rdg@hpcnoa.UUCP (10/14/83)
#N:hpcnoa:3500001:000:340 hpcnoa!rdg Oct 12 11:20:00 1983 How about a more serious discussion of recordings? I think all the arguments about equipment seem a bit pointless unless we have good music to listen to! I'm sure most of you have some favorite recordings that you'd like to make known to others, so why not enlighten your fellow notes-readers? Rob Gardner ihnp4!hpfcla!hpcnoa!rdg
bhaskar@fluke.UUCP (K.S. Bhaskar) (10/18/83)
The records I use to evaluate a stereo system (they tend to vary, this is a
general sort of list, but it includes a couple of different types of music):
- Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" from Mobile Fidelity
- 1812 Overture from Telarc
- Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks from Telarc
- Amanda MacBroom and Lincoln Mayorga's "Growing Up in Hollywood Town"
from Sheffield (the human voice is an excellent test for a stereo)
I also have an Omnidisc, but have not found it to be as useful as I had hoped
it would be (so now, I use it mainly for the pink noise to set the bias on my
cassette deck), though Sides 3 and 4 certainly tax one's stereo. However, I
felt with these that I was beginning to listen more to my equipment and less
to the music, which is the threshold at which audiophilia begins to approach
lunacy...
-- K.S. Bhaskar {allegra,microsoft,lbl-csam,sb1,uw-beaver}!fluke!bhaskar