Your Go to CD to Impress

Shirley Horn: You Won’t Forget Me Track 11
SRV: Tin Pan Alley from "Couldn’t Stand the Weather" (vinyl or SACD)
Jack Johnson: Brushfire Fairytales Track 1
Cowboy Junkies: The Trinity Session Track 5, 10, and 12
Dire Straits: Fade to Black and You and Your Friends from "On Every Street" (vinyl or SHM CD)
Chet Baker: Silent Nights (Christmas)

Excellent selections pigdog. The Stockfisch hybrid SACDs are killer.

"If they answer: "Oh, just about anything," I just quietly turn the system off and say ... hey, why don’t we go to Baskin Robbins for an ice cream cone?"

Perfect, oregonpapa. Another tell is if, within 30 seconds or less after the music starts, they begin visually searching for something to look at (a CD case/LP cover, or the completely unforgivable, their phone) instead of listening.

^^A most excellent list Jay.

"A song that sells a good system is ’If You Go’ by Shirley Horn from the 1991 ’You Won’t Forget Me’ album. You’ll swear that the artists are in the room with you. I can only imagine how good it would sound in hirez."

Hi cycles2,

Absolutely. YWFM is my #1 demo cd to discern sonic impact from changes in cabling, equipment, tweaks, etc. Fantastic sound. Don’t understand why it is overlooked by the remastering industry, although no remastering is necessary IMO.

Best to you,
Dave