When you audition equipment, what albums do you bring?

uberwaltz,  I will definitely check out Catfish Rising. And you should check out I Robot. And I am slowly filling a 64 gig Sandisk with .wav files.

tooblue, I forgot about Dr. John.  I do have the LP. Thanks for reminding me.

JD

Nice selections- Guys.add- Van Halen S/T         The Doors S/T         Journey - Greatest Hits

I just remembered an album that has excellent sound and interesting music (at least I think so), one that never gets mentioned. It’s the 1975 debut album by Old & In The Way, a group consisting of Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Peter Rowan (from Seatrain), Vassar Clements playing fiddle, and John Kahn on standup bass. It’s real Bluegrass music, and was recorded in excellent sound and released on an audiophile label, Acoustic Disc. It's not a "SONIC SPECTACULAR!", it's acoustic music with natural sound. Lifelike instrumental and vocal timbre, no studio "sweetening" (reverb, echo, eq, etc.). Very "in the room" sound, not larger than life.

The Beach Boys "Pet Sounds"

Pet Sounds is great (really great!) musically, but sonically mediocre. Give the Sunflower album a listen. Also musically great, but in better sound.