IMO the two best tracks to demo or test any system


Celine Dion - Its All Coming Back To Me
Led Zeppelin - In My Time of Dying

Both songs can give you a great understanding of any system your listening to, or building or wanting to build.

May examples are from Celine Dion's greatest hits on CD, I would like to use the original album, I find Greatest Hits can be compressed more to fit more songs on the CD as apposed to the original release. Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti Classic Records pressing.

Just my thoughts I wanted to share with my fellow nut cases :)

Peace Kev
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Greatest hits usually get most of reprocessing of the original materials to match sound characteristics of one to another and therefore not on my list to demo.
Had LZ classsic records 180g pressing, but was not impressed compared to first press. It's definitely more quiet, but dynamics are sacrificed and makes me bored or is it just Led Zeppelin that I'm tired of listening to on all formats.

Small releases from the small record companies sound best to me:
CMP label: Charlie Mariano,Philip Catherine,Jan Garbarek,Bo Stief -- "October" on vinyl
Sky label: Irmin Schmidt -- Impossible Holidays on vinyl
WEA label german pressing of Carla bley's "European tour 1977"
almost ECM vinyls (especially german presses) are all great to demo.
I too avoid listening to that whining. Very depressive at any recording or mastering quality.
She's probably been screwed up by too many boyfriends and ended up with none. No wonder her personal life is kinda hidden in lines of wikipedia.