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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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.

 

Several of the MTV "Unplugged" recordings, stripped down acoustic (mostly) and usually very well recorded: Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots (hard to find MTV UK), Eric Clapton, 10,000 Maniacs, Lauryn Hill, Oasis, Florence and the Machine, Rod Stewart, Pearl Jam, Alanis Morissette, etc