Establishing a common analog listening bias

How about

Dire Staits "Love over Gold"
Don Henley "End of the Innocence"
Eagles "Hotel California"

on the other hand, due to the widely varying array of turntables, arms, cartridges and phono preamps in all price and performance ranges, maybe this would be easier to do with CDs instead of LPs . . .

I guess I've completely misread the whole intent of the OP. After reading Dertonarm's response to my last post three times, I still don't know what he/she is saying. If this is just going to be one person saying "On side 2, four bars into the 2nd movement there is a buzz three chairs down in the violin section." and then someone else chiming in "You know nothing about system set-up so your hearing is invalid" or "Any fool could tell that's not a buzz in the violin section; it's the second chair French Horn clearing a spit valve." then I guess I wouldn't be interested in participating.

Thank you all for suffering a Philistine in your midst. I'll be on my way now . . .

I thought the subject of this thread was a good one when I first saw it. Now after having contributed once and read through twice, I think it will end up raising more questions than answering.

First of all, there was discussion of whether or not certain albums were sonically up to snuff. Then the discussion digressed into a pissing match over set-up. The third, an possibly the most fatal flaw in all this, is being able to communicate that which you hear such that the majority of people reading the "review" will comprehend what the reviewer is talking about. One doesn't need to read many audiophile periodicals to understand that even the "professionals" struggle to get this one right.

I'm not here to throw a wet blanket on the party, but even after certain "reference" recordings are chosen, a lot of other "standards" have to be established and agreed to for this exercise to have any analytical value.

Or we can just continue on tilting windmills . . .

Eric

Dertonearm,

I think it may have been more appropriate to quote a more recent President . . .

"It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is." –Bill Clinton

I'll be interested to see how this turns out, but since I don't get what "it" is you're really trying to accomplish, I'll just stand outside your tent and pee . . r in. :-)

Eric