So I don’t have a super high-end system by any means. I have JBL L36 speakers. They sound awesome. There is some music that sounds absolutely incredible on them. The Beatles – Abbey Road. Oscar Peterson - We Get Requests, Robag Wruhme - Thora Vukk, Lorde - The Louvre…

There is some of my favourite music however, that sounds completely non-impactful and wimpy on the speakers as well. Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again, and in fact most of their catalogue. Bowie - Berlin trilogy sounds weak but it slams in my car…

I would really love to know if someone has a great system and Depeche Mode/Bowie sound fantastic on it.

  • SHEISTYRICEY@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Can you give some examples of well recorded rock? metal?

    One of the best metal recordings I have heard is Archspire - Bleed the Future

    • upthedips@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      While it is a very light rock album, Talk Talk’s Spirit of Eden is unbelievable but that is more post-rock than rock.

      Dio’s Holy Diver is pretty good but it can still rip your head off if you have bright speakers.

      I just tend to reserve heavier rock tracks for my car that scoops out a lot of the offending high-mids.

        • upthedips@alien.topBEnglish
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          1 year ago

          They had a bunch of mild hits in the UK. Their biggest song in the US was It’s My Life which was a bigger hit for No Doubt when they covered it. The wild thing is that the album Spirit of Eden made it all the way to #19 on the album charts in the UK.