What albums to test your Hi-Fi

[Clarkey_71]

These tracks pretty much tick all my musical boxes and are what I would normally use to demo equipment.
The Who - Who's Next (Baba O'reily & Behind blue eyes)
The Who - Tommy (Overture)
Frank Sinatra - It was a very good year
Lenny Kravitz - Let love rule (freedom train)
Red hot chilli peppers - Bloodsugar (funky monks)
Led Zep 1 (babe I'm gonna leave you)
Mike Oldfield - Tubular bells (parts of side one)
Crosby, Stills & Nash - You don't have to cry
Pink Floyd - Dark side (Us & them)

 

[tonky]

If it's Crosby,Stills and Nash it just has to be Suite Judy Blue Eyes off that first album. Such harmonies

 

[Trefor Patten]

Cassandra Wilson-Blue Moon Daughter

Patricia Barber-Nightclub

Arild Andersen-Hyperborean

Eberhard Weber-Pendulum

Pat Metheny-Secret Story

and anything by Pentangleÿ

 

[Anonymous]

Cassandra Wilson now there is a lady who knows a thing or two about jazz. She has some class albums.

 

[Anonymous]

I.D.C.:
lydgate,Your choice of music is very good. BUT and it's a "BIG BUT" The production on these albums are not the best. I have them also. You might not agree which is fair enough just my opinion. The original poster should take the music he likes the most. Music he knows very well is important. Not new sounds to him.

You may well be right, I'm just saying I test with albums that I know very well and enjoy. I'm interested that you don't think that Talking Heads aren't well produced -- do you just think that album isn't well produced, or that Brian Eno isn't a good producer? What do you think of the albums he did with Roxy Music (Roxy Music, For Your Pleasure) or the albums he did with David Bowie (Low, 'Heroes', Lodger)? What about his album with Byrne (My Life in the Bush of Ghosts)?

I think all those albums sound very good and it never occurred to me that they weren't well produced -- but maybe that's just a problem with my hifi 😛

 

[jubair]

I'm not too bothered about production, I tend to choose something from each genre of music I listen to and albums I've listened to a lot so I'm familiar with the music. I auditioned some speakers yesterday and chose the spendor a5's in the end.

The music I used to test them was:

ghostface 'supreme clientele'

weezer 'pinkerton'

david bowie 'low'

interpol ' turn on the bright lights'

air france 'no way down'

michale mayer 'immer'