Crackling Fire

Edition: Audio CD Price: $3.99

Genre:  New Age / Meditation  Pop Artists:  Various Artists

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Sleeping Under the Stars

I love this CD! I read some of the other reviews about this CD in which the writer complained about hearing the sound of a fire poker being used which kind of disrupts the recording. I have to disagree that the sound is a disruption. To me this CD is so realistic that it reminds me of going camping out in the forest and sleeping under the stars. The place where I used to camp (At Lake Arrowhead, CA) had metal fire boxes and the sound is exactly what I remember. There is popping, and crackling and the sound of the metal cooking grate settling and the fire poker being used. I can almost smell the cedar and pine smoke! I use this CD a lot after a particularly stressful day because once I close my eyes and listen, I am immediately transported to the mountains and the forest. Then I fall asleep next to a crackling campfire under the stars.

Not too Thrilled with this CD

What is supposed to be a crackling fire, sounds more like bacon sizzling in a skillet. It took lots of imagination to replace that bacon-image with a crackling campfire.

Another poster mentioned an irritating background "roar". Mine has it too. It sounds like wind blowing during a winter blizzard. It's very annoying. Thinking my machine might be causing it, I played the disc on two different CD players. Both produced the same sound.

To make things worse, every few minutes there's a clanking noise. It is supposed to be someone poking at the fire until the firewood falls onto the hot coals. It sounds more like a campstove falling apart.

So instead of a crackling fire, I'm imagining breakfast being cooked on a rickety Coleman stove during a raging winter storm.

Not that this is a bad thing...but it wasn't exactly what I had in mind. I give the disc 3 stars for creating some interesting and delightful confusion.

WARM AND COZY

i bought this in the middle of winter and it makes sitting in the study so much more comfortable. this cd sounds just like my own fireplace. i want to give the people who made this cd a big warm cuddle.