It's not clear to me who these reference tracks are intended for....the owner or a new listener.
Playing a new listener a track unknown to them will mean less than something they've heard endlessly on the radio or other/their systems. That's why I find myself demoing/showing-off my system with a DVD-level version of Zeppelin's Whole Lot of Love....it's like hearing it for the first time!
For my personal enjoyment remastered BluRay audio discs, with zero compression on the drums, etc., do the trick for me:
Stevie Wonder - Joy Inside My Tears
King Crimson - Epitaph
The Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (not a favorite song, but the tom toms will move your chest!)
The Beatles - Why Don't We Do It in the Road (the complexity of that opening drum fill in hi-def has to be heard to be believed)
Van Morrison - Moondance
Beethoven - The Symphonies, Herbert Von Karajan, Berliner Harmoniker (all 9 symphonies and a half hour of No. 9 rehearsals on ONE disc!)
Caveat emptor: not all hi-res discs sound incredible....
Playing a new listener a track unknown to them will mean less than something they've heard endlessly on the radio or other/their systems. That's why I find myself demoing/showing-off my system with a DVD-level version of Zeppelin's Whole Lot of Love....it's like hearing it for the first time!
For my personal enjoyment remastered BluRay audio discs, with zero compression on the drums, etc., do the trick for me:
Stevie Wonder - Joy Inside My Tears
King Crimson - Epitaph
The Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (not a favorite song, but the tom toms will move your chest!)
The Beatles - Why Don't We Do It in the Road (the complexity of that opening drum fill in hi-def has to be heard to be believed)
Van Morrison - Moondance
Beethoven - The Symphonies, Herbert Von Karajan, Berliner Harmoniker (all 9 symphonies and a half hour of No. 9 rehearsals on ONE disc!)
Caveat emptor: not all hi-res discs sound incredible....