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CD's you bring for auditioning

Do you also have some CD's which you use to audition equipment and which will reveal immediately shortcomings, eg I use

Buddy Guy - Sweet Tea (first couple of tracks can be unbelievable hard to listen to on some equipment

Pink Floyd - DSOTM, checkout the bass, the clocks can sound 'washed' up on some over-tubed systems

Pink Floyd - The Wall , played at loud volume will immediately reveal shortcomings on loudspeakers

and yours...
vinylmeister
emorrisiv
313 posts
 
Nimbus Benjamin Britten string music (fantasia on a theme by Frank Bridge).

Argo Kings College Herbert Howells

Return to Forever "Romantic Warrior"
Joni Mitchell "Song to a Seagull"
karmatogdral
66 posts
 
"Aladdin" by Carl Nelson-big orchestral sound(Chandos)
Any Massive Attack for punchyness and bass
Dave Brubeck's classic album-good timbre on all instruments without emphasising anything.
Beethoven violin concerto, played by Kyung Whuan Chang live in concert-for string sound/HF.
Any Buena Vista Social Club-overall timing
Any Nora Jones-voice
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mhconley
31 posts
 
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Toward Ecstacy
This is Alice Music - Volume 2
Creed - My Own Prison
Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily
3 Doors Down - The Better Life
inwanw
38 posts
 
When we were checking out speakers my wife would bring the sound track from Conan. Listen to it and you will understand why. Caused a few raised eyebrows, of course the speaker she really liked were the Sonus Faber Cremona auditor, and these were the low end ones.
mumbles
83 posts
 
I second The Mission Soundtrack, it's got it all.
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