Best Music For Testing Your Audio System and Impressing Your Ears

Everyone seems to have their own list of "audiophile" recordings for testing their system or impressing their friends.

Some examples include:
Personally, I'm more interested in impressing my ears than I am in impressing friends. And I'm certainly not interested in listening to music that I don't enjoy. 

I thought I would start my own list of albums and tracks that meet the following criteria:
  • I like them
  • They are great for testing system components
  • They are great for testing system setup
  • They have impressive dynamics
Albums:
  • Dire Straits: Brothers In Arms
  • Flim & The BB's: Big Notes, TriCycle, Neon, Tunnel
  • AMM: Newfoundland
  • Norah Jones: 
  • James Taylor: Never Die Young
  • Kitaro:
  • Cowboy Junkies:
  • Talking Heads: Speaking In Tongues 
  • Ani DiFranco: Not So Soft, Ani DiFranco
  • Erich Kunzel: Time Warp
  • Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells
  • Phillip Glass: 
  • Steve Winwood: Back In The Highlife
  • The B-52's: Cosmic Thing
  • Nine Inch Nails: Pretty Hate Machine
  • Peter Gabriel: So, New Blood
  • Pink Floyd: 
  • Brian Eno: Thursday Afternoon
  • Tracy Chapman:
  • Sade: Diamond Life
  • Meg Mac: 
  • Dua Lipa: Live Acoustic
  • Brooklyn Rider: 
  • Nina Simone: Pastel Blues
  • Lorde: 
  • Beach House:
  • Alicia Keys: 
  • Roger Waters:
  • Tori Amos:
  • Alt-J:
  • Kaleo: 
  • Daft Punk:
  • Morcheeba: Blood Like Lemonade
  • The Chemical Brothers
  • Kygo:
  • Goldfrapp: 
  • Don Henley:
  • Amy Winehouse:
  • Adele:
  • Sia: 
  • Anushka Shankar: 
  • Radiohead: 
  • Anne Sofie von Otter Meets Elvis Costello: Baby Plays Around
  • Holly Cole: Temptation
  • Beck:
  • Bella Fleck:
  • Lindsey Sterling:
  • Bonobo:

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