What are your audiophile recordings for system evaluation and setup?

Yeah that’s me too having been a classical musician for so many years. Fortunately that’s changing. My son, also a violinist and graduated from Juilliard with M.M. a couple of months ago, had an “improvisation for classical musicians” class his last year.

A fun aside: the prof was a jazz saxophonist—he’s in the SNL band, usually you can see him at the left of the host in the front, balding guy.

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Sheesh, what a thread. I couldn’t listen to all this before I die. But I guess I could die trying. One album I’ve turned to for incredible midrange is James Taylor’s Hourglass. There’s something about the way the midrange “fits” within the entire spectrum, but also delivers amazing presence.

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The DALI CD’s - in admiration of music (dali-speakers.com)
Audiophile Speaker Set-Up - NativeDSD Music