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

For live jazz:

Bill Frissell 

Album: East West 

Track: Boubacar

Phish sigma Oasis 

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 .

. . . since I bought a SACD player, I have found some of the Dire Straits SACDs to sound fantastic, and I assume that by streaming you are listening to at least the same quality DSD if not better? From Love Over Gold, Telegraph Road about took my breath away the first time I heard the SACD version. The self titled Dire Straits is one I’d probably play to show some one the best of my SACDs, and although Sultans Of Swing is what originally turned me on to Dire Straits way way way back when, I’d say that Six Blade Knife or Down To The Waterline or Water Of Love would probably be what I’d play.

I’d say that Six Blade Knife or Down To The Waterline or Water Of Love would probably be what I’d play.

+1 for the above and add in Walk in the Westend.

Also Homeless from Paul Simons Graceland , just to behold Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Or anything from this fab engineered and recorded album.