The best sounding (produced/mastered) tracks/albums

[MC Bodge]

robbiekhan said:

I've gone back to Spotify, there are some issues with the Tidal app when in landscape mode which is obviously not ideal when in the car or even on phone as you can't exit fullscreen mode.

Thankfully the Spotify tracks seem to sound amazing anyway now that I found multiple versions of same songs where one was a remaster or from another album/compilation that sounds better - Guess Spotify never got rid of the rubbish quality versions. now back to back with the bit-perfect version on tidal they sound identical to my ears. Want You back by The Jackson 5 is a prime example.

Spotify at highest quality sounds pretty good to my amateur ears too.

[robbiekhan]

Yup, the other bug with Tidal seemed to be the desktop app would randomly forget the exclusive setting so have to keep going in once or twice a day to settings to toggle it back on. That was rather annoying.

[Focused]

Joe Zawinul - Faces and Places

I saw him live four times. He played with Miles Davis and created Jazz Fusion. A genius IMHO.

[robbiekhan]

I'm not feeling that one!

[NDA]

Focused said:

Joe Zawinul - Faces and Places

I saw him live four times. He played with Miles Davis and created Jazz Fusion. A genius IMHO.

I'm a fan and, along with Zappa, he was incredibly influential.

But I can only listen to so much Weather Report, I find it exhausting. But, as I say, I am a fan.

'Indiscretions' is a track from him I very much like, although I wouldn't include it here as being well produced. It has a great bass line from Richard Bona.

https://youtu.be/e5K6NnW3lbo?si=ay0Rp0PmJN7b2nQ7

[Focused]

NDA said:

Focused said:

Joe Zawinul - Faces and Places

I saw him live four times. He played with Miles Davis and created Jazz Fusion. A genius IMHO.

I'm a fan and, along with Zappa, he was incredibly influential.

But I can only listen to so much Weather Report, I find it exhausting. But, as I say, I am a fan.

'Indiscretions' is a track from him I very much like, although I wouldn't include it here as being well produced. It has a great bass line from Richard Bona.

https://youtu.be/e5K6NnW3lbo?si=ay0Rp0PmJN7b2nQ7

Thanks for your constructive comment. I agree about Zappa too.

In line with this threads title: I think Brian Eno's 2022 album ForEverAndEverNoMore (with lyrics) is very well produced, Very talented musician and producer.

Off topic: Your car choices are excellent

[Oberheim]

Listened to ‘Solitude Standing’ by Suzanne Vega for the first time in years. Sounds well recorded and produced to these non-golden ears.

[robbiekhan]

This song is top notch on wide imaging tweeters:

https://open.spotify.com/track/3p5xbd4nSF2ybR38SKE...

[Oberheim]

robbiekhan said:

This song is top notch on wide imaging tweeters:

https://open.spotify.com/track/3p5xbd4nSF2ybR38SKE...

Sounds stunning. Beautiful clarity on her vocals, which are projecting out into my lounge with a 3-dimensional quality.

[robbiekhan]

Superbly sung and then mastered, isn't it!

[Redmex]

Aliens ate my Buick by Thomas Dolby
Yellow Moon
Brothers Keeper both by Neville brothers not Gary and Phil TF
Colour by the Christians
Penthouse and Pavement by Heaven 17
Tubular Bells
Crisis Mike Oldfield
Franz Ferdinand
10cc
Must look up so many others but Peter Gabriel, Donald Fagen,

[robbiekhan]

Here's another one, well mastered, pure vocals:

https://open.spotify.com/track/6o3P5XYvDDWWTbzoJMU...

[WelshChris]

Literally anything by Stephen Fearing - vastly underrated Canadian singer/songwriter who's also a fantastic guitarist. He pays great attention to mixing/mastering. He's worth a listen - start here...

https://open.spotify.com/track/7Lk9Pb5CLVCeMjo8hhc...

[NDA]

robbiekhan said:

Here's another one, well mastered, pure vocals:

https://open.spotify.com/track/6o3P5XYvDDWWTbzoJMU...

Nice, I hadn't heard of her before - despite her being quite well known!

[NDA]

A jazz track - not tricky to listen to.

'Semente' by Snarky Puppy.

Great imaging and nicely recorded/produced.

[robbiekhan]

That is rather great, added!

[NDA]

robbiekhan said:

That is rather great, added!

So you have.

I can see it on the list.

[Deranged Rover]

I was at the Bristol Hi-Fi Show at the weekend and went to the REL subwoofer demo.

It was as hysterically terrible as I expected it to be, but it did introduce me to the track “Iron Man” by Yookie.

Blows the cobwebs out of your bass drivers quite nicely….

[Batfoy]

Couple of tracks I've been listening to a lot recently just because of their epic bass lines, can't quite fathom how they've got to where they are with them.

An 80s classic with Icehouse's Hey Little Girl and Gwenno's Tir Ha Mor. Album production on both isn't that remarkable although I never tire of the multilayered Icehouse track but both are great videos on YouTube, worth a watch for the fretwork alone. See if you can spot the timing error at the start of Tir Ha Mor!





I'm usually a fan of less is more with bass but these two work so well.

Edited by Batfoy on Thursday 27th February 14:49

[toasty]

Deranged Rover said:

I was at the Bristol Hi-Fi Show at the weekend and went to the REL subwoofer demo.

It was as hysterically terrible as I expected it to be, but it did introduce me to the track “Iron Man” by Yookie.

Blows the cobwebs out of your bass drivers quite nicely….

Why terrible? I’ve always liked their subs.