good sounding cd's

With your tastes, I think you would find:

Willy Porter - Across a Wire (live), superb

He is an amazing guitarist and kind of under the radar.

This CD always has me questioning my devotion to SACD as always a cleary superior medium.

Have Fun!

Check out some of Junior Wells Telarc releases

Back Door Slam - Roll Away - BEST recording of rock, plus fantastic blues/rock, and the singer/guitar player can actually sing!

Try:
Dave Matthews - Under the Table Dreaming
Bettye LaVette - I Got My Own Hell to Raise
Floratone - Floratone
Joss Stone - The Soul Sessions

and

Bruce Cockburn - Nothing but a Burning Light

Not sure if this last one is still being sold new, but it is a gem with Booker T. Jones, Jim Keltner, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Conner, T-Bone Burnett, Jackson Browne and Sam Phillips among others, with Burnett doing some sparse and haunting production work.

One last idea, the musical material on the Stereophile test CDs is fantastic and really well recorded. Make a custom CD of just the musical cuts and then sit back and explore what your system can do...

Dire Straits- On every Street
Alice in Chains- Unplugged.
We did this already.