[quote user="Simon Lucas"][quote user="BigGuads"]Why do people always choose well produced stuff [/quote]
<P>Because well-produced recordings are generally more revealing of a system's strengths and weaknesses. I'd sooner listen to The Skatalites than Pink Floyd in my own home, but Pink Floyd will tell you more about your system than some ropey-sounding Jamaican recordings from 40-odd years ago.</P>[/quote]
Pink Floyd may well tell you about the 'hi-fi' aspects of the 'sound', but a good system should make better sense of music and make the music more enjoyable, that's the yardstick I use, not 'how clear is the cough at the beginning of Wish you were here?'...
If you listen to the Skatalites then why not use that as a test disc? If you enjoy it more on system B compared to System A then, by my definition, System B is better... To hell with hifi mumbo jumbo phrases like 'noise floor', 'soundstage', 'imaging' and whathaveyou. If you enjoy it more, it's better. Simple as...