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Armed with a list of speakers to listen to, how about music?

These are some of my long-term and current favourites -- things I know pretty well from regular listening:

• Chopin: Preludes (Ingrid Fliter)
  
• Janáček: Glagolitic Mass (Warsaw PO/Wit) - Veruju, organ solo
  
• Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (CBSO/Rattle) - final movement
  
• Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (CBSO/Rattle) - first, fourth, and fifth movements
  
• Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time (Walter Boeykens) - Louange…, Danse…
  
• Debussy/Ravel/Dutilleux: string quartets (Belcea Quartet) [Qobuz]
  
• Villa-Lobos: string quartets 4/6/14 (Danubius Quartet) [Qobuz]
  
• Jens Felger: 2 Days And A Year - City Lights, Wolkenlos, Rare Moments [Qobuz]
  
• Kate Bush: Aerial - How To Be Invisible
  
• Faithless: Outrospective - Crazy English Summer
  
• Portico: Living Fields [Qobuz]
  
• WHO Trio: Less is More
  
• Bruford: All Heaven Broke Loose - Nerve
  
• Gary Willis: No Sweat - The Everlasting Night
  
• Riverside: Out of Myself - Reality Dream I, II
  
• Porcupine Tree: Deadwing - Shallow, Halo
  
• Pixies: Doolittle - Mr Grieves
  
• Gang Of Four: Content - A Fruitfly In The Beehive
  
• Gillian Welch: Time (The Revelator)
  
• Malia: Convergence - Celestial Echo [Qobuz]
  
• Tosca: Suzuki - Orozco, Boss On The Boat
  
• D’Angelo: Voodoo - Playa Playa, Devil’s Pie [Qobuz]
  

Then some tracks added to the list for more specific reasons:

• Rudimental: Home - Spoons [Qobuz] -- how low can you go?
  
• London Grammar: If You Wait - Hey Now [Qobuz] -- everyone's hi-fi test track du jour
  
• Albrecht Riermeier: Four Drummers Drumming - Seven Drums in Seven Four -- great test for realistic drum sounds
  
• Audioslave: Audioslave - Gasoline, Light My Way -- gotta be able to do loud and nasty
  
• Soundgarden: Superunknown - Mailman -- see above!
  

And finally from an album I hadn't heard until Trevor and Gavin at Guildford Audio recommended it, but which proved to be excellent:

• Robert Miles/Trilok Gurtu: Miles Gurtu - Golden Rust [Qobuz]
  

That lot covers most of the bases from my point of view.