I did something lots of fun last evening. I took my Further cd and visited one of the upmarket audiophile equipment shops in town.

So I go in, and the salesguy takes me to the first room which had the entry level Denon amps - he wanted to finish this fast and get back to football on tv. The moment Snow started, the guy hit next on the remote freaking out at all those sounds right at the beginning - made him go back and play it again - the look on his face through Snow was priceless. He had never heard something so massive n alien on his audiophile set-up - the Santana cd he had plugged in first was sulking in a forgotten corner while Snow and EV brought down the snob audio set-up begging to it's knees.
None of the AVR 1610s or 1910s plugged into Polk Audio TS 1400s and PSW 125 sub could deliver Further to it's half glory. Our man soon realized and moved me to the higher room - this had Denon 4310 and similar plugged into an RTI A7 and Pro 600 sub - this setup did Further super justice - I heard the entire album , some songs quite a few times switching back and forth with various combinations n permutations. I promised myself to go back soon and pick something similar (soon is going to be a long time since these 3 pieces would cost me $4650).

I used to take my BT Movement in Still life cd long back to test new audio systems - Further is the ultimate test for audiophiles - do try. Hard to imagine the Further Ed n Tom hear on their studio monitors.

I don't know if I would be able to physically withstand listening to this on true audiophile equipment. Honestly. It would be like a gig x10,000, and my brain would start shooting out my eye sockets, and I'd just be a mess.

Sounds like a delicious idea, though!!

You should try it once, you'll love it!
These were soundproofed carpeted, listening rooms with nice sofas, n tonnes of speakers all around. We didn't sit down once - the moment Snow started the whole room turned into a spaceship, with EV kicking in, it just flew off.

Hmm not a bad way to spend a free Saturday.