Dancing does sound terrific, good call.
Another +1 for Dancing ( just love 'Live in Japan' ). Not saying it is unique, but the guy Cares about the music.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
Pretty much the gold standard for how The Who's records should have sounded.
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Steely Dan - Aja, Gaucho
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery & Imagination
Ralph Towner - Solstice
Rush - Moving Pictures
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
I think the early Flower Kings albums were all produced well. I would have to go through them to pick out the best.
I also love the production of White Willow's debut Ignis Fatuus.
The Yes album and TAAB always sound crisp and clean with wonderful instrument separation, both from '72 I think.
Flowerkings-back in the world of adventures
Helmet of gnats II
Earthside-Dream in static
Beardfish-Void
Nemo-Revolusion
Besides Area International Popular Group, this is the Vinyl I want to own! Is the Japanese the best sound? I don't mind getting another version.
I just played this at Roasted Records in Stuart, FL along with Michael Jackson's Off the Wall, Phil Collins No Jacket Required, ELP Works 1...I was playing Cans and Brahms and some guy asked me who it was.
I love this album, Nuno's guitar work is excellent, but really the production is muddy. Steve Wilson needs to remaster this one.
Love the DeM, I want to get the Imparis album. Shpongle's debut too is classic.
As a matter of fact I've had many discussions with fellow audio people with a deep appreciation for Duke. It was recorded at Sweden's legandary Polar Studios (Abba et c.) and IMO it's a great-sounding record, Phil's drums especially sound the way they should for the first time. You can agree or disagree with the incredibly dense production, and I am sure the mix engineer had a hell of a time placing all of Tony's frequency-eating, stereo-chorused sounds - but if you accept the aesthetic choices of the production, the sound is superb. Mine is a German pressing (vinyl) that I bought 3 years after the album's release.
Not too keen on any CD versions I've heard later, although rumour has it there's early German CDs that sound basically identical to the German vinyl pressings. I defer to Jeff Carney on this point.
J.
Just listened to the remastered cd of Genesis Wind & Wuthering which sounds totally 1st first class - not bad for a 42 year old album! (I think the original LP suffered from cramming 50 minutes onto vinyl which ideally should only have about 37 minutes)
Landberk - Indian Summer
Canarios - Ciclos
HuGo"Very, very nice," said a man in the crowd,
When the golden voice appeared.
She was gold alright, but then so is rust.
"Such a shame about the beard."
Not sure anyone would place Queensryche in a prog category, but I've been listening to EMPIRE lately and the production is outstanding.
The Treasure Coast all the way from Ft Pierce to Jupiter is improving in the arts and music scene. Ft. Pierce has more activity than Port St. Lucie [population: 189,344 (2017)] which is a hot bed for Typical American Consumer Culture [sports pubs, corporate chain restaurants]...Stuart is improving as well with Terra Formata booking more jazz, jam bands, and cover bands...West Palm Beach [population: 110,222 (2017)] is even more explosive in growth with Clematis St. having a Miami Beach party vibe with lots of interesting restaurants like an all-ceviche bar and a growing vinyl shop called Rust & Wax Record Shop and notable places such as Elizabeth Ave Station, WPB A&E District, LivingDowntownWPB.com.
Also the Village of Northwood has a new spot called Juuuicy Building which is an all vegan restaurant with a community center feel that is very kid friendly. Across the street is a hipster French spot called Petanque Kitchen & Bar and further down the street is a Boba Tea/Kava Bar called Hideout Kava Bar that has an Alien Theme with a Nintendo Switch with Super Smash Brothers Ultimate game that's wildly popular. Also a Piano Bar that I never visited, but one of my jazz fusion pianists told me about.
Marillion - any of their albums dating back to Brave.
All of the IQ albums, post-Ever, sound incredible to my ears.
Same with just about all the Flower Kings albums.
Echolyn's "The End is Beautiful".
You say Mega Ultra Deluxe Special Limited Edition Extended Autographed 5-LP, 3-CD, 4-DVD, 2-BlueRay, 4-Cassette, five 8-Track, MP4 Download plus Demos, Outtakes, Booklet, T-Shirt and Guitar Pick Gold-Leafed Box Set Version like it's a bad thing...
re IQ... from Ever to 7th House sound quality was great, then something changed in the low end (assume they adjusted templates etc) and production has become less impressive. Just me?
DeM Imparis sounds a lot better than Devoto. Low end is suffering... On Devoto it doesn't go as deep as on Imparis.
Lots of pretty good ones listed so far.
While not really prog, I've seen a few ECM records listed. ECM on the whole, are all very good recordings, that recreate a fairly believable representation of real musicians, playing real instruments, in a real space. Unlike modern rock recordings, that are so ProTooled to death, that they lose most, if not all, semblance of space.
And this is why, despite 70's rock recordings being a bit less dynamic, a bit noisier, or not having the frequency response of modern recordings, are usually still more musically satisfying to me. The sense of musicians in a studio, playing instruments in a real space, is substantially greater on those 40+ year old recordings.
For a good example, just listen to the title track of KC, "Islands". Listen to the cornet in particular. On my system, it is about 5' off the ground, several feet back in the soundstage, slightly left of center between the speakers, with a very 3d image. I believe I can hear when the player moves his head slightly away and toward the mic. The rest of the players on this are equally palpable.
I tend to place slightly greater importance in things like soundstage and imaging, as I do with dynamic range, frequency response, low nose, etc. Soundstage and imaging are the things that suck me into the recording, and allow me greater connection to the music, even if the other attributes are slightly compromised.
One obvious recording that has not been mentioned yet, is FM's, "Direct to Disk" (also known as "Head Room". As the title says, this was recorded direct to disk in the studio. This is simply a great sounding recording. with no sonic weaknesses.
And if there were a god, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence - Russell
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring sounds pretty good - but is not prog sensu strictu.
not Symph Rock of course but English Settlement by XTC is a gorgeous sounding album
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
Triumvirat - Sparticus has really good production and sound. Of course don't get the remastered cd.
Moving Pictures as others have said.
Saga Worlds Apart has really good sound/production also
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