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Top 3 songs to evaluate a system

Hi everyone,

So here is the question: what are your Top 3 music pieces to evaluate a system?

The songs should be complementary to cover a wider range of features, but not necessary. If you only listen to one type of music, it would make sense to only evaluate with this type.

Bonus: identify one good part of the piece where you pay extra attention because this is where the difference between systems is more visible.

I'll start:

Holly Cole Trio - Girl Talk - My Baby Just Cares For Me
Highlight: The vibrating cord at 1:59

MaMuse - All The Way - Glorious
Highlight - The clean guitar and the high drum beat that rythm the whole piece

Metallica - ... And Justice for All (Remastered) - One
Highlight - The first drums at 0:53, but the whole guitar as well


Doing this myself, I realize it's very hard to only pick 3!!

papyneau

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lanx0003
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I recommend the followings to name a few:
1. TakeDake: #6 Japanese Roots
- breadth and depth of soundstage, instrument separation and dynamics;
2. Voodoo by John Zorn & The Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet
- bass, edgeness of alto saxophone, keyboard notes reproduction, separation, transients, treble extension (airy highs of cymbal); and
3. London Symphony Orchestra - Bohemian Rhapsody, Classics. 
- Let you test everything when the music/intruments/vocals get busier.
lanx0003
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bigkidz:  I listen for piano first. What does that sound like as most music is in the mid-range. To me SS cannot offer the piano sound I prefer as the decay of the notes is to my ears to fast. Tubes seem to delay the decay which I prefer as to me it sounds more realistic and I can hear the "wood" of the instrument.
If the recording is done in a dead room, the piano notes will sound like decaying too fast without reverb.  "Delaying" it using an audio signal processing technique implemented in some DAC sometimes overcooks it and will only make piano notes sound artificially.  I do not know how much effect can be created by tube amp because I do not own one but I just want to stress the importance of the original recording.  A good stereo system is to preserve those attributes, not to create them. 
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