Ear Candy: Most startling recordings.

Especially the kazoo solos on the cut "Accidents"..not to mention car wreck sound effects...Brainticket's "Cottonwood Hill" is more psyched-out ear candy.

Lots of Dead & Floyd can be ear candy. If you really want to stretch your system, get Don Dorseys Bachbusters put out by Telarc

Alison Krause--Forget about it. Listed as bluegrass but don't let that turn you away. Excellent recording and wonderful vocals. Highly recomended.

Angelique Kidjo "Oremi". If the soundstage doesn't go outside your speakers on her cover of "Voodoo Child" your system needs tweaking or upgrades.

1. Shelly Manne & Jack Marshall - "Sounds Unheard Of"
Acoustic guitar and percussion on Analogue Productions vinyl.

2. Mikey Hart - "Dafos" (whole CD/LP)
Unreal percussion and sounds. Eerie kind of stuff. So far outside the speakers it's in your neighbors yard. Especially when he/they start using non-drums to make percussion sounds in the right side of the soundtsage. Banging metal pipes and stuff. A whole lot of fun.

3. Dianne Schuur - "Somewhere over the Rainbow". From her "Music in Me" CD. Breathtaking acapella, center stage, brings a smile to my face and goosebumps every time it's played. First cut I placed on my test CD. Ear candy in a different way.

4. Isley Brothers 12" "Eighth Wonder of the World". Talk about sounds all over the place. Especially the jamaican influenced dub mix. Un-freaking real percussion and Ernie Isley on guitar moving all over the place all the time.