Only two tracks to test your system, forever!

...thanks, gladmo

Ry Cooder/Manual Galban opening cut off Mambo Senuendo ..."Drume negrita:  (if your system can fully decongest the confusion, be happy...)

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Little Feat's live Waiting for Columbus (live) Super Deluxe Edition ...Fat Man in the Bathtub  (heard live at the University of Alabama 1977...recently discovered former Chief Editor of Phile John Atkinson uses it as a testing reference as well)...drumkit and synth need to attack with hall ambience 

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This thread for me confirms easily the worst thing about audiophiles: their taste in music. Of course the answers are going to be middle-of-the-road audiophile-approved pap like Patricia Barber and Diana Krall. And yes, let's not forget Flight of the Snoring Hippo and the Eagles' live version of Hotel California (now in quadrilliophenia on a special pixiedust-infused disc so you can buy the precious recording for the twelfth time).

Your 20-year-old self would hate what you've become. Tell me I'm wrong.

John Coltrane - Blue Train

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue

The last two movements of the Saint Saens Symphony 3 - Charles Munch/BSO RCA Living Stereo CD. A great test of dynamic range/bass power!

Live FM radio broadcasts on WCRB of the Boston Symphony Orchestra are my make-it-or-break-it test.

It’s the raison d'être of the system and all else follows.

By a welcome gift of fate, a few years ago they relocated their broadcast tower to six miles away and I have a fine tuner.

The way they mike the orchestra, you can hear every little thing right in its place, and the whole room.

As for test tracks, I’m so used to playing dozens that to narrow it down to just two…

You’ve got me thinking and it’s going to take a while.