Is her a post of this? Well if not,

I use this ones on Vinyl

Pat Metheny Group - Offramp
Twenny nine feat Lenny White - Fancy dancer
Jon Anderson - Hold on to love (on his 1988 Album)
Donna Summer - Love to love you
Ashford And Simpson - Stay free album
Matrix and Fierce - Tightrope

there are more but this ones never let me down.:music:

In both Vinyl and CD formats:

Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Dire Straits - Love over Gold
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Paco di Lucia, Al di Meola & John Mclaughlin - Friday Night in S. Francisco

In CD format only:

Archie Shepp & Horace Parlan - Two of a mind
Keith Jareth - The Koln Concert

On vinyl, "Gaucho" by Steely Dan.

Jo Mamma "J is for Jump"
Janis Ian "Breaking Silence"
Restless Heart "Greatest Hits " CD
"Black Grape" Rev. Horton Heat (bass!)

growing Up In Hollywood Town (Lincoln Mayorga and Amanda McBroom) :music:

Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus

On vinyl of course :)

Steve Winwood-'Arc Of A Diver' on vinyl

Steve Winwood-'Arc Of A Diver' on vinyl

Just picked that record up-going on TT next

Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" is on my list too. I also use Herbie H. "Maiden Voyage" TooL's "10'000 Days" has some fabulous attack and decay. Also terrific fingers sliding on bass guitar strings.

T-Bone Burnett self-titled
Fine Young Cannibals self-titled
Colourbox 12" single of "The Moon is Blue"

The Plastic Ono Band, "Live Peace in Toronto, 1969", the Yoko cuts...

Clannad II (cheap US reissue)
The Beggars Opera on French Harmonia Mundi
Witches' Brew, RCA LSC-2225 (not a reissue)

Er, vinyl, of course.

Saint Saens Organ Symphony. The only way to test out a sub-woofer.

I like to use my 180g copy of Supertramp Breakfast in America.

I like to use my 180g copy of Supertramp Breakfast in America.

:thmbsp::thmbsp::thmbsp:

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After Bathing at Baxter's -- Jefferson Airplane, a muddy mix (early eight-track console), but I've been listening to this since it first came out (mono, stereo LPs, eight-tracks, cassettes, CDs). I KNOW how it can sound on good, bad, and great systems.


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Care-Charming Sleep -- John Potter/The Dowland Project
Simply a stunning recording that only a top-notch system can reveal the subtleties and nuances of the performance and engineering.

I have two.
1) Memory Pain/ Johnny Winter.
Before the guitar comes in at the very begining and if the arm on your TT is dead on you can hear Johnny cough.
2) Bridge of Sighs/ Robin Trower
At the beginning of the song the guitar comes in on the right and slowly moves left getting louder and louder in volume and elevates to the top of your speakers. The bells also have no smear either and hangs in space.

For plain listening a few of mine would be;
Bloody Tourist/10 CC
Mosquitos/ Stan Ridgway
Anything with Bobby Hutcherson on vibes.

kansas "song for america"
steely dan "aja"
heart "greatest hits live"

all used to test the woofers.

then the first marshall tucker album i grab to test voice

Jean luc ponty-
Cosmic messenger!

The Plastic Ono Band, "Live Peace in Toronto, 1969", the Yoko cuts...

Well, that would indeed be a "test" for many folks. :D

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Peter Gabriel -"So" -orig. pressing
Sonny Rollins -"Way Out West" -reissue
Lynyrd Skynyrd -"Pronounced" orig. pressing is the best.
JS Bach -Brandenburg Concerto on an ERATO pressing.

here

UK's debut lp (vinyl, natch!)

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UK's debut lp (vinyl, natch!)

Great record,I have danger money on vinyl too :yes:

For bass, I put on Holly Cole's "Temptation" record, and play the 1st cut on side 3, "Tango Til They're Sore" The album is comprised of Tom Waits' songs. I very much like it.

The Plastic Ono Band, "Live Peace in Toronto, 1969", the Yoko cuts...

:lmao::puke:

I'm going to assume that was sarcasm, but if not, the puking smiley was meant for Yoko's voice, and not your taste in music. I have that disc on vinyl too, but it rarely gets played, particularly those cuts.:no:

I second Dark Side of the Moon

I second Dark Side of the Moon
And I third it and add Frank Zappa-Apostrophe (vinyl) and From Rats to Riches-Good Rats (vinyl) I know both of these note for note, and know how they should sound.
Another good one is Kosmos by Tomita.

I'm with PM here.....there's nothing like an album that you kmow every nuance of.
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some of my other favorites - especially for testing bass responce are:

Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy
ELP - Tank
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound