Best tracks to "show off" your system

Lkc boot - What Sheffield Lab site? www.sheffieldlab.com says "This domain is expired". Is there another one?

FIM Audiophile Reference IV offers a nice mix of well recorded, musically enjoyable titles.

Wstritt, I believe Sheffield is relocating and perhaps that why their page is down. http://www.regnar.com/Sheffield%20Recordings.htm (last CD on the list) indicates that one should still be able to order it. I guess I'll have to wait and see.

Since I am here...another favorite demo CD is Lorena McKennit (sp) Book of Secrets. I use the third song, but they are all exceptional.

From a wide variety of genres:
1. Dire Straits - On Every Street - Fade to black
(alternate: Love Over Gold - Telegraph road)
2. Steely Dan - Gaucho - Hey nineteen
(alternate: Aja - I got the news)
3. Alan Parsons - Gaudi - La sagrada familia
4. Nnenna Freelon - Shaking Free - Nature boy
5. Jesse Cook - Vertigo - Byzantium underground
6. Dave Brubeck - Double Live - Take five (best recording out there on disc, IMO)
7. Various artists - Jazz A Saint Germain - Summertime (Anjelique Kidjo) (thanks, Pascal)
8. John Scofield - A go go - A go go
9. Fiona Apple - Tidal - Slow like honey
10. Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Session - Pride & Joy
11. Herbie Hancock - Headhunters - Watermelon man
12. Jamiroquai - Synkronized - Canned heat
13. Pink Floyd - DSOTM - Money
14. Al Di Meola - Infinte Desire - Shaking the spirits
15. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Blues at sunrise - Tin pan alley (live)
16. Bill Charlap - Written in the stars - In the still of the night
17. Tori Amos - Boys for pele - Caught a lite sneeze
18. David Sanborn - Timeagain - Cristo redentor
Enjoy and happy listening

You cannot beat the UHQR Record of Cat Stevens-Tea for the Tillerman!!

Aja- Steely Dan
Back in Black- AC/DC
Have a Cigar- Pink Floyd
Silly Love Songs- Paul McCartney

Lyle Lovett The whole Big Band disk
Lyle Lovett Joshua Judges Ruth disk Track: The church
Cowboy Junkies Trinity Sessions

Every LP in my collection with my Koetsu cartridge

First time ever I saw your face-George Michael's Version

to show off, i tell my friend to bring their own CDs.

Yeah, "2 Against Nature" is pretty hard to beat. I also love the original soundtrack recording of "Princess Mononoke" on the Milan label (Red Book CD).

I like acoustic and organic based music. Chris Isaak's Baja Sessions, Jack Johnson's first album (mentioned above), Willie Nelson's Teatro, Paul Kelly's May 1992.

For full band, vintage albums include the Band's Music from Big Pink and Marvin Gaye's What's Going On.

Planty and Kraussy off the album 'Raising sand', track title
'Sister Rosetta goes before us', mesmerizing lilting track, lovely vocals by Kraussy, and all the instruments are nice with a special mention of the violin/fiddle in the background.

Lesse. 'The Wand of Youth', EMI, the track: 'the Wild Bears' for depth and soundstage.

For impact and ability to demonstrate energy without being overbearing: "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath, on white label Vertigo vinyl

for dynamic range vs detail: Verdi's Requiem, RCA Soria series, track 2 'Dies Irae' (LP only)

For outright beauty to make you cry: 'Heil dir, Sonne!' Seigfried, from the Decca/Solti Ring Cycle (LP), also 'The Lark Ascending' Vaughn Williams, EMI cond. by Boult (LP)

for a recording that sounds better and better, the better you stereo is, and sounds awful the worse it is: 'Village Music of Bulgaria' Nonesuch (LP)

S.R.V.'s Tin Pan Alley....