Showcase songs and albums for a digital audio system?

[lattiboy]

Kraftwerk have remastered all their old tapes at Kling Klang which sound good,
King Crimson remasters by Steve Wilson & Mr Fripp are nice.
Abbey Road Studios Beatles remasters circa 2009 had Sir Paul's stamp of approval (not so keen on the 50th anniv. Giles Martin remasters).
Bob Ludwig's late 60's early 70's Rolling Stones ABKCO remasters are brilliant.
Bob Ludwig's Talking Heads greatest hits. (I wish he'd remaster their whole catalogue)
Buena Vista Social Club, especially the title track to hear an old Cuban piano creaking away. Best piano recording I've heard.
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

Good call on the Buena Vista recommendation! Listening to it now and that is one amazingly recorded piano!

 

[lattiboy]

I’ll add some more:

Stufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Anderson.Pak - 6 Summers
Sun Araw - Horse Steppin’
Kyle Dixon - Euology
Anna Calvi - Don’t Beat the Girl Outta my Boy
Daniel Lanois- Frozen
Breakbot - Mystery
Sylvan Esso - Hey Mami
FKA Twigs - Two Weeks
Bonnie Prince Billy - My Home is the Sea
La Santa Cecillia - Dream
M83 - Midnight City

 

[BlackHoleBam]

Hey, this is a good suggestion. Seconded.

PS: IMO a lot of METAL gets overlooked (read: ignored) re: lists of music titles that are useful for "system" testing.

Ain’t no doubt. It’s an incredible album

A very well-produced album. The drums are a treat.

The drummer Danny Carey is a tank. Unreal.

 

[Mystic]

Ain’t no doubt. It’s an incredible album

I'd go as far as to call that LP formidable.

PS: And now I think I'll pop it on -- I haven't listened to it in many months.

 

[stoutblock]

Jem - Finally Woken, will show off a digital system quite nicely.

Also most Black Keys and Radiohead albums.

 

[BlackHoleBam]

I'd go as far as to call that LP formidable.

PS: And now I think I'll pop it on -- I haven't listened to it in many months.

I may as well before I pine away. What source do you have it on?

 

[Mystic]

I may as well before I pine away. What source do you have it on?

FLAC @ PC > DAC > Cans

 

[BlackHoleBam]

FLAC @ PC > DAC > Cans

Pardon my ignorance. What are cans?

 

[Mystic]

Pardon my ignorance. What are cans?

Sorry - headphones.

 

[Crazy Gnome]

And what kind of cans?

 

[BlackHoleBam]

My Acronym bank went haywire trying to figure that out hahaha

 

[Crazy Gnome]

Tom Petty -Highway Companion and Mojo
Pearl Jam- Ten remastered
Santana- Abraxas 24 bit remaster
Rush- Moving Pictures remaster
Santana- Borbeletta 24 bit

 

[BlackHoleBam]

These are good Albums all the way through.

Superunknown - Soundgarden

Blood Sugar Sex Majik - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Dysfunction - Staind

Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park (Believe it or not it’s good all the way through too)

 

[Johnno_Oz]

Adding another one, equal to Daft Punk's Random Access Memories.

Frankie goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome.

More a showcase of producer Trevor Horn & session musicians going nuts , apparently Frankie & the boys weren't that good.