Establishing a common analog listening bias

Sounds good to me.
The Eagles album would have been one of my suggestions in the Rock/Pop department anyway.

Is this list limited to common album pressings, or are Reference Recordings or Acoustic Sound and other "premiere" labels also to be included? Same question for 45RPM vs 33RPM?

I ask because some of my premiere/specialty recording disks are just absolutely stellar and completely blow away my more common records. Two particularly come to mind:

88 Basie Street
Ray Brown Trio - Soular Energy

As for the more common albums I would recommend:

many by Cat Stevens
Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries
Friday Night in San Francisco (McLaughlin, DeMeola, DeLucia)

Bob

Hi Bob,

as far as I am concerned, I am fine with every suitable record which is READLY AVAILABLE NEW and to everyone.

Thanks, D.

Dear friends: I just have a very good experience that confirm the necessity to have this " common ground " by ourself.

Making a small change in our tonearm design I test the " old " prototype against the " new " with that small change on it. As always I made it with my " common ground " recordings/tracks, the change was so " tiny " that after the Janis Ian recordings everything the same ( at least I can't detect differences in the performance. ) but when I run the Eagles one at the very first stroke on the percussion the " difference " comes alive, I run the Patricia Barber where there were almost no diffrence.

I'm talking here of very tiny changes that fortunately for me I can dettect through that " common ground " recordings. It is not only to have a high resolution audio system with a near perfect set up but to have the software and to know what looking for.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Not so easy is it?

:-))))