[Hififreak]

Organ

Marimba

Guitar

Marimba   

[timind]

I'm going with the Cello also. It has the ability to just reach out and grab me, especially when it comes as a surprise in the music. Such emotion can be expressed.
Love the sound of a piano also.

[toronto416]

I am searching for a complete high quality two channel audio system, and one of the CDs that I bring with me to auditions is a recent Hyperion recording of the Beethoven Cello Sonatas (Vol 1) with Angela Hewitt on piano and David Muller-Schott on cello.

Not only is this gloriously well done music making, but it helps distinguish good from not so good audio systems.  Highly recommended!

Regards,

Mark

[BobM]

Does anyone else think the way I do (my wife says I don't think at all, but that's another story)?

- I think horns and big band sounds best on horn systems, also those big Japanese drum tracks that need massive dynamics (but that nobody really listens to for long)
- Strings sound best on planer's (like Maggies), but this is just an approximation of a real orchestra and can't be truly reproduced in it's size and magnitude, string quartets on the other hand can sound damn fine
- Rock and jazz sound best on dynamic drivers, piano and guitar and double bass and percussion nuances need the PRAT and micro-dynamics that this type of speaker excels at
- Organ doesn't sound real on anything (live organ is amazing and can't be reproduced by a home system unless you have a Leslie attached to it)

Bottom line, you can't get it all in one package.

[Robert D]

http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/2987688/a/Wings+In+The+Dawn.htm



I was in Disney World not to long ago. We were in a Chinese Boutique
This Cd was playing in the Boutique. I said How Much???
They said $10.00 I said Deal.

It just rocked My Boat

Listen to the 1st track

Robert

[Laundrew]

Does anyone else think the way I do (my wife says I don't think at all, but that's another story)?

- I think horns and big band sounds best on horn systems, also those big Japanese drum tracks that need massive dynamics (but that nobody really listens to for long)

I experienced Japanese Drums during a demo, the dynamics were incredible (insane would be a much better word) - it was the only time that I ever witnessed the 28B monos "clip."

 

[drummermitchell]

Robert,just checked it out,nice .

[thunderbrick]

I'm going with the Cello also. It has the ability to just reach out and grab me, especially when it comes as a surprise in the music. Such emotion can be expressed.
Love the sound of a piano also.

When I was a kid my grandfather had a small chamber group that would play at his home.  One night one of the musicians set me on the side of the bed (I couldn't have been but 7 or 8 y/o), and let me bow the cello.  50+ years on I have never forgotten the richness of that tone.

[thunderbrick]

Herb Albert and Tijuana Brass

If you like Horns that make the Hairs on you Arms Stand Up 

Try It

Robert

Always loved that music but never could find a copy that didn't sound lousy.  Suggestions?

[Robert D]

Yes thunderbrick
Herb Alpert Definitive Hits CD

Digitally remastered using 20-bit remastering technology by Doug Sax and Robert Hadley (The Mastering Lab, Los Angeles, California).

This Is my Favorite

Robert

[thunderbrick]

COOL! 

Thanks, Robert!

'brick

[BobM]

Herb Alpert Definitive Hits CD

I picked this up this past year also. I just had to - it was the music of my youth. My parents and everyone they knew loved Herb.

I actually played a game on this with my wife ... name the gameshow that each tune was used on. 

[srb]

The Vibraphone.
 
For those not real familiar with the instrument, the vibraphone's bars are made from an aluminum-copper alloy called Duralumin.  Beneath each bar is a resonator tube, a precise length tube which amplifies the sound.
 
A shaft runs through the top of all of the tubes, to which circular butterfly valves are attached.  A motor and belt system rotates the shaft and as the butterfly valves open and close the tubes, a vibrato sound is produced.  (Technically, vibrato is a varying pitch and tremolo is a varying volume, so it may be somewhat of a misnomer, as the on and off action of the resonator tube actually does vary the volume and not the pitch).  There is a speed control to vary the effect, much like the speed control in a rotating Leslie organ speaker.
 
Different mallet materials and density vary the sound produced.  Most mallets are made of yarn wrapped around a core.
 
What a beautiful sound.
 
Steve