Audiophile music

[Robert M]

I know some are annoyed about the usual audiophile recordings at hifi shows.

But can pfm members post whats their audiophile music of choice.

Chin chin.

 

[Tumeni Notes]

Steely Dan - Gaucho and Two Against Nature

Various Telarc early digital releases, and some direct-cut releases from the same era.

 

[Tarzan]

Love 'Couldn't stand the weather' - Stevie Ray Vaughn is a great album.

 

[mikechadwick]

Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue

 

[uncl_nigel]

Sevdaliza, Shabrang

Most classical recordings issued by BIS - I particularly appreciate the Sibelius conducted by Neeme Järvi. At Munich this year John Cage's Third construction, for four percussionists (BIS, Kroumata Percussin Ensemble, Kroumata) was played in the Living Voice room - great music and brilliant recording - so nice to hear music you actually know and own at a show.

 

[Big Tabs]

But can pfm members post whats their audiophile music of choice.

Could you please give me your definition of what ‘audiophile music’ is?

 

[RJohan]

This:

My definition: Stunningly good sound the first time you hear it (then it might quickly become rather boring )

 

[andrewd]

Love 'Couldn't stand the weather' - Stevie Ray Vaughn is a great album.

My favourite SRV track is ‘Tin Pan Alley’ on the Texas Flood album

 

[krenzler]

Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks
Ben Harper - Welcome to the Cruel World
The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops / Hats
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Kashmir - Travelogue
k.d. lang - All You Can Eat
Level 42 - World Machine
Lou Reed - Transformer
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Melissa Etheridge - Melissa Etheridge
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Peter Gabriel - 4 (Security) / So
Phil Lynott - Solo in Soho
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Prince - Parade
Quincy Jones - Back on the Block
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones
Rush - Moving Pictures
Seal - Seal (1991)
Sinead O'Conner - The Lion and the Cobra
Sting - ...Nothing Like the Sun
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
The The - Dusk
Tina Dickow and Sheriff - Fuel
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
Trentemøller - The Last Resort
Yosi Horikawa - Vapor

Randomly off the top of my head. Some have audiophile qualities - some not so much (covering my back here).

 

[music fiend]

I like this one:

https://referencerecordings.com/recording/theres-a-time-doug-macleod/

 

[uncl_nigel]

"Shazams" from this year's Munich show, so someone selling high end kit thinks they're good demo material and I happened to like the music.

Malia and Boris Blank - Convergence
Yello - Point
Raime - Tooth
Chromatics - Sound of Silence
Charlotte Cardin - Phoenix (available on Bandcamp)

 

[MVV]

Raw Power.
Exile on Main Street.

 

[Jim Audiomisc]

Must admit I don't normally think of music in those terms. But if I do, three examples come to mind.

1) Direct cut LP's by "Dragon's Dream"

2) Files from '2L' company.

3) Some concerts from BBC R3 as 320k aac files.

 

[Mike Hughes]

Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks
Ben Harper - Welcome to the Cruel World
The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops / Hats
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Kashmir - Travelogue
k.d. lang - All You Can Eat
Level 42 - World Machine
Lou Reed - Transformer
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Melissa Etheridge - Melissa Etheridge
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Peter Gabriel - 4 (Security) / So
Phil Lynott - Solo in Soho
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Prince - Parade
Quincy Jones - Back on the Block
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones
Rush - Moving Pictures
Seal - Seal (1991)
Sinead O'Conner - The Lion and the Cobra
Sting - ...Nothing Like the Sun
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
The The - Dusk
Tina Dickow and Sheriff - Fuel
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
Trentemøller - The Last Resort
Yosi Horikawa - Vapor

Randomly off the top of my head. Some have audiophile qualities - some not so much (covering my back here).

I am strangely reassured by your list that audiophile music is nothing to aspire to at all. Roughly 10 shockingly bad albums in there that I could never listen to again if they were the finest quality recordings known to mankind but the inclusion of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers album is especially bewildering.

The album which defined the loudness wars. It has a massively reduced dynamic range; has been normalised to within an inch of its life and audibly distorts in a very bad way on multiple occasions across multiple tracks. I look forward to your detailed explanation as to its audiophile qualities.

 

[Octavian]

Raw Power.

Iggy or Bowie mix?

 

[krenzler]

I think you confuse BSSM with Californication that came after?

BSSM:

Album list - Dynamic Range DB

Californication:

Album list - Dynamic Range DB

Glad to hear I managed to both reassure and shock you the same time with my post. I do wonder what 10 albums appalled you to spew that post but on the other hand it doesn't really matter.

 

[per-Sony-fied]

Quick think response,

MOFI SACD version of Brothers in Arms
Original Vinyl release of Love over gold (Master disk version)
Waterfalls - Sara K, Stockfish Records, Direct to Disc
Temptation - Holly Cole, Analogue Productions

 

[thegreathopper]

Anything by Hate Forest.

 

[Martyn Miles]

I would question some people’s choices.
They’re ‘normal’ everyday recordings of high quality.

The only ‘audiophile’ recording I own is Rebecca Pidgeon’s ‘ The New York Girls’ Club.’
It has superior sound quality to all my other CDs.
The clarity, soundstaging and imaging is just superb.

It claims ‘High Resolution Technology’ on the label.
I tend to agree...

 

[Tony L]

The correct etiquette at a hi-fi show is to refuse to play anything other than The Fall.

PS I’m available for hire as a PR consultant to audio companies.