Whats your current Reference CD at the moment?

Tpreaves,

You forgot to include a silky, smooth female vocalist.
May I suggest Yoko Ono?

;-)

Instruments:

Dave Grusin - Two for the Road

Great recording values, wide range of instrumentation and Diana Krall doing vocals on two songs.

Vocals:
Linda Ronstadt- Heart Like a Wheel

Young Linda wailing at her best

SoulFly 3, some surprises in the sound stages on this one

To show off:

Pop/rock
Fear of a Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree
Blue Moon Swamp - John Fogerty
The Essential Michael JAckson
The Beatles Live at the BBC (who knew some of these could actually sound very good?)

Jazz
The Classic Concert (Torme + Co.)
Black, Brown and Beige and Far East Suite (Ellington)

Classical
The Planets - Dutoit/Montreal Symphony
"Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition; Stravinsky - Three Dances from Petrouchka " (Dorian CD) Jean Guillou, organ

For Midrange and treble: Bob Dylan: Modern Life #3
For Bass: Embrya by Maxwell