What is your goto reference recording


What record CD or down load is the music that you use to judge your system by or shop with ?
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An assortment of superior quality XRCDs or quality mastered redbook CDs, depending on the genre preference of the guest listener. These include any and all of the following:

XRCD

- Female vocalists in "Best Audiophile Voices" in the various discs in that XRCD whole series;
- Grand piano in XRCD with "Steinway the Beautiful";
- Classical masters in XRCD with "The Best of the Audiophile Classics" ( Bach, Brahms, Schubert, Chopin, and Beethoven;
- Rock in DIRE STRAITS in XRCD with "Brothers in Arms".

In standard redbook CDs , for rock / guitar instrumentals / jazz : all of the following three :

+1 for DIRE STRAITS "Love Over Gold";

Guitar instrumental: CHESTER & LESTER ..... Chet Atkins and Les Paul on their chosen electric guitars together as a duo, backed by the cream of Music City’s studio musicians circa 1975 in Nashville - a great 14 track offering .

Jazz in BILL EVANS "Riverside Profiles"... remastered in 2006.