Hello All... I am looking for some suggestions as to your audition Lps.
Today I am auditioning two sets of interconnects for my TT: AudioQuest Columbia DBS and Colorado DBS . Previously I used IC Silver from Guerrilla Audio and stock IC. Thanks in adavance:zoom::zoom:

In no particular order:.....

Bach: Toccata & Fugue in D minor
Michael Murray, Organ
Telarc

David Sylvian: Secrets of the Beehive (excellent vocal recording)
Virgin

Boito: Prologue to Mefistofele - Final Psalmody
Atlanta Symph. Orch.
Atlanta Symph. Chorus
Telarc

Beethoven: Piano Sonata, Op. 111
Ivo Pogorelich
Deutsche Grammophon

Amanda McBroom: Dreaming
Gecko

Jennifer Warnes: Famous Blue Raincoat
Cypress
(thank God I have two perfect mint copies of this!!....it is an outstanding recording!!)

In no particular order:..

David Sylvian: Secrets of the Beehive (excellent vocal...

Thanks...forgot I had this:zoom::zoom:
However...the others are, minus JW, not in my library...not made my way to that genre as of now...but I am open to learn:music::

Michael Hedges "Live at the Double Planet" - very good mix of acoustic guitar and bass with complex riffs ranging from rock to jazz.

Paul Simon's "Grace Land" because the African drum and bass hits on some tracks will tell you a lot about the bottom range of your cartridge.

Saint-Sean Symphony #3 (organ symphony) on Philips. Not only is it an incredibly well mastered album, but it will work the begeezus out of your system and unveil ANY flaws with your set-up. When you're ready to work your way into the wonderful world of classical, there are some here (myself included I like to think) that can steer you in the right direction. Not only is classical as diverse as rock (Leo Sayer and Led Zeppelin in the same genre) but there are labels that did it well, and others that didn't. Best part about buying classical vinyl, is that it's so damn cheap, is usually in great shape (classical listeners weren't usually cutting lines on their LP's in the 80's) and there is so much out there.

Listening now, newly acquired Bruckner Symphony #1, cond. Bernard Haitink on Philips...this may make it to the test LP category.
Anyone that says that classical puts them to sleep hasn't been exposed to the right classical!!

James R.

In no particular order:.....

David Sylvian: Secrets of the Beehive (excellent vocal recording)
Virgin



One of my all time favorites, hauntingly beautiful. I don't have it on LP and envy you guys that do.


Current auditioning LPs

Phoebe Snow

The Blue Nile: Hats

The Band: Stage Fright

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

Beethoven Archduke Trio Ashkenazy, Perlman, Harrell
EMI Angel

Itzhak Pearman: Virtuoso Violinist
Angel

The English Chamber Orchestra
Columbia

Some that come to mind...

Charlie Byrd (eponymous 12" 45 rpm direct to disk white vinyl)
American Beauty Grateful Dead (MoFi)
Aja Steely Dan
The David Grisman Quintet (eponymous)
Waiting for Columbus Little Feat (MoFi)

[QUOTE=...steer you in the right direction. Not only is classical as diverse as rock (Leo Sayer and Led Zeppelin in the same genre) but there are labels that did it well, and others that didn't. Best part about buying classical vinyl, is that it's so damn cheap, is usually in great shape (classical listeners weren't usually cutting lines on their LP's in the 80's) and there is so much out there...[/QUOTE]

Thanks for input...I would appreciate starter titles any day. Classical genre is the only one, minus the obvious, I do not own...CD or other wise...
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Some that come to mind...

Charlie Byrd (eponymous 12" 45 rpm direct to disk white vinyl)
American Beauty Grateful Dead (MoFi)
Aja Steely Dan
The David Grisman Quintet (eponymous)
Waiting for Columbus Little Feat (MoFi)

Great selections... I will play many of them, as for now I have listened to:
Gary Lorus- Vagabonds -Mint
Sir Douglas Quintet-Mendocino- VG+-side A
Black Crowes-Warpaint- Mint-side A
Miles Davis-Lift To The Scaffold- NM
Duke Ellington-Ellington Uptown -NM- 6 eye/Grey label
Jethro Tull-Living in the Past- 70's Green

via the Columbia DBS interconnects and have switched to the Colorado DBS...
George

Nice to see Jethro Tull on there. Living In The Past one of my favs but don't have the LP. Othe good Tull:

This Was
Stand Up
Benefit

Nice to see Jethro Tull on there. Living In The Past one of my favs but don't have the LP. Othe good Tull:

This Was
Stand Up
Benefit

Agree, all of the above...in that order:music:

So far, I stick with what I know well. Beatle's Abbey Road often comes out, followed by Janis Joplin's 'Maybe' from Got them Ol Cozmic Blues Again Mama (I find each of my TTs/carts reacts differently to vocals and bass on this track), then 1812 Overture to round it out.

Lyle Lovett & His Large Band - Eponymous

ZZ Top - "El Loco"

Most anything by the Doobie Brothers..."It Keeps You Running" comes to mind.

I have this dorky album called "Wunjo" by Gil Reeves(sp?) that is new-agey, but sounds tremendous.

I had gone to my listening room, got a mental note, then my girlfriend, who is watching "Desperate Housewives" started plot exposition, unrequested by yours truly, and I forgot the others.

They sure can run them gums, huh fellas....:rant:

Oh, Van Halen - "Fair Warning" - the instrumental "One Foot Out the Door" has a killer Ludwig kit goin' on, plus funky synth...

Yup, yup.:thmbsp:

I use a double album titled 'Hi-Fi Test" - test material for amateurs and professionals
a 1973 issued album from Erato, the Netherlands (387.005/6)

Cocteau Twins ~ Victorialand
Original 4AD pressing @ 45 rpm

I also tend to use 12" singles rather than LPs

Mobile Fidelity, Eric Claptons "Slowhand", Moody Blues "Days of Future Passed"

First issue of Pink Floyds "Meddle",

War, "Greatest Hits" it's vinyl heaven man!

Vangelis "Heaven and Hell"

I have many more but these cover most of what I need to hear.:music:

Badfinger - Straight Up
Steely Dan - Gaucho
Dire Straits - Making Movies
Karla Bonoff - Karla Bonoff
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Trilogy

1. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedoes
2. ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
3. Sammy Hagar - Standing Hampton

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Madonna - Immaculate Collection

And then there's the Jazz

Bill Evans Trio - Waltz for Debbie
Sonny Rollins - Saxaphone Colossus
Dexter Gordon - Go

Jay

Some that come to mind...

Charlie Byrd (eponymous 12" 45 rpm direct to disk white vinyl)
American Beauty Grateful Dead (MoFi)
Aja Steely Dan

Strongly agree with these, particularly the Charlie Byrd LP (Crystal Clear label).

Would add the Telarc recordings of the Saint-Saens Organ Symphony and of Carmina Burana.

Also Joan Baez's Diamonds and Rust.