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Establishing a common analog listening bias

Maybe it is possible to establish a widely accepted common ground in terms of listening bias by choosing and agreeing on 10-30 LPs all readily available new to all audiophiles for decent price.
If all listening tests and personal comments regarding the sound of components and systems in the various threads and posts would refer to any of these LPs mainly, everyones comments and experiences would much easier be understood by their fellow Audiogoners.

How about an "Audiogon baker's double-dozen"?

This would create a solid ground for all of us.

How do you think about this ?
dertonarm
dertonarm OP
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Viridian, while I do not share your opinion nor would say that you understood my proposal correctly (neither in intend nor content), I agree - with the experience of the past year here on Audiogon... - that there is hardly any intention to agree no matter how obvious a given thing/concept/consequence may be.
In reverse it rather seems that the all present chance and option to deny out of personal preferences and intentions is an omnipresent force in audiophile online discussions. A force few can resist to use. Somehow haunted by the ghost of Mephistofeles who claimed and named himself the "spirit of negation".
peterayer
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Dertonarm,
I, for one, appreciate your efforts in this thread and was hoping that it would lead to some kind of list that we could use to discuss sonics and systems. However, the thread died about a year and a half ago. Why not tally the results, make a list and use it as originally intended? Call it Dertonarm's List or something.

Those members who are not interested, need not be involved. The Audiogon Analog forum could be the host location for discussion. Perhaps a list of 25 or so currently available LPs is sufficient, or ten LPs in each of three or four genres.

What do you think?
dertonarm OP
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Dear Peterayer, your suggestion is worth musing about. I will have some spare time over the christmas holidays and will prepare a list of my favorite records used for exploring the sonic abilities of components.
Cheers,
D.
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atmasphere
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Partial list:

Depth of soundstage: The Wand of Youth, EMI

Depth of Bass: Zoon - Fields of the Nephilim (LP, Begger's Banquet BEGA172) (1st track, side 3, bass goes sub-sonic
alternate: Saint-Saens Organ Symphony, w/Louis Fremeaux cond., EMI

Dynamic Range/trackability: Paranoid, Black Sabbath on white label German Vertigo.
alternate: Verdi Requiem, RCA Soria box. track: Dies Irae

Either LP puts most stereos on their knees in a few seconds.

Most LPs by the Atrium Musicae de Madrid on Harmonia Mundi are good for staging and detail.

Ability of a system to resolve detail within high energy vocals: Village Music of Bulgaria, Nonsuch. Field recording of exceptional merit. If your system has problems this recording will sound like hell.
peterayer
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Atmasphere,
Thank you for the suggestions. Are those LPs readily available as new issues or must one track them down on Ebay?
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