whats the finest recorded cd you've heard?

Too many to list...top of my head...

El Cant de la Sibil La (Most of the Alia Vox CD's are brilliant)
The Trinity Sessions, Cowboy Junkies
The Lake, Antony (don't recall whether The Johnsons are with him on that EP)
A whole bunch of ECM recordings...
Dreaming Through the Noise, Vienna Teng

...to name a few

Amused to Death,though certainly worth a listen, is more of a novelty to me. It would not occur to me as a very natural representation of - more of a WOW-factor; an imitation of surroundisound with only two speakers. It is recorded in Qsound (yes, see other threads on same subject). Mcondo - how did you use a laser for speaker placement? Can you point to an instructional URL? I'd like to try that. Speaking of a natural representation of music in space...the Stereophile recording by John Atkinson of Attention Screen is also superb.

Mcondo - Thanks for the input. That book's been mentioned in a few threads - did you think it's worth the purchase price? I'll give the laser positioning a try. I have various laser levels as I do a lot of construction work these days. I wouldn't have thought 3/4" would make that much of a difference.

McCondo - Thanks again for the input. FWIW "FatMax" is a group of tools offered by Stanley (CST/Berger), and not an actual product. I use several FatMax products. One of the laser levels I use is this FatMax laser. Is that the type of laser you've found useful? Otherwise if anyone were to do a search on "FatMax laser" they will find there are a few different options that accomplish different tasks.