It's amazing how a good set of speakers will bring out the recording quality of a CD. Hard to believe that there are so many poorly recorded CDs out there. Before I purchased my new system all CD sound quality sounded the same. Not now. One CD that I used to audition my speakers was Sarah McLachlan's Ratities, B-Sides and Other Stuff. Great CD, it really helped identify the strong points and not so strong points of the speakers. On a decent system the sound stage is amazing (check out tracks 10,11, 12,13)
While auditioning speakers I could easily determine if I liked the way they sounded with the CD. I auditioned the PSB Image 6s, Axioms M60s, and 80’s, Energy C7s, Totem Staff’s and Meadowlark Kestrels.
It made choosing the speakers a relatively easy task. I would definitely recommend it as an audition CD.
