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Recommendations for really well-recorded music for high-end audio system demo

I’m using my system to give some local high-end audio demos for fun, and although I have a good selection of tracks I can always use more and am sure you guys have some great ones out there.  First and foremost I’m looking for really well-recorded material that shows off what a good system can do — you know, the “wow your friends” tracks we all have, and if it happens to be good/fun music as well that’s a nice bonus although not necessarily a requirement.  I’d recommend listing the artist, album, and track so it’s easier to find the right version, and if you feel like elaborating on anything notable that makes it particularly good for a demo that’d be helpful/interesting but not necessary.  As an example…

  • Patricia Barber, Companion, “Like JT” — Great live jazz club vibe, fun instrumental with excellent imaging/depth/3D soundstage.

Thanks for anything ya got!

soix
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dekay
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Ry Cooder's "A Meeting by the River" is well recorded (as are many of his offerings).

 

DeKay

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jbuhl
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For Neo-Medieval Voice:

Vox Clamantis , Music by Henrik Odegaard. Recorded at the St Nicholas Dome Church Haapsalu Estonia

 

description of Odegaards compositions "Elements of Microtonality"

mashif
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For live jazz:

Bill Frissell 

Album: East West 

Track: Boubacar

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phishhhhh4
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Phish sigma Oasis 

immatthewj
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I especially enjoy two Cowboy Junkies Cds that made it to SACD, but I assume you are streaming. The Trinity Sessions (the SACD was Analogue Productions) and although their cover of Sweet Jane (off that disc) is what turned me on to the CJ, I suppose I’d say start with the opening track (Mining For Gold) and stay with it as it transitions into Misguided Angel. I am not as crazy about the MFSL SACD of Whites Off Earth Now (also by CJ) as I am about Trinity, but I think it may actually have a bit better of a sound--almost holographic to my poor abused ears. Maybe try their covers of Me And The Devil or Decoration Day?  They also cover Mr. State Trooper on that CD, which is a song I really like, and I like the way they covered it, but maybe it doesn't have as many sonic attributes as some of the other material.

I guess the whole thing about both of those CDs is how they were single miked when recorded .

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