What selections do you play when showing off your system to others?


I find that when I'm having someone listen to my system that I usually play the same 4 or 5 selections. I tend to lean towards vocals and acoustic presentations. Mine are as follows:

Hold That Line- Tedeschi Trucks Band

Roadhouse and Automobiles- Chris Jones

The Hunter- Jennifer Warnes

River Blues- Eric Bibb

Flight of the Hippo- Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

It's All in the Game- Merle Haggard

Your Bright Baby Blues- Jackson Browne

What are yours?

 

 

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I’ve found the best way to show my system off to others is to let them control the queue. While the listener may appreciate analyzing the music you play, they will likely not resonate emotionally with it because they don’t know it very well.

@blisshifi  absolutely.  +1.

 

 

Me too.

In fact it would be hypocritical of me to do otherwise after years of complaining about show demos where they stick to their well recorded 'background music'.

You just can't help but feel that someone is trying to hide something.

This happened recently where we heard the impressive Bayz Audio Courante speakers. These omnidirectional speakers presented a stunning out of the box sound but because the music was unfamiliar we had no idea just how good they were. 

 

Music has to resonate with the listener or else what's the point?

 

Anymore, I'd probably just suggest that someone brought their own stuff over . . . and see how it compared.  The last time I did that, my friend was blown away.  He said something to the effect of:  that he was depressed because we both had the same speakers (B&W 805s) and mine sounded so much better.

 

Sometimes it's even worse when someone has a reputedly worse system (acc to reviewers etc) that sounds better than yours!

It happened to me once when my brother's friend from work lent him a tape that was recorded on a music centre that blew away mine that was recorded on a middling NAD tape deck.  

On my tape deck!

Such things shouldn't happen.

Sometimes it's even worse when someone has a reputedly worse system (acc to reviewers etc) that sounds better than yours!

@cd318  that would have bummed me out.  This guys ears are way better than mine, but speakers aside, I have wayyyy more $ in my electronics.  He is the one that got me started  down this destructive trail, but where his main thing is HT, I diverged and became obsessed (with obsessed being a relative term) with two channel audio.