So, you’ve bought your brand new speakers – be it our award-laden Zeppelin ipod system, the equally heavily awarded 685s or a gleaming pair of 802 Diamond – and you’re lining up your favourite music to test them on.
We want to know what you’ve found sounds the best. Which stand-out track would you play when your friends come round and you want to really show them off, or perhaps justify why you bought them to your partner.
It might be that you hear something new in an old favourite that you’d never heard before or that suddenly it sounds as if Keith Richards is playing in front of you.
The Daily Growl from Lambchop’s Is A Woman sounds brilliant on my 684′s – there is a beautiful depth and warmth and a really immediate live feel that always makes people ask who the artist is.
We’d love to hear from you on what makes your speakers sing.
White Noise Sound’s eponomously titled debut album has been the first thing I’ve listened to on my new Zep today and I’d just like everyone to know it sounds absolutely flipping fantastic!
Posted: Thursday, 6 January 2011@jan
Please, can you tell me, which Eagles’ album do you have with acoustic version of Hotel California?
Maybe somebody else know which album contains acoustic version of this song?
Best regards,
Posted: Sunday, 9 January 2011Filip Majsterek.
Some of the tracks that I particularly like listening to on my hi-fi sound reproduction system (CD player, preamplifier, power amplifier and loudspeakers) are as follows:
“Money” from “Dark Side of the Moon” by Pink Floyd.
“Blue Bayou” from “Simple Dreams” by Linda Ronstadt.
“Poor Poor Pitiful Me” from “Simple Dreams” by Linda Ronstadt.
“Old Paint” from “Simple Dreams” by Linda Ronstadt.
“Go Your Own Way” from “Rumours” by Fleetwood Mac.
“Don’t Stop” from “Rumours” by Fleetwood Mac.
“Dreams” from “Rumours” by Fleetwood Mac.
“Band on the Run” from “Band on the Run” by Paul McCartney and Wings .
“Stairway to Heaven” from “Led Zeppelin IV” by Led Zeppelin.
“Kashmir” from “Physical Graffiti” by Led Zeppelin.
“In My Time Of Dying” from “Physical Graffiti” by Led Zeppelin.
“Not Pretty Enough” from “Barricades & Brickwalls” by Kasey Chambers.
“Big Jet Plane” from “Down the Way” by Angus and Julia Stone.
“We Belong Together” from “Pirates” by Rickie Lee Jones.
We are so very fortunate to have so many talented artists, of which the above are but a miniscule selection, whose works we can choose from, as well as the audio equipment that can bring to life their performances in our own listening rooms.
Posted: Friday, 28 January 2011Any track with Yello is a great “test” for a hi-fi setup. ;)
Posted: Sunday, 10 April 2011Setup
B&W Zeppelin Air
[re:jazz] Expansion
Promised Land
Gabrielle
[re:jazz] Point Of View
Posted: Tuesday, 10 May 2011All I Need
That Night
Writing On The Wall
Inner City Life
Written In The Stars
Zeppelin
The whole of ‘A Passage In Time by Dead Can Dance’
Posted: Monday, 23 May 2011Hello.
Here’s some of the tracks that really makes my 805D’s shine!
Jakob Dylan – We don’t live here anymore
Posted: Monday, 1 August 2011Drori Hansen Furniture – I wanna Love
Jeff Buckley – Lover, you should have come over
Wilco – Hate it Here
Fleet Foxes – The Shrine/An argument
I just ordered some new B&W CM8s from Best Buy. To test the speakers in their Magnolia speaker room, I used the new Blue Coast Collection 2. My favorite track is “Another Grey Morning” by Jenny Mammina. Her voice sounded fantastic and really filled the room coming from the CM8s.
Posted: Thursday, 18 August 2011C5
In my C5 headphones once I loved from Shirley Horn, Dexter Gordon Mahna de carnaval, Blue Bossa sounds so great detailed, crispy and at the same time rich bass.
Zeppelin:
jon hopkins light through the veins and Hotel Costes Where do I begin remix
Posted: Monday, 5 September 2011From the Mac / Airport Extreme-Express combo its Cara Dillon -She Moves Through The Fair from Life at the Grand Opera House in Apple lossless (downloaded from B&W Society of Sound!)
From CD its Pink Floyd- Us And Them from Dark Side Of The Moon
From Vinyl its Radiohead- Weird Fishes/Arpeggi from In Rainbows
All listened through on 805s in conjugation with ASW610 on Cyrus CD8+PSX-R, Cyrus 8vs2 (pre amp)+PSX-R and 2x Smart power amps.
Posted: Thursday, 29 September 2011Rakim by Dead Can Dance.
I have a Live version recorded in Montreal and WOW!
In fact most live versions of this song sound great!
Also, most Sosciety of Sound releases are rather phenomenal, as they should be coming from B&W…
Posted: Monday, 24 October 2011http://bethhart.com/user_images/news/beth-hart-joe-bonamassa-dont-explain.jpg All of this
Posted: Thursday, 22 December 2011U2….Unforgettable Fire
Posted: Monday, 2 January 2012One of my favorite songs, played on my B&W 604 s3.
Ilse de Lange – Hurricane
Posted: Tuesday, 12 June 2012Anouk – Lost
John Hiatt – Have a little faith in me
The Kyteman Orchestra sounds magnificent on my B&W 604. One of my favorites is ”Preaching to the choir”
Posted: Sunday, 17 June 2012802Diamonds, Savage Garden – too the moon and back. nice mellow bass and detailed highs in shifting stereo. goo test for a system and speakers
Posted: Thursday, 20 September 2012- Diana Krall – “Abandonned Masquerade” from “The girl in the other room” album
Posted: Thursday, 18 October 2012- Ray Charles/ Norah Jone – “Here we go again” from “Genius loves Company” album
- Yo-Yo Ma – “The Mission:Gbriel’s Oboe” from “Yo-Yo Ma plays Ennion Morricone” album
- Anne sophie Mutter – “Carmen Fantaisy,Op.25: Allegro Moderato” from “Carmen Fantaisy” Album
- Sting – “Fields of Gold “from “All this Time” album
is my test playlist of the moment.But it change depending on my humor.
Hi, I would suggest Chan Chan by Compay Segundo from CD “Duets”; this Cd has many songs that sounds very good.
Other Cd’s that sounds very good are Rock Ballads, they were recorded in Netherlands by Magnum.
Cheers
Posted: Thursday, 16 May 2013