Best sound stage recordings

If you have some time to kill -

The Moody Blues - In Search Of The Lost Chord

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My favorite part of hifi equipment is being able to hear the room. It can really reveal the magic in a recording.

It can also ruin poorly recorded music, but that’s another thread!:stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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I’m with you on that track. It’s a great choice to see how much deep bass your cans throw out too.

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Binaural… ish? :+1:

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Really love that channel. A few of the songs are a bit over-compressed (the (otherwise great) Bad Guy cover for example), but such such beautiful recordings, arrangements and performances.
Found new talents to follow, personally (like so:)

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Oh, it’s you!

Thank you for recommending this channel, I’m subscribed to it since. :slight_smile:
And yeah, I had listened to liar then shared Build be up buttercup here, lol.

Shared one there too:

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Niiiice!

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I guess this has a very good soundstage. All of his stuff.

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I love soundstage. Here’s my go to playlist with my favorite headphone songs.

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What actually introduces sound stage into a recording? I’m sure you can digitally manipulate it in, but from a purely source recording standpoint is it multiple microphones one close and another farther away?

I’m a ho for that but it’s bad when its done badly in a recording and some things that sound absolutely insane in my car sound just aight when I play them on my home stereo and sometimes worse still on headphones.

I’m working on the idea that when you move your head listening to speakers the slight changes in sound add to that “stage” so it can be non existent wearing headphones.

The thought on why it works so great in the car is because, woofer, mids and tweeters are spaced apart thereby creating more of that sound stage space.

Would be interesting to discuss.

Anyway, here’s my sound stage contribution, sounds insane in a good car stereo.

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EMMA test CD 2007, 3.track.
Technical evaluation of stage bounders. Staging and Imaging - Gary Wilton

Walks and talks from Center of sound stage to left, to far left.
Then back to left, center to right. Then to Far right.
Then all point’s after one. Far left, left, center, right far right.
Plus long distance to mic and very close to mic talks.

The best.
It will reveal everything. No hiding for reality, from any system.
One of my reference tracks.

Like that :beers: for the rec :smiley:

Sounds nice.

I’m listening to the Amber Rubarth Sessions from the 17th Ward right now through my K7XX and it’s pretty darn amazing.

https://music.amazon.com/albums/B009NP7146?ref=dm_sh_fa83-e71b-6db1-8a1c-b232a

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One of my favourite recordings/songs ever. Maybe more so for imaging than sound stage. Hope you guys enjoy it :slightly_smiling_face: Also available on spotify/tidal.

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ah and also this

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adding a comment so i can come back to this, didn’t even know this thread existed woooo