Which album would you play first on the famous Bowers & Wilkins speakers at Abbey Road Studios?

[Joe Cox]

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And that got us thinking... What track would you play first at Abbey Road?

 

[RoA]

Ornette Coleman - Lonely woman

 

[jjbomber]

Has to be Dark Side Of The Moon, though Beatles fans will disagree.

 

[Revolutions]

Website doesn’t work.

I’ve heard the speakers in the control rooms of 1 & 3. “Breathtaking” is a fitting cliche to describe the playback of a track from Lord of the Rings via the original stems.

 

[abacus]

Yep, Dark Side of The Moon

Bill

 

[SteveH72]

The Beatles - Come Together
Followed by the rest of Abbey Road, obviously…..
What else? 😉

 

[RoA]

Next someone will suggest the Lord of the Rings tune. C'mon guys, be less boring 🙂

 

[matthewpianist]

Barclay James Harvest - Once Again. It was recorded there.

 

[jjbomber]

Next someone will suggest the Lord of the Rings tune. C'mon guys, be less boring 🙂

Already been done. Do try to keep up!

 

[skinnypuppy71]

I think the idea is to get something a bit left field and not the usual suspects.
I'll go with this as it's probably the finest "Indie band" recoding in recent years. Also they tried to record as much of the album "Live" as they could.
If you happen to purchase the cd version and load it into Roon, you'll find it has been given a dr rating of 18, unheard of in this genre of music.
It's not your usual fuzzy guitars and noise indie.lol

Black Country New Road. "Ants from up there"

 

[Gel Man]

We have a competition live!

See here to enter:

Win a trip to Abbey Road Studios to hear the famous Bowers & Wilkins speakers

Your chance to step inside the studios that have played host to some of the biggest musical acts in history

www.whathifi.com

And that got us thinking... What track would you play first at Abbey Road?

Metallica - Black Album

 

[martinus]

ufo; ufo2 flyiing (one hour of spacerock)

 

[RoA]

Already been done. Do try to keep up!

Right you are 👍

 

[good_enough]

6 years to their 100yr anniversary.

Stevie Wonder will only be 81 then.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

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[record_spot]

Joni Mitchell's "Blue".

 

[Entrigo]

Has to be Dark Side Of The Moon, though Beatles fans will disagree.

Without second thoughts.

 

[jjbomber]

You have to buy some 700 series speakers to enter. That is why the link doesn't work.

 

[davidf]

The whole Abbey Road thing - in my opinion (as I don't want to get in trouble over this) is a little tenuous. Yes, they may have suite with B&W speakers, but I doubt very much it's the suite that was ever used to mix music with. I think if it was, the mix wouldn't sound any good other than on B&W speakers. It's one of those associations that doesn't really hold much water, but is over-associated for commercial reasons.

 

[Revolutions]

The whole Abbey Road thing - in my opinion (as I don't want to get in trouble over this) is a little tenuous. Yes, they may have suite with B&W speakers, but I doubt very much it's the suite that was ever used to mix speakers with. I think if it was, the mix wouldn't sound any good other than on B&W speakers. It's one of those associations that doesn't really hold much water, but is over-associated for commercial reasons.

Here’s the control room of studio 1 when I visited a couple of years ago:

 

[RoA]

Without second thoughts.

First thought is usually the right one. Needless to say that was mine 😉

 

[gasolin]

the beatles abby road obvious

 

[Sixtyten]

Given B&W's avowed, yet only recently revealed, dislike of CD, I'd say, anything on CD. And I do mean anything

 

[Joe Cox]

Given B&W's avowed, yet only recently revealed, dislike of CD, I'd say, anything on CD. And I do mean anything

Go on... I missed this aversion reveal.

 

[nopiano]

Here’s the control room of studio 1 when I visited a couple of years ago:

Looks like they have studio ATCs in the landscape position, and the B&Ws with a matching centre, perhaps for video/film scores?