hello,

can someone recommend some SQ classical CD's, please?

McIntosh 8007 Audiophile Test Reference CD.

not real big on classical cd's although i do own a few, but there not nessacarily what you would call 'SQ'

also depends what you mean by 'SQ' as most classical is very well recorded' like vivaldi,handel or even paganini for voilin solos etc
there's some focal/jm labs cd around, three i think and i have one of them and it has some classical styles on it and it sounds awsum.

where can i get those Audiophile cd's?

JB Hi-Fi Elisabeth street If you are in the city. only a few tram stop up from Flinder. the shop have a little section for audiophile reference CD. if you after the best reference. any thin from stockfish or chesky is highly recomended.

www.partsexpress.com sell Stereophile test CD's
Mine were delivered in a few days.

just got the troy soundtrack and i like it. still need some more software

howdy

i just bought a pentatone SACD of beethoven's symphony no 5/ mendelssohn's symphony no. 4. incredible hybrid or sacd. sa playback is amazing - uses every single 120db of its dynamic range...

(now i need a musical fidelity nu-vista sacd player to experience it!!!... and someone needs to make a sa for the car....)

hehe

d

(dave's back btw....)

any classical cd with tchaikovsky's 1812 overture. gotta love dems canons

maybe put ur sacd compatiable dvd player and a 7" lcd in ur car. that will take u to the paradise.

try a good recording vivaldi's 4 seasons. Has a lot of contrapuntal parts that should sound fairly impressive in the car.

The 3rd movement of the summer concerto should test out the sub a bit as well. (fast double-bass)

hehe....

nvmd SACD... - i've considered putting my turntable in my car. don't know how well it'd track around corners though...

thought of another brilliant recording... tall poppies cd of holzt's planets suite. always a good test with a huuuuge range of freq's from contra bassoon to piccolo and heavy percussion (mars) and much more subtle/delicate material in the other movements. i've always found that disk to be a good guage of a system's detail and accuracy. lots of systems i've heard just mush it all up and make it sound very undefined.

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Stamitz/Richter, with Simon Murphy conducting the New Dutch Academy - Pentatone (SACD) PCT 5186028.

The sound quality absolutely floored me. The closest to the real thing I've heard - and the first CD that has made my question my loyalty to vinyl.