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

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.

Just take requests and let them judge. Hifi marketing 101. 

Nora Jones Come Away With Me

I agree that we should invite them to bring their own stuff and/or select their own play queque.  It's the only way the music will get up close and personal to them.

But. I have to shamelessly admit that I take their keys away so they can't leave the premises until I get to play:

The King's Singers - Hard Days Night

Carole Horne - Noboby Knows

SRV - Tin Pan Alley

I have voice control in my streamer, have them talk into the remote and it plays whatever song they say. It’s a blast as we pass the remote around the room calling out songs.