What Are Your Reference Discs? or Specific Reference Tracks


Looking for new gems!  My reference discs are: Graceland, Paul Simon  Avalon, Roxy Music  Brothers in Arms, Dire Straits  So, Peter Gabriel  Ten Summoner's Tales, Sting 

What are yours?

wweiss

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My "testing" playlist is really just tracks that I enjoy and know well in my system.  So, if I stop by a hif-fi store I'll bring a thumb drive with a few such tracks.  After I break in a new wire, say, I'll play these and listen for certain things (e.g., bass on bridge on first cut below).  These are not necessarily very well recorded.  A few of these are:

"Out All Night", The Pietasters
"King of the Mountain", Midnight Oil  
"Last Laugh", Dancehall Crashers
"Swamp Thang", Hipster Daddy-O and the Hand Grenades
"And She Was", Talking Heads