Opus Test Record 4 Depth of Image Timber Dynamics
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Description
It is always difficult to accurately evaluate exactly what effect any change in your system has created, especially when auditioning different gear, different cables. The Opus Test Records are excellent "metrics" for analysis when combined with notes you have made about the prior setup.
In essence, an inexpensive way to hang on to sanity!
"In this the fourth test record, the three basic concepts of Depth of Image, Timbre and Dynamics have been linked together as a basis for evaluation of HiFi equipment.."
" like its predecessors, contains a generously varied selection of acoustic music from the Opus 3 catalog, with advisers concerning special points to listen for on each track. Again like its predecessors, the new test record makes an enjoyable music sampler, all the more so as it includes no fewer than 11 tracks from 11different Opus 3 titles, most of them recent releases."
1 Nobody's Blues But Mine (Morton) from Tomas Örnberg's Blue Five and Friends
2 Sweet Georgia Brown (Bernie - Pickard - Casey) from Lars Erstrand Quartet
3 Allegro di Molto (Mendelssohn) from Stockholm Guitar Quartet
4 Concertino (L-E Larsson) from Clarinet concertos. Mozart, Larsson etc
5 Stompin' at the Savoy (Sampson - Goodman) from Erstrand-Lind Quartet
6 Concertino (L-E Larsson) from Concertos for Double Bass and orchestra
1 Reunion Blues (M. Jackson) from Two sides of Lars Erstrand
2 Kongen (M. Lingedal) from Knoa II
3 Black Beauty (Ellington) from Blue Five featuring Kenny Davern
4 House Of The Rising Sun (arr. Peters & Bibb) from Cyndee Peters
5 Look Over Yonder (Trad. arr. E Bibb) from Eric Bibb
Each cut was specially selected for it's ability show case how your system creates depth of image and timbre Dynamics
The insert carefully details the specific merits of the individual tracks, "Notice the very shimmering sound of the cymbals--it must be soft, buoyant and open, with no hint of harshness."
"Listen to the full, gentle voices of the blues singer...the natural dynamics of the human voice really come into their own." "The conga drum must have deep, well-defined tone, without having to sound 'boomy'."
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