What Are Your Reference Discs? or Specific Reference Tracks

Those 4 albums Vuch19 just mentioned are all audiophile classics and a must have in one form or another.
I suggest having at least one "One Mic recording" in your collection for perfect speaker placement.
The Visual Sound, the Sound Liaison DXD sampler is a good place to start; it's available at https://www.soundliaison.com/ as well as on https://soundliaison.bandcamp.com/

Another option is the excellent CD "Don't You Cry". also a one mic recording; https://carmengomes.bandcamp.com/

I want my system to play the music I love the best it can.  Why demo things you never listen to?
For me, I want to hear Eva Cassidy sing Woodstock, Dave Brubeck et.al. play Take Five and listen to the drummer, and of course The Allman Brother “Live at the Fillmore”.  One last test would be Pink Floyd DSOM.

If my system delivers on those (and it does to me), then all is good.

It seems to me that MC is the only one who answered the question accurately. Not because He agrees with me nor because I agree with him but because he spoke the truth. Instead of putting the focus on recordings that make our systems sound their best, we should be talking about how our systems make recordings sound their best. Every LP on my rack is a reference disc because I have a reference sound system.

It seems to me that MC is the only one who answered the question accurately. Not because He agrees with me nor because I agree with him but because he spoke the truth.

Except his first post was derisive of those who use reference tracks, and is contradictory to what he has written in the past when evaluating his system.

I posted a verbatim quote and thread link for reference.

So, perhaps it’s his perspective at the present time, but it’s inconsistent with his comment history.

A rare response to a guy who deserves none- you are wrong. As usual. You took that quote out of context. 

The quote is actually making my point, perfectly consistently. The context is explaining how my system, by pursuing exactly what I said- doing nothing but providing a crystal clear window into the recording- has allowed all these different recordings to shine. That’s why it mentions Ronstadt, etc. You latched onto one word- standard- which you try to make it seem like it means reference, when really all it means is common. I play it a lot. Go find the whole thing, post it, and apologize. Or not. I don’t care. There’s a reason I never respond to you, and it still stands. Bye now!