I I have a lot of CDs and several SACDs,, and the SQ I hear from them ranges from poor to "I like it" to mind blowingly excellent.
Does Every Track Sound Great on Your System?
How do you know if it is the recording or your system?
By way of example with a focus on bass, for some songs I like the amount of bass, then another song I feel like it needs more bass to hit harder, and then another song I feel like there is too much bass and it is boomy. Does that ever happen to you? I feel like I am getting the treble sorted out, but going back and forth on the bass.
Can anyone listen to the first 20 second of the song Temptation by Diana Krall from the Girl In The Other Room album and let me know if there is a bass component that is a bit much? The vocals sound good so no issue there.
Thanks.
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@toddalin , that is not the one I have--my SACD Yellow Brick Road is the SHM single layer. (tonight I played what would have amounted to the first of two LPs) and maybe it sounded better than the old MFSL red book/maybe it didn't.; it didn't blow me away. However, Funeral For A Friend was thundering and penetrating and I loved that much of it. Who did the remastering of your 30th anniversary Deluxe Edition? |
From Wikipedia: The original 1973 LP was released on two discs, while the 1992 and 1995 CD remasters put the album on one disc as it was slightly less than 80 minutes. The 30th anniversary edition followed the original format, splitting the album across two discs to allow the inclusion of the bonus tracks, while a DVD on the making of the album was also included. The album has also been released by Mobile Fidelity as a single disc 24 karat gold CD. The album (including all four bonus tracks) was released on SACD (2003), DVD-Audio (2004), and Blu-ray Audio (2014).[21] These high resolution releases included the original stereo mixes, as well as 5.1 remixes produced and engineered by Greg Penny.
Unfortunately Funeral for a Friend is the first track and it takes a good 20+ minutes for things to really warm up and sound their best so I always have to repeat it at the end if it is the first disk I'm listening to. I assume your version has the acoustic Goodbye Norma Jean included? |
So who released the 30th anniversary edition, @toddalin ? (Just curious is all.) And no, both of my remastered Yellow Brick Roads are single discs (76 minutes long, I believe) and do not include any bonus tracks. No acoustic Norma Jean. My only other Elton John CD is a DDD that is live in Australia with, I think, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. It does have Norma Jean. I haven't listened to it in ages. I have it pulled out in its slot about an inch as I am going to give it a spin next session. As an aside, I used to like Elton John a lot, and I think that there was a time in the the late 70s when I probably had every Elton John 8 trcak except the self titled (my sister had that LP). I still wouldn't mind having a good sounding remaster of Don't Shoot Me--Texas Love Song is great. |
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