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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MARK KNOPFLER - Sailing to Philadelphia, HDCD
NORA JONES - Sail Away wit Me - hybrid SACD
NEIL YOUNG - Greatest Hits DVD-A
K.D. LANG - Live by Request CD
"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."

Hi cycles2,

Absolutely. YWFM is my #1 demo cd to discern sonic impact from changes in cabling, equipment, tweaks, etc. Fantastic sound. Don’t understand why it is overlooked by the remastering industry, although no remastering is necessary IMO.

Best to you,
Dave

I want to second what a couple of others have said,
Keb Mo - As soon as I get paid, is stunningly recorded, the whole album.
SRV - Tin Pan Alley, fantastic
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here, particularly Welcome to the Machine
Also add,
Eva Cassidy - Autumn Leaves, Who knows where the time goes
Robert Plant - Great Spirit off Fate of Nations is unbelievable
Chris Issac - Wicked Game
Getz-Gilberto - Girl from Ipanima, the whole album SACD is remarkable
Led Zeppelin - I, II, III of the most recent remasters - Finally they sound great!



Dionne Farris--Blackbird
    Got to be one of the finest sounding cuts that is also musically awesome.
The rest of the album is OK--that's all.