Your Go to CD to Impress


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

Patricia Barber  ---Café Blue

Dead Can Dance-Into the Labyrinth


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Bela Fleck - Flight of the Cosmic Hippo
Rebecca Pidgeon - Spanish Harlem
Nils Lofgren - Keith Don't Go
Patrica Barber - Use Me
Eva Cassidy - Live at Blues Alley - the entire album 
Harry Belafonte - Live at Carnegie Hall - the entire album 

Patricia Barber- Companion XRCD ... a stunningly good recording and Shakti's first album -- with John McLaughlin... a spectacular album with Zakir Hussein on tablas... transcendental! I was privileged to see them live in 1977 and I'll never forget it!
DSOTM in SACD 5.1 is like hearing it for the first time!

A song that sells a good system is 'If You Go' by Shirley Horn from the 1991 'You Won't Forget Me' album. You'll swear that the artists are in the room with you.  I can only imagine how good it would sound in hirez.