What Are Your Reference Discs? or Specific Reference Tracks

So the OP just asked for some reference recordings. I observe more than I post, but seems like  every thread that Millercarbon participates in become first of all a lecture series from MC, and then a bunch of snarky comments back and forth between MC and various other members. It really is tiresome.


I hope at least one person finds a new favorite in the list below

Rosanne Cash "10 Song Demo"
Kruger Brothers "Remembering Doc Watson"..
Leonard Cohen "Ten New Songs"
John Hiatt "Crossing Muddy Waters"
Alan Jackson "Like Red on a Rose"
Mark Knopfler " Sailing to Philadelphia"
Tim and Mollie O’Brien "Away Out on the Mountain"
Jamie Saft "You Don’t Know the Life"
Dave Holland "Good Hope"
Till Bronner "Nightfall"

I do find it interesting that several people have posted comments along the lines of..... I love this song but it is a poor recording (too bright or muffled or whatever) so if your system makes it sound OK then your system is working properly. I don’t follow. A good system IMHO should reveal a poor recording for what it is, not mask it’s faults. If a recording that really is too bright sounds OK isn't the system too dull?

Which leads me to the second thing I find interesting. How many people choose some recordings early on in their quest that perhaps aren’t really great recordings, and then tune their system to make those particular recordings sound good? Example.. They work at it until the bass on recording X sounds great, but how do you know that the bass on recording X is recorded all that well? Just because a reviewer declares it to be a great recording doesn’t make it so. Maybe it just happens to sound really good on his system

remastered BluRay audio discs,

I looked around and don't find BluRay discs of the titles you listed... DVD of "Whole Lotta Love"  ?? The Beatles?? Where do you get them?

what are you playing them on? Home theater ?

thanks