I agree with Musikdok -- depends on the day & mood. So I would hope to have in hand a mix of different "good" stuff to cover my usual urgings: Hugh Masekela - Hope (lively and rhythmic), Abbey Lincoln - A Turtle's Dream (deep and blue like the ocean), Rickie Lee Jones - Flying Cowboys (tender and evocative), Jan Garbarek Group - Twelve Moons or Officium (spiritual), Bill Evans - The Paris Concerts, Ed. Two (sublime), Brian Eno - Discrete Music (to settle me down or send me to sleep), Steely Dan - Aja or Gaucho ("the end of a perfect day"), Aztec Camera - Knife on vinyl (fun & passionate), The Verve Pipe - Villains (raucous and powerful), Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa - King Kong (not an exceptional recording but a real departure that seems to fill the gap when I don't seem to be in the mood for anything else), and maybe Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (in case things got so gloomy I felt suicidal).
Your Favourite Desert Island Discs
I know that good music is more important than sound, but which records or CDs are your favorite, for both good music and a spine tingling, audiophile recording. Mine would include Patrica Barber "Split" (more natural than sonic fireworks but very very good) the old reference recording of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat, and an original Dave Grusin Discovered Again on vinyl. (OK, a little bit cheesey pop jazzy, but still enjoyable.)