Update: Reference music

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We added a new piece of reference music to our regular lineup - we mentioned it previously, but it has proven to be enlightening.

Genesis Selling England by the Pound's second song "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)"

The track is full of stereo tricks - including a lawmower moving across the stage, but the most spectacular part of it is the lyrics are Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel singing in close harmony.  A system that isn't resolving will sound like Peter Gabriel with a little bit or reverb.  The more revealing the system, the more you will notice that it is the two people singing quite distincly form one another.

The Quads sailed through this, where there was no way you could not tell it.  Martin Logan Spires was clear if you knew it already, the Thiel CS2.4s if you listened carefully, and the Bose 901's we own (that's audiophile sin #349, for those keeping track) it was reverb city but a stadium concert wide soundstage to make up for it.  We own it on CD and SACD - both the remasters.

This blog loves Genesis as a general rule, so happily adds this song to our lineup.


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