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Avoid anything that's been a victim of the Loudness War and you should be okay.
Specific examples for me:
Leftfield - Leftism
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Weld (or, really, anything from Freedom on. Young is a huge audiophile and all his 1990s and 2000s albums have great production).
Solar Fields - anything. Mirror's Edge OST is probably easiest to get on CD, though.
A lot of J-Pop and J-Rock is good too, as Japan hasn't been afflicted by the loudness wars yet. Ayumi Hamasaki, for example.
Really, though, use the kind of music you'd normally listen to, as it's what you'll be putting through the headphones most of the time.
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| StorminNorman wrote: | | Really, though, use the kind of music you'd normally listen to, as it's what you'll be putting through the headphones most of the time. |
Yeah, yah, that's the point of the question I guess  I'm curious as to what people use! Also, on what formats (CD/ Vinyl/ MP3)
Me personally (individual songs):
i. Tonal bass response -- Bjork 'Hyperballad' (CD) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CSiU0j_lFA
ii. Bass kick 'Shadows Of The Sun' Brother Ali (CD)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5SQzWf-08U
iii. Sound stage
Modern Rock 'The Day I Tried To Live' Soundgarden (CD)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbckIuT_YDc
Jazz 'Andromeda's Suffering' Alice Coltrane (Vinyl)
Electronica 'The Girl With The Sun In Her Head' Orbital (CD)
iv. Mono 'God Only Knows' Beach Boys (Vinyl)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC_UILNwWrc
The Youtube links are pretty much terrible representations of the actual recordings, but at least you get the idea...
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Ended up buying the Audio-Technica ATH-ES7. Extremely pleased with them. Thanks a bundle to Theo and Appel and everyone that recommended stuff. Hugely appreciated. 
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On it. Cheers mate.
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| StorminNorman wrote: | Avoid anything that's been a victim of the Loudness War and you should be okay.
Specific examples for me:
Leftfield - Leftism
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Weld (or, really, anything from Freedom on. Young is a huge audiophile and all his 1990s and 2000s albums have great production).
Solar Fields - anything. Mirror's Edge OST is probably easiest to get on CD, though.
A lot of J-Pop and J-Rock is good too, as Japan hasn't been afflicted by the loudness wars yet. Ayumi Hamasaki, for example.
Really, though, use the kind of music you'd normally listen to, as it's what you'll be putting through the headphones most of the time. |
Solar fields - Leaving Home. Awesome album. Glad to hear someone else knows of him. Stormin, the label he is on - Ultimae is full of top notch ambient artists. My favourite though is Carbon Based Lifeforms. Great production on pretty much every release.
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