Please- No more Tin Pan Alley


I love Axpona.  I go every year and it's great to actually hear the equipment and meet the designers that you read about.  But the music selection is sometimes not the best.  I like a wide range of music.  I'm not adverse to hearing anything(well maybe not Rap). There are a lot of rooms to cover.  Most people want to listen for 5 or 10 minutes to get a feel for the sound of the system and possibly purchase one of the components.  Please, vendors play a few minutes of a variety of music so people can see how the system sounds with different music.  How's the bass, the vocals, the dynamics, etc?  They should play selections for no more than 2-3 minutes and move on.  I know it's more difficult with a turntable- but still.  Nothing more aggravating than going into a room and listening to a song you don't like for 15 minutes.  And PLEASE- no more Tin Pan Alley by Stevie Ray Vaughan. And I like SRV.  That song is WAY overplayed.  It is so well recorded it would sound good on a transistor radio. It tells the consumer nothing about the system.
jackmonster
For gear comparison purposes there's actually something to be said for hearing many rooms play a track you are ridiculously familiar with so you can discern the sometimes subtle differences between rooms.  I approach the listening rooms more diagnostically in order to compare gear than going to enjoy the music.  I listen to my system at home or go out for a live show if my goal is to just enjoy great music.  
I always take a compilation CD of music I'm very familiar with. If the opportunity arises, I always ask the person demonstrating the equipment to play a cut from that CD. Most are more than willing to abide by the request. 

Frank
Listen, there is elevator music, and there is Tin Pan Alley, by SRV. I disagree, as it is an excellent example of a great song, a great recording, and, by a great artist. It has been one of my references for years, and it easily, and quickly, helps me identify problems and virtues of any new system or component I am evaluating.
I hear you brother. While it's an excellent record, there are many more excellent sounding records. We, (the audiophile community) need to expose the other excellent sounding records.