Tracks that bring out the best of YOUR digital system


My faves-never fail to get toes tapping or give goosebumps. Qobuz

-Feels so good (C. Mangione)

-little by little (R. Plant)

-Do you believe instrumental (poolside)

-all night long (Lionel)

-this must be the place (talking heads)

-hang on to your love (Sade)

-rock you gently (j. Warnes)

-don’t stop me now (queen)

-lonely stranger (Clapton)

-So lonely (police)

-just like you (satin jackets)

-innocent man (b. Joel)

-in love (melosense)

silhouette (goldroom)

 

What are your faves?

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Six Blade Knife- Dire Straits

Voices Inside My Head- The Police

Blue Wind- Jeff Back

Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor- Bach(various artists but find "best version ever")

Troubles what you’re in - Fink (live)

Thanks to you - Boz Scaggs

He’s given me things - Elvis Costello

Fields of gold - Eva Cassidy

Home at Last - Steely Dan

Crystal Ball - Carolin No

i try to find all hi-res. Not all of these are but still send my system to Nirvana.

If you do these necessary things much more of your system will be toe tapping .

Ifyou are into digital the issue is not getting the basics right for example 

you should have a modem router combo to start , the agood LPS power supply going to the router for these wall warts are $5 pieces of noise and digital from house to house brings noise  ,fiber optic sucks the life outof music 

you need a quality Ethernet switch Ansuz  and others sell them around $2500 and up, and good Ethernet cables ,the one at the endpoint most important .

for $400 Sablon makes a verygood one for the money .for example. ,even witha goood dac until your address these weaknesses then you-will not get that vinyl type  sound ,dac should be at least $4500 on up if you want true reference quality sound .I go to many audioget togethers and finally got the message ,no short cuts Allowed !!

A small selection. 

How deep is the ocean - Diana Krall
Concerto de Aranjuez (Rodrigo) - John Williams
Fantasia in C minor KV 475 (Mozart)  - Mitsuko Uchida
Menuet sur le nom de Haydn (Ravel)  - Dieter Ilg
Concerto Grosso No1 op 3 HWV 312 (Handel) - Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Goldberg Variations (JS. Bach) - Glenn Gould
Kind of blue - Miles Davis
The Rite of Spring (Stravinsky) - Simon Rattle & London Symphony Orchestra
Dark side of the moon - Pink Floyd
A Night on the bare mountain (Mussorgsky, Orch. Rimsky-Korsakov) - Charles Dutoit & Orchestre Symphonique De Montreal
Shamanic Tales  - Astrix
Il Pastor Fido (Handel) - Trevor Pinnock & The English Concert
A thousand kisses deep - Till Bronner
Tin Pan Alley - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Save your love for me - Till Bronner
Changing Places - Tord Gustavsen
Piano Concerto in G Minor (Ravel) - Yuja Wang
Lute Suites (JS Bach) - Paul Galbraith
Liberty - Anette Askvik
I’ll never fall in love again (Burt Bacharach) Trijntje Oosterhuis & Leonardo Amuedo (guitar)
Blackbird (Paul Mccartney) - Trijntje Oosterhuis & Leonardo Amuedo (guitar)
Raindrop keep falling on my head (Hal David) - Trijntje Oosterhuis & Leonardo Amuedo (guitar)

Don Ellis, Rock Odyssey

Trumpet player who leads a jazz band and this chart will knock your socks off.

From the 70s end of good quality.

 

Chuck Mangione, main squeeze album is pretty awesome.