Ascend Acoustics Official Music Recommendation Thread

[curtis]

I highly suggest everyone have a look at http://www.yourmusic.com/.

If they have the disc you want, it is $6.99...and that includes shipping. The only caveat is that you have to fill up a "queue" so that they can automatically send you one disc a month and charge you for it....other than that, you can buy as many as you want.

[Eddie]

I highly suggest everyone have a look at http://www.yourmusic.com/.

If they have the disc you want, it is $6.99...and that includes shipping. The only caveat is that you have to fill up a "queue" so that they can automatically send you one disc a month and charge you for it....other than that, you can buy as many as you want.

yikes, that site used to be $5.99 shipped! Also didn't remember anything about a queue or getting charged for one CD per month. Maybe they were losing money.

I think they are a branch of the BMG Music Service, which I use. Can usually get deals for CDs at around $6-7 shipped each, plus the introductory package is very sweet. I think BMG has more titles, but still nothing like Amazon. Weak on more recent alternative music. Can't get Jack Johnson for example. And each month you get an email with a "Featured Selection of the Month" at some ridiculous $19 price plus shipping, which you have to click to refuse within a week or two or they send it to you automatically.

The problem with clubs like this is that half the time I find myself buying CDs that I don't REALLY REALLY want but am just sort of curious about and get snookered into buying due to availability at low prices.

[curtis]

Yes...they are a branch of BMG. It seems they have everything BMG has....and I like the system better, so I cancelled my BMG membership.

[Brian]

I've been listening to a lot a music on my 340SEs since I purchased them around a year and a half ago and if I had to recommend one album, I think it would be Yoko Kanno's Wolf's Rain OST. Track 3, Coração Selvagem in particular is pretty amazing on these speakers.

[GirgleMirt]

Interesting, even though you've suggested an OST, I've never really given any thought to what many of these great composers might have done away from soundtracks. I've always been impressed at the quality music of many of these japanese anime/movies, and it basically doesn't suffer from the music destroying engineering most commercial albums suffer from. But there's quite a bit non-OST stuff they've done... Hmmm! I'll probably check it out a few of these, as well as a few other albums from others similar sources!

As for my recommendations, I always go back to the old classics. The Division Bell always impresses (Gilmour's rendition of a few pieces in his acoustical DVD are beautiful), as well as older classical Pink Floyd albums. Roger Water's Amused to Death is also a must have and at 10$ from amazon is really a no brainer for a great musical journey.

[Sam1000]

"Before these crowded streets"
"Crash"

I have a hard time deciding which one I like the most from these 2. Sierra's really bring out the finer details out of these recordings. There's a really nice passage at the end of the song "Crush" on the first CD which often gets edited out when the song plays on the radio. If you ever want to buy just one DMB cd, buy these two :-)

[sensibull]

If you're been enjoying Damien Rice and Ray LaMontagne, I'd say definitely give Iron & Wine a listen, particularly the last two albums The Shepherd's Dog and Our Endless Numbered Days. Somehow both earthy and poetic, folky yet edgy. Kind of like an Southern Gothic Nick Drake.

And if you like Allison Kraus, maybe check out Gillian Welch. Less bluegrass, more folk/Americana but equally stunning singing chops with a little more edge.

[muzz]

Listening to Joni Mitchell's "A Case Of You" right now..
Fantastic..

I will have to get the CD "Blue" of hers after listening to this on Sierras.
I always liked Circle game as well.

Ooooops......A Perfect Circle is coming on!!

Judith!!

CYA!

[donaldekelly]

Question about symphonies on Sierras

I have been a little disappointed with the sound of several symphonies on the Sierra 1s. I am wondering if there is much to do to address this. It isn't the speakers. Chamber music - particularly some solo performances are awesome. But I played several symphonies recently that didn't really sound as good as I thought they should.
Maybe it is the quality of the recording - though some reviews say the recordings are good. I am trying to get some more that are recorded and played well.

Maybe it is the nature of symphonies - the microphones are farther back than in chamber music or even concertos with a soloist?

Any help or recommendations of symphonies that sound great and are played great would be appreciated. Beethoven, Mahler, Haydn, the usual suspects.

Thanks.

[donaldekelly]

By the way - a stunning 2 cd set


Bach: The Six Sonatas and Partitas
Paul Galbraith (Performer)

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