Only two tracks to test your system, forever!

Porcupine Tree - "Russia On Ice"

Dire Straits - "Ride Across The River"

Joni Mitchell, My Old Man

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga, The Lady Is A Tramp

Nasty

By:Vincent Ingalla

@baylinor 

love your picks. Greg 

Mark Isham - That Beautiful Sadness (texture, range and ambiance)

Bela Fleck - Flight of the Cosmic Hippo (serious bass)

If its only 2,they would be:

1) The Ghetto (George Benson)

2) Thanks to You (Boz Scaggs) 

But 2 are not enough! Other aspects of the system need to be tested too. So (for those still reading) these are some ofthe rest of the tunes I need to play to test my system :-

1) You and your friend (Dire Straits)

2) I'm the fool (Mark Knopfler)

3) Giorgio Moroder (Daft Punk)

4) Even trolls love rock and roll (Tony Joe White)

5) Singing winds, crying beasts (Santana)

6) Auberge (Chris Rea)

7) I.G.Y (Donald Fagen) 

8) Veto (Sohn)

9) Time Piece 1 - Harpsichord Bugalu (The Greg Foat Group)

All digital on Roon ...

KD Lang: After the Gold Rush (Hymns of the 49th Parallel)

Jack deJohnette: Alabama (In Movement)

1. Kissin - pictures At An Exhibition(piano version)

2. Pentangle - first album called The Pentangle(but only the british version not the awful Warner Brothers American remastering)

Hotel California live recording

Come away with me Norah Jones

...Diamond Jack...

For bass, Tommy Bolin, Private Eyes album, Post Toastee.

For clarity in upper frequencies, Pierre Moerlen's Gong, Time is the key, side one.

For final overall frequencies check, Kevin Ayers, Diamon Jack and the Queen of Pain, side two.

All vinyl.

It takes more than a couple tunes to get it right.

Annette Askvik Liberty,

Patricia Barber Cafe Blue

Billy Cobham - Stratus.

LZ - When the Levy Breaks.

Miles Davis In A Silent Way, side one (single track).  

deadhead1000, your reply caused me to find Sweet Baby James/Fire and Rain on the shelf; I had forgotten how wonderful that entire album is, thank you!

(TRT) Testosterone Replacement Therapy 

L.A. Guns - I’m Addicted 

The Police - Murder by Numbers 

Tamp 'em up solid - Ry Cooder

Help Me - Joni Mitchell

Babylon Sisters - Steely Dan

Fire and Rain - James Taylor

And a Female Singer, Amber Rubarth, Aimee Mann, Lindi Ortega, Brandi Carlile

I use the first two when I want to impress someone (older)  who doesn't understand what really good audio sounds like. I have yet to find a song that impresses someone under the age of 25 (unless they play or sing themselves), all they ever say is, "Well, it's louder...."

Both vinyl…

1. Porcupine Tree Harridan or Herd Culling

2. Anything Peter Gabriel

3. Bonus tracks: Roxy Music Avalon, Bryan Ferry Beté Noir

(Try to ignore the unrealistic aspects of this question that accompany the hypothetical nature of the proposition)

My current two, mostly based on frequency of usage for testing, are:

1) Diana Krall - Sway [96/24], Qobuz

2) Nik Bärtsch - Modul 12 [48/24], Qobuz