Establishing a common analog listening bias

Hi: I forgot. the " common ground " recordings/tracks IMHO has to be that when these tracks are on target any other recording ( same VTA ) are at its best always.

Those reference tracks only could be taking like references when ( like Dertonarm says. )the tonearm/cartridge geometry is almost " perfect " on set-up where an out of target " parameter " can/could be hear/heard it.
Other important factor is that those precise details that we choose on each track must be of several kind: a hard to hear( distinguish. ) ones, natural sounding ones, precise and defined and with different " colors " trying to cope both frequency extremes.

There are other factors that could help but I think that those that I posted are good to start.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

So, is someone going to actually pull together a demo CD of the tracks and make it available?

(ha, ha ... that was supposed to be a joke for all you analogue nuts)

Bob

Great report Raul! Thank you very much.

Hi,
So, what then about "Tequila sunrise" and sibilance distortion?
Would that be part of the test scenario?
A.

Hi Axel,
sibilance distortion is a very common phenomenon in a lot of set-ups AND on a lot of records.
What we need, are records which can be tracked WITHOUT sibilance distortion, but only if aligned perfectly.
Usually - if not recording-inherent - sibilance distortion are the result of miss-alignment of either (or most likely both...) cartridge or tonearm.
And yes - don't have to be Tequila Sunrise... - we do need in specific one or two records which can provide just this particular "test bench".
I am still working on the list of classical picks, but will provide them soon - too much "real world" work right now...