Your One "Go To" Recording

My record of choice is Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition, performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Ricardo Muti on MFSL LP 1-520. This record posseses one of the most lifelike reproductions of orchestral music on record I have ever heard, and excels at revealing any flaws in a system's reproduction of string tone, dynamics, and soundstaging.

What a terrific thread. Well done Tvad!

This is a tough one, but I'd have to say

Astral Weeks - van Morrison

Of course this changes from time to time but right now it's k.d. lang's "Hymms of the 49th Parallel."

Chick Corea - Return to Forever

Mingus AH UM. I did this last night when I couldn't decide what to play.