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What songs (w/ artist) do you all use to really show off or enjoy your Klipsch Speaker Setup?


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Some good recommendations so far. Here is what I usually use:

Audio --

Stevie Ray Vaughn -- Little Wing

Steely Dan -- Aja

Rush -- Tom Sawyer

Supertramp -- School

Melvins -- It's Shoved

Killing Joke -- Inside the Termite Mound

Audio/Video --

Peter Gabriel -- Red Rain and The Barry Williams Show (Growing Up Live)

Blue Man Group -- I Feel Love (The Complex Live)

Dave Matthews Band -- Intro/Pantala Naga Pamba/Stay and Long Black Veil (Listener Supported)

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Here are my favourite CDs for system test:

Steely Dan - Two Against Nature

Donald Fagan - Karmakiriad

Brian Setzer Orchestra - Brian Setzer Orchestra

Herbie Hancock - Future Shock

Metallica - Load

Lee Ritenour - Wes Bound

Steely Dan - Two Against Nature, absolutely!

Donald Fagin - another absolutely without a doubt

Additional showoff-y stuff:

Herbie Hancock - Gershwin's World

Flim and the BB's - Big Notes

Billy Barber (pianist from Flim & BBs) - Light House

Diana Krall - The Look in Your Eyes

Linda Rohndstat & Nelson Riddle Orchestra - Lush Life

DM

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I like to start off with Enya's Watermark.

Yes Live at the House of Blues

Kansas Device,Voice,Drum

Pink Floyd The Wall (MFSL version)

Al Stewart Year of the Cat (MFSL version)

Supertramp Crime of the Century (MFSL version)

Dreamtheater Octavarium

Pink Floyd Wish you were Here (CBS Half Speed Master)

the rest is up to the listener.

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Artist/Song:

Muse - "Absolution"

Snow Patrol - "Run"

Coldplay - "The Scientist"

Death Cab For Cutie - "Expo '86"

Killswitch Engage - "When Darkness Falls"

Diana Krall - "Almost Blue"

Radiohead - "Paranoid Android"

Billie Holiday - "I'm A Fool To Want You"

Nightwish - "Creek Mary's Blood"

Avenged Sevenfold - "Seize The Day"

The Snake The Cross The Crown - "The Field of Lus"

Alkaline Trio - "Time To Waste"

Dredge - "Bug Eyes"

Miles Davis - "Freddie Freeloader"

Rachmaninoff - "Symphony No. 2 in C Minor"

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A lot of what I use is listed but I can add a few

Dream Theater-Images and Words

Charlotte Martin-On Your Shore

Trans Siberian Orchestra-Christmas Eve and Other Stories

Trans Siberian Orchestra-The Lost Christmass Eve

Lacuna Coil-Coma Lies

Antigone Rising-From the Ground Up

AC/DC-Back in Black remastered

Pink Floyd-Dark Side of The Moon SACD 5.1

Diana Krall-Kive in paris DVD

Godsmack-Changes DVD-drun solo

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Great little thread going here.

here's some of mine.

Audio:

Kind of Blue, Miles Davis multi-channel SACD

Take Five, Dave Brubeck multi-channel SACD

Horace Silver, Song for My Father, Stereo CD using DDPLIIx

Some great old vinyl, using Digital Dolby PLIIx

Hush Hush, Seagall Schwall Blues Band

JJ Cale, Naturally

4 Way Street, CSN&Y

J Geils, Full House

DVD Video

Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival in DTS (Very impressive!)

Eagles Hell Freezes Over in DTS (incredible sound detail)

Steely Dan, Two Against Nature in DTS

Moody Blues, Live at the Royal Albert Hall with full orchestra (Yahoo!)

Woodstock (for old times sake)



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I prefer to let the guest bring over their own songs that they are

already familiar with (which typically results in them enjoying their

music that much more). But when asked to play my own stuff I like to

play some Nightwish and Celldweller....Nightwish is for the crystal

clearness and celldweller is for some bass sequences that just thrash

the woofers around.

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Try Led Zeppelin's remastered Kashmir or the live No Quarter ripping out of a pair of Cornwalls for pure nirvana.

Yes, Siberian Khatru

Deep Purple- anything featuring Jon Lord's B3Hammond Organ, you can hear the tubes distort and key click sounds in the lower registers are awesome.

Rick Wakeman- anything- pure lush rock and roll!

Who, Entwistle's bass just explodes in 5:15, and the song features Rabbit's great piano licks and great hrn section. Lots of little goodies that absolutely SLAM you back in your seat.

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I agree with Dr Who . I give my guests the option of bringing their own music or picking out something I have that they want to hear . If they leave it to me , I start them off with something sweet like Norah Jones - Don't Know Why , or George Winston - The Music Of Linus And Lucy , " I love the old Charlie Brown stuff ". I then show em' the horns , ( pun intended ) with the live version of AC/DC's - Back In Black . When Brian Johnson is addressing the audience you get the feeling that this isn't going to be so loud , but on the little guitar warm up it feels like the air is being sucked out of the room and then , WHAM ! AC/DC Live for real !

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Q-sound recording are impressive

* Madonna - Immaculate Collection

* Roger Waters

I have a sampler disk as well:

Female vocals = Sarah, Sinead, etc.

Modern Jazz with drums and guitar - Fourplay

Blues - Stevie Ray

Classical violins - Carmin

Jazz sax -

Acoustic guitar - Eric Clapton "tears in heaven"

A good sample of different sounds.

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Having someone bring their own is better to "show off", after all I took my own cd's to the stereo store when I was shopping around, It's a lot easier to hear the tone if you know the song. so anyways.. here's the list.

Acid Bath...scream of the butterfly

Bloodsimple...falling backwards

Tool...crawl away

Machine Head...burn my eyes

Morbid Angel..where the slime lives

Blind Melon...sleepyhouse

Deicide...to be dead

311..amber

Metalica...blitzkreig

On vynil

Vison of Disorder..resurecting reality EP

Willie Nelson..stardust

STP...purple

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