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Songs you use when auditioning gear

What are some of your favorite songs to play when auditioning gear?  I often listen to Dreams by Fleetwood Mac.  Just about anything off of Gaucho or Aja by Steely Dan or Joni Mitchell’s Hejira or Hissing of Summer Lawns usually gets spun up too.  Dreams, in particular, is such a great song and is recorded with the balance I really like as well as a full and wide soundstage.  Wondering what some of yours are to see what I’m missing.

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elliottbnewcombjr
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CDs to Evaluate Equipment (I do not use LPs)

  1. Eurythmics, Sweet Dreams: Annie’s Voice; Highs, Dynamics; Stewart’s Electronic Imaging
  2. War of the Worlds, Jeff Wayne’s: Richard Burton’s Voice; Dynamics
  3. No More Tears Duet: Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer; range and distinction of their voices.
  4. Friday Night in San Francisco: last 2 tracks all 3 guitarists play: Imaging and Distinction of 3 types of guitars/strings
elliottbnewcombjr
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I forgot

Cassandra Wilson, Blue Light till Dawn

great distinctive voice, terrific musicians and engineering

elliottbnewcombjr
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Got home from trip, always turn system on, gotta hear it

White Winds by Andreas Vollenweider CD was on the table, 

 

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