[Hernium]

Essentials - Bread & David Gates : A superbly mastered album that would sound absolutely seductive on the HE-1000s!

 

[Craig T]

Demons - Greensky Bluegrass (If Sorrows Swim)
Angel (Hendrix cover, fea. Amos Lee) - Wood Brothers (Loaded)
Lingus - Snarky Puppy (We Like It Here)

 

[vincent215]

Daft Punk - Give Life Back To Music

 

[goldendarko]

James Blake - Limit To Your Love (Cause Dat Bass!)

 

[acain]

Foo Fighters Wasting Light

Or

The original Star Wars music

 

[tonykaz]

Outstanding Virtuoso Violins, Piano, Voices :
 
Anne-Sophie Mutter playing Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy
 
Gene Harris playing the Steinway Grand Piano on: Listen Here!    Superb Jazz
 
Joshua Bell playing his Strad. Violin : Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor Op. 64
                                   and/or
playing Corigliano: Chaconne for Violin & Orchestra "The Red Violin"
 
 
Julia Fischer playing Sarasate: Spanische Tanze, Op 26 - Vito 
 
Martha Argerich playing Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra in D minor 
 
Montseraat Caballe and her daughter :  Two Voices, One Heart
 
 
Almost anything by the 5 Browns playing their Stienway Grand Pianos 
 
Plus something with plenty of well recorded Cymbals, I don't yet have anything in this area.  
 
Reference Recordings ( K.Johnson)  Berlioz Symphony Fantastique ,  March to the Scaffolds in particular. 
 
These are breath taking recordings that will stretch any System to it's limits and beyond, all are exemplary live performances that defy accurate electronic replications.
 
These violins mentioned above are all "tight" mic'ed capturing the near infinite detail of the famous Strads these Artists are performing with. 
Sennheiser discovered a method to "mic" and record the intricate harmonics of the Steinway Grands, the above recordings feature this technique.  
 
Tony in Michigan
 
ps.  Lang Lang playing Beethoven, Rachmaninov,Tchaikovsky,Mendelssohn all MUST be included.  Lang Lang is now imerging as our Finest Piano Virtuoso, his subtlety and phraising raise him above ecstasy levels expected from our formost performers, 5 Stars !  
 
ps. 2   Yundi Li playing Franz Liszt :  Piano Sonata in B Minor S178

 

[Mario_Fpolis]

Dreams - Joe Walsh - The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get - Audio Fidelity 24k gold compact disc
 
Somewhere in Beetween - Aerial - Kate Bush
 
Running Hard - Turn of the Cards - Renaissance
 
Duende - Black Light Syndrome - Bozzio, Levin & Stevens
 
Samba - Dizzy Gillespie no Brasil com Trio Mocotó - Biscoito Fino 
 
Back Where I Started - Already Free - The Derek Trucks Band
 
Message to a Friend - Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) - Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny
 
Cause We've Ended As Lovers - Blow by Blow - Jeff Beck
 
Midnight in Harlem - Revelator - Tedeschi Trucks Band

 

[C.C.S.]

Tegan and Sara - Knife Going In
 
Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
 
Talib Kweli - Gutter Rainbows
 
Jack White - Lazaretto -or- Black Bat Licorice
 
Duke Ellington and John Coltrane - Take the Coltrane
 
Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Power of Equality
 
Danny Elfman - Pretty much anything from Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack
 
These selections represent a variety of different genres and different levels of recording quality, with regards to dynamic range, equalization and other aspects of mixing and mastering. A couple of these are marginal recordings, though not terrible. A couple are good, and most of the Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack is pretty great, so I feel that these represent at least a small sample of good test tracks to determine how headphones handle different material.

 

[EdmontonCanuck]

Allan Taylor's "Wheels of Fortune" (Stockfisch Records).

 

[GREQ]

• Hot Chip - Over and over
• Eric Clapton (Unplugged) - Tears in Heaven
• Ratatat - Neckbrace
• Muse - Micro Cuts (Hullabaloo Live)

 

[Audio 1]

Hope Waits - Get Behind The Mule

 

[kevin634]

John Frusciante - The Empyrean
Matthew Good - Born Losers
RJD2 - Ghostwriter
Pretty Lights - Around the Block
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Tamacun
Tycho - L
Digitalism - Idealistic
dZihan & Kamien - Stiff Jazz

 

[reeltime]

"So What" Miles Davis
 
"Scheherazade" Living Stereo
 
"Couldn't Stand the Weather" SRV

 

[bassboysam]

Grails - Deep Politics

 

[tf1216]

I have two songs that I must try on all audio systems.  If both songs move me emotionally and physically (out of my seat) something is being done RIGHT!
 
"A Trace of Grace" (DSD) download (free below)
http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue64/hfs1.htm
 
and 
 
Eric Clapton - "Old Love" from the 24 Night Nights Live at Albert Hall album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7yrxVJ_90k -> the song on the CD is slightly different