Ascend Acoustics Official Music Recommendation Thread

[mthoodmark]

Couple recommendations:

Eskimo & Sons: How Does It Feel To Be Crushed By One Man With The Strength Of A Million?

Really enjoying the female vocal/xylophone on the track 2012, you can hear lots of details/depth in the track. They have some songs posted here. No Sh*t is a classic track from that album as well. Now I really want to see them live!

In the same vein, I also like Emily Haines: Knives Don't Have Your Back. Website with sample track here.

Ascend speakers really allow the voices of these female talents to come alive, along with the instrumentation.

[curtis]

You are not alone. I have Carpenters - The Singles 1969 - 1981 in SACD and it is a great collection. Its not something I listen to everyday but Karen's voice is incredible.

I just got this in the mail today. Sounds great, and I have not tried the SACD layer yet!

[devotiondoubt]

I find it appropriate that my first post is in relation to music.


On their third full-length recording TV on the Radio continue to show why every other band in America should be calling it a day.


TouchandGo/Interscope 2008




An amazing collection of tracks from one of the founding members of The Jayhawks.


Hacktone 2007

[curtis]

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[scape]

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sweet find! I was about to pick up yo-yo ma today! thankyas for the tip!

[scape]

wow, had to share this, the new yo-yo ma cd is fantastic. the audio recording quality is simply superb, and the amount of music types is amazing. all over the place it seems. i highly recommend this to classical, jazz, and world music fans.

[curtis]

For those of you that are Patricia Barber fans, and fans of good recordings, I just got Patricia Barber's "The Cole Porter Mix". Excellent stuff.

[Gardog]

I have always liked Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Sessions. The disc is an amazing recording.

Also, Wynton Marsalis - Std Time Vol2 is awesome. In fact, nearly everything he does is awesome.

[Mike^S]

If anyone wants to test out the low frequency output of their subwoofer check out the track "Childhood Dreams" by Nelly Furtado. I'm not really a fan of her music but the beginning of this song has some loud organ music. I literally lol'd after seeing the woofer on my JL F112 nearly reach it's 3 inches of excursion as my fireplace rattled along.

[scape]

If anyone wants to test out the low frequency output of their subwoofer check out the track "Childhood Dreams" by Nelly Furtado. I'm not really a fan of her music but the beginning of this song has some loud organ music. I literally lol'd after seeing the woofer on my JL F112 nearly reach it's 3 inches of excursion as my fireplace rattled along.

haha, that's awesome. and an awesome sub, i'm jealous!
i played an old cd the other day (crystal method, vegas) and track 4 came up (high roller) and the bass line is unbelievable, the low hz and spl is just nutty! i never had listened to it with a nice speaker system, it is a good experience

i figured I'd give a link: http://www.last.fm/music/The+Crystal...as/High+Roller

and while i'm at it, here's a funny one from another artist i like (sigur ros), though I'm warning you that the video is nsfw, as it has a bunch of nude people running silly around a forest, lol
http://www.last.fm/music/Sigur+R%C3%B3s/+videos/6102097