CHANGSTAR: Audiophile Headphone Reviews and Early 90s Style BBS
Lobby => Head Amps, DACs, Sources, Portable Equipment Discussion => Topic started by: atomicbob on May 15, 2015, 04:31:02 AM
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What music has given you your first OMG moment experience with the yggdrasil?
Mine is Hindu Traveler by Gary Stroutsos. I heard Gary live at a venue called Bake's Place. The recording playback is so faithful to the live as to give me that OMG moment. My friend was running sound and recording with rather exceptional mics, preamps and converters. Also, the venue had good acoustics and mic placement was very well done.
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The Police Invisible Sun. Not a great recording at all, but when I bam bam bam bam from the drums and I'm in the other room going WTF!
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These were some of the first albums I had lying around:
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Album is little bit compressed but not too bad, lots of information still to be extracted. Quite a few tracks have those 'look over your shoulder' moments on the Yggy. From the real-to-life vocals howls that come from nowhere, the finger taps on drum skins I never heard before, clapping of wooden drum sticks together, clanking beer bottles, everything just pops sounding 'there'.
Pretty much every CD I've gone through has had little revelations of one sort or another.
Spandau Ballet's 'True' had a rather haunting effect with how everything sort of melts away and sort of transports you off this world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR8D2yqgQ1U
This album actually turned out sounding better than I remember on his earlier tracks like 'Controversy' and 'I Wanna Be Your Lover'. vocals, guitar, bass and drums are just so clean and articulate for a non-audiophile disc.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Zce9gmjIA
The plucking of the strings on the guitar.. OMG...with Yggy and HD 800...man I need an amp pronto