Your Go to CD to Impress

Nice! tomcy6

I want those (7) Moody Blues discs.  I do enjoy 'Days of future Passed".
It is a reference disc in any format.

If its a guest who knows nothing about audio, I always ask them what kind of music they enjoy. 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?" 

When I play my system, or my violin for anyone, I select a piece that they know and already enjoy.  To understand something new in music and to evaluate a stereo system is just too much for most to handle.

"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.

I had a bunch of 20 - 25 years old over. They like modern country music so we played some top 25.

They liked it a lot so I said how about this - folk not country but close enough.  

Alison Krauss - A Hundred Miles or More of a Collection from 2007.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WNpwyP0_IA