Establishing a common analog listening bias

The notion of music we all could become familiar with and use as reference sounds like an excellent idea. I no longer listen to vinyl though, do you suppose any high quality media would work?

Well I just reread your post and you were specific to analog. Too bad Agon doesn't allow post deletion.
Still a good idea.

Dertonarm,
I think this is a wonderful idea. If this catches on, I am sure that I will be introduced to some great, well-recorded music - both to listen to and to form a reference for discussion.

Let me be the first to nominate an LP: Muddy Waters, "Folk Singer" or Cannonball Aderly, "Somethin Else".
Peter

This is just the type of reductive sentiment that leads to people with $40,000 systems and fifty records. Most of them Diana Krall and Holly Cole. To properly get the feel for a system, the maximum number of records should be used for evaluation and those should be ones that you like. This common ground idea really makes no sense.

To take Pererayer's example of "Something Else", I could be talking about the 45RPM reissue, you could be talking about a first BN pressing, the next person could have a King Super Analog Japanese pressing and someone else could have the 90s digitally sourced reissue. Other than agreeing that this is one fine bit of playing, we are not apt to learn much else. Then again, we could all buy yet another copy and all have the same one, and still no one would agree on anything.

Dertonarm
I think your concept is a good one ,you mentioned this on another thread and I for one would participate.

I'm thinking out loud, a possible fly in the ointment....If it gets off the ground I'm confident you will hear from those with original first release or a better re-pressing that smokes the currant re-issue used for evaluation.
This will have to be established first.

I see already Viridian has brought this point up.