And there were a few folks whose pictures I didn't get since I - um, popped the question not in their exhibits but perhaps in the hallway or, after hours, in a restaurant or bar.


Ron Williams - Alpen Audio
* Patty Larkin - Mink Coats


Adam Decaria - Zu Audio
* Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Effortless


Jerry Siegel - 10Audio
* Dire Straits
* Joan Armatrading


Jonathan Tinn -Blue Light Audio
* Benny Carter - Jazz Giant [on SACD]
* Sinatra - Come Fly with Me


Dave Stanard - Silver Circle Audio)
* Ray Brown and Laurindo Almeida - Moonlight Serenade


Ron Sutherland - Sutherland Engineering
* Freddy Fender
* Julie London


Mike Sanders - Quicksilver Audio
* Several self-made recording of percussion and piano
* Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto [Verve]
Bob Kraamer - Daedalus Audio
* Hadouks Trio - Live
* Samite - Kambo Angels
* Alex Cuban Band - Humo de Tabaco


Readers are free to interpret the responses I gathered as they like and make what they will of my question. I believe respondents understood that the question was not meant to be a test or trick of any sort. The way the question was teed up (the conversation leading up to the question itself) made that far clearer than how I wrote "the question" in the intro for this report.


We often hear the mantra "It's about the music" so I was looking to gather a list of recordings that respondents find fun, emotive, relaxing, energizing, or which meet whatever need they have when the opportunity to play something not necessarily aimed at showing off their systems' capabilities is at hand. Which could (should) be always. But that's another topic for another day.


At a show where much of the focus is on the gear, I was hoping to find a way to bring things back to the music a bit, and perhaps discover some diverse music that some of you might find worth exploring...