Recommend me something to show off my system!

[Mark Lanctot]

OK, you guys aren't going to respect me in the morning, but I have to suggest:

Sleepy Maggie by Ashley MacIsaac

Good bass, good treble, clear female vocals, but it's the imaging that's most suprising. There's all sorts of weird effects and sounds flying back and forth across the stereo image.

In fact there are some other similarly-recorded songs on that album, "hi (TM) how are you today?". Yes, it's a weird album, but they paid special attention to phasing for some reason on a couple of the tracks, and it leads to a startling stereo image. This is expanded quite dramatically by a matrix decoder like Dolby Pro-Logic II, which is how I usually listen to it. But it even sounds "holographic" on my crappy Logitech Z-560 computer speakers.

[ezkcdude]

Been listening to Meat Puppets II a lot lately. Insanely tight bass and some killer cowbells, especially on track 10 "Oh, Me".

[zooropa320]

Been listening to Meat Puppets II a lot lately. Insanely tight bass and some killer cowbells, especially on track 10 "Oh, Me".

Despite the fact that they're covers, I can't get Nirvana's unplugged versions out of my mind when hearing Oh Me and Lake of Fire. Lots more bass on the Meat's originals though.

[j.wales]

Another opinion

Paul Simon's Concert in the Park, August 15, 1991 [LIVE]
or of course Graceland or Rhythm of the Saints - all very dynamic - the soundstaging and debth are truly excellent

Steely Dan - Alot of their older albums have been remastered and they are all great fun for picking out all of the instruments and there places

Neil Young - Prairie Wind

Wilco

The New Deal - Self Titled - Great bass listening

Soulive - Doin Something or self titled - for three guys - tons of fun and jazz funk - very well recorded

I also have to second/third Norah Jones -

[crooner]

Totally agree on the Steely Dan recommendations. Katy Lied, Aja and Gaucho are top drawer in both music and sonics.

I was listening to AJA via rippped FLAC files through my SB3 last night. Superb. Much better than listening to it with a regular CD player. Much more detail and image localization. And this is a regular remaster from the late 80s!

[Kyle]

Steely Dan. My favorite group. Wish they had kept a little harder edge to their sound instead of going almost totally jazzy. I saw them on both their later live tours, and they were excellent. They didn't tour for all those years because they couldn't produce live the perfection they sought in the studio. Fagen's got another solo album coming out sometime.

[tomsi42]

If you're not so keen on Norah Jones voice, but like the music and sound quality, you should try out her new group "The Little Willies", where she doesn't sing on all tracks . Kinda reminds me of The Notting Hillbillies.

I have been a Steely Dan fan since 1978, but my current favourite track is "Cousin Dupree" from "Two against nature".

Stevie Ray Vaughan's Tin Pan Alley has already been recommended. A track in the same vein is Ana Popovic's "Navajo Moon" from "Comfort to the soul".

From Norway, I recommend Kari Bremnes albums "Svarta Bjørn" and "Over en By".

From Denmark, Hanne Boel's "Abaco"

[TCM]

If you're not so keen on Norah Jones voice, but like the music and sound quality, you should try out her new group "The Little Willies", where she doesn't sing on all tracks . Kinda reminds me of The Notting Hillbillies.

I have been a Steely Dan fan since 1978, but my current favourite track is "Cousin Dupree" from "Two against nature".

Stevie Ray Vaughan's Tin Pan Alley has already been recommended. A track in the same vein is Ana Popovic's "Navajo Moon" from "Comfort to the soul".

From Norway, I recommend Kari Bremnes albums "Svarta Bjørn" and "Over en By".

From Denmark, Hanne Boel's "Abaco"

Nothing swedish? ;-D

[Khuli]

Nothing swedish? ;-D

All mine's on video :P

[TCM]

All mine's on video :P

The myth is still alive! :-D Or maybe you were talking about Ingmar Bergman?