French, timbre became used for bells that were shaped like drums and usually were fixed and struck with a hammer, like the bells of a carillon.
If it’s a great sounding recording you want, just about any direct-to-disc LP absolutely slaughters any and all recordings ever made with a tape recorder. They possess an immediacy and visceral transient "snap" not heard in recordings made by any and all other means, sounding MUCH more like live music.

If you can get your hands on a good reel-to-reel tape recorder and a pair of condenser mics, you can make recordings of live music that will surprise you with their sonic superiority to most your LP’s and CD’s.