Your Go to CD to Impress

@nonoise,tpreaves : Yours is the Best answer! Its only when my guests hear "their" tunes thru my stereo that they start paying attention. Me playing them Dead Can Dance usually resulted in a polite comment to the effect that I am one creepy dude ;-(

Well, "What are you in the mood to listen to?"
I think these sound good on my system:
Antoine Dufour "Mother" from "Existence"
Allman Bros. "High Falls" from "Win, Lose, or Draw"
Lucky Dube "Guns and Roses" from "Taxman"
Rickie Lee Jones "Weasel and the White Boys Cool" from "Live at Red Rocks"
Charles Brown "Quicksand"
Dixie Dregs "I'm Freaking Out" from "Dregs of the Earth"
Roxy Music "If There is Something/Mother of Pearl" from Roxy Music Live
There are many more depending on the genre, acoustic or electric, etc. but these are some if my favorites. Guests tend to appreciate the nuances of a good system with the music they are most familiar with.

sara k. - 1) Hell or High Water
              2) Made in the Shade.

          Hybrid sacd's on Stockfisch Records.

Excellent selections pigdog. The Stockfisch hybrid SACDs are killer.

Friends come over and inquire why you would spend so much money on a stereo system, what is the CD you load up?

I ask them to bring in a favorite cd from their car.