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Your favorite demo songs

What are your favorite demo songs that you listen to at speaker stores for each of the following parameters? Below is my list:

1) Female Vocal - Eva Cassidy's Autumn Leaves
2) Male Vocal - Coldplay's Scientist
3) Imaging - Ani Difranco's Everest
4) Bass - Vitamin C's Graduation (Friends Forever)
5) Instrument Placement - Still trying to find one

If there are other parameters that you listen for please list them with the appropriate song.

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Female vocals: An indie CD entitled "Grace Under Pressure" by an Ottawa-area female a capella group called Three Sheets to the Wind.

Male vocals: "Lady of Spain" from Garnet Rogers' CD "Firefly".

Violin: "Zigeunerweisen" from Lara St. John's "Gypsy" album.

Bass dynamics and articulation: "Purgatory Road" from Ray Wylie Hubbard's "Growl", and the last track of Edgar Mayer's recording of the Bach Cello Suites on double bass.

Overall dynamics: "The Wall" by Pink Floyd.

Imaging: Ladysmith Black Mambazo's "Shaka Zulu" and Doug MacLeod's "Come to Find".

Presence and overall realism: Ian Tyson's "Live at Longview".
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