"Hold... me close and hold me fast..." Louis Armstrong's recognizable voice pours over the audiophile's speakers annunciating each scratch of the record, every nuance goes unscathed; perfectly pronounced at exactly twice the volume of the original recording.

The next song on the list is a real dark one, "Piano Concerto No. 2. In A: Adagio Sostenuto Assa" a piece by Sviatoslav Richter. He cranks it up as high as the amplifier allows.

The third selection is the winner, "So What'cha Want?" composer: The Beastie Boys. The goosebumps ride his spine from bottom to top and nearly raise every hair on this head as he jumps hard up and down on the floor.