If its a guest who knows nothing about audio, I always ask them what kind of music they enjoy. If they answer: "Oh, just about anything," I just quietly turn the system off and say ... hey, why don't we go to Baskin Robbins for an ice cream cone?"
Most folks are familiar with the human voice. I like to demo ballad singers from the 50’s like June Christy’s "Something Cool," Jo Stafford’s recording she did with Art VanDamme, Doris Day’s "Day by Day ... or Chris Connor’s "All About Ronnie." .
If you notice, all the above are mono albums that were never issued in stereo. Mono recordings just seem to reproduce the great naturalness of the human voice. Modern recording engineers tend to strong arm the digital reverb dial too much for my taste, making it sound as though the artist is singing from the inside of a cave.
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