Best dire straits album

[JHZR2]

Hello,

ome time back we had a good discussion about stereo, and a number of folks cited one dire staits album as being particularly awesome.

Since search is currently limited to 1 year back, I cant get it.

Any comment? Also, any other suggestions of albums when you want REALLY good audio, engineering, finishing and overall quality? I like steely dan a lot because hey have a sound that I like and are exceptionally clean.

Any ideas???

Thanks!

JMH

 

[mcrn]

When you say quality do you mean the quality of the actual recording? And are you looking for suggestions on good recordings? If its just a good Dire Straits album then their best of is pretty good stuff. If it is good recording and looking to hear the sound quality of your system look for recordings done by a company called Chesky. They are great. They use the best recording systems and actually care about the quality and not just putting out a bunch of albums.

 

[Hermann]

My favorite is Making Movies. Lots of good tunes. And quite well recorded..The most popular song you might know is Walk of Life.

Hope this helps.

 

[MarkC]

I think their first album was the best, although I have heard an early live album that was excellent as well.

 

[97tbird]

"walk of life" is from the album "Brothers in Arms", not making movies.
I like both those albums, but not all tracks ("tunnel of love" is great)
I like "on every street" less.
Their albums are well recorded, but vol level itself is very low (esp "brothers..."

 

[97tbird]

OTHER WELL RECORDED "clean" sounding CD'S THAT I KNOW AND OWN:

Miles Davis: a kind of blue (remaster)
Bob Dylan: Time out of mind
Dave Brubeck: Time out (remastered)
Tool: 10,000 days
Crowded House: Recurring dream
Counting Crows: august and everything after
A Perfect Circle: the 13th step
Gretchen Lieberum: Siren Songs
Susanne Abbuehl: Compass
Pink Floyd: Dark side of the moon (Harvest original, heard that remaster is actually worse !)

Cheskey and maple leaf recordings are supposed to be very good..don't own any yet, though.
(and no matter what people say, Diana Krall CDs don't sound good to me...they sound overproduced and "busy" to me at times...)

 

[Matt_S]

Brothers in Arms is considered by some to be one of the best sounding recordings ever made, if that's what you mean. It's one of the first digitally recorded, mixed and mastered disks ever made, too. It's what I still use to test the quality of a sound system.

 

[1sttruck]

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEEDF1F38F93BA15754C0A967958260

Perhaps not vogue anymore, at one time 'The Look of Love' by Dusty Springfield on 'Casino Royale' was THE audiophile song. It's a nice song, and a fun snipe hunt looking for copies of it.

A small sample of others below. I do like 'Brothers in Arms' a lot.

http://www.amazon.com/As-Falls-Wichita-So/dp/B000026255

As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays

http://www.amazon.com/Sentimental-Reasons-Linda-Ronstadt/dp/B000002H3L

For Sentimental Reasons
Linda Ronstadt, Nelson Riddle

http://www.amazon.com/Stardust-Willie-Nelson/dp/B0000296J3

Stardust
Willie Nelson

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Rocking-Chair-Merle-Watson/dp/B000000MGC

Red Rocking Chair
Doc and Merle Watson

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.ht...agewanted=print

Mercury 'Living Presence' Comes to Life Again

 

[Big O Dave]

I vote for "Brothers in Arms."

 

[ekpolk]

How did I miss this thread earlier? DS is my personal all-time favorite. I'm partial to ALL of their albums, but if I had to choose, I'd take the original as my favorite.

Odd note: just last night I was out shopping and of all things, Lady Writer (from Communique, the second album) played over the store's sound system. Now there's one you don't hear too often.

 

[1sttruck]

Rock music is nice and all, it's a sizable portion of my collection, but it's typically not what you'd want to use to test a sound system unless all that you're interested in is rock, loud, bass, and such. Being essentially 'electronic music' that doesn't need to sound like anything but what you want it to sound like, it doesn't usually work well as a reference. Consider how bad most concerts sound, which is the 'live music'. There are exceptions, I've been to some great sounding concerts, but they still don't work well as a reference.

Acoustic music played in real acoustic space is usually considered a reference as people can know how acoustic instruments, even different music halls and different performers can sound, as opposed to music built by laying track on track in different studios by different people at different times. A well recorded symphony should enable ready recognition of the instruments, a sense of the music hall, and location of the instruments left to right, front to back, and even top to bottom, with cues of echos, pages being turned, etc.

Once the system has been set up you can then enjoy the rock music.