All:

As I have not owned a CD player in over a decade (nor do I own a SINGLE CD), and am awaiting my NAD 516, could anyone reply with some recommended CD's to purchase that should be a part of "every audiophile's collection"?

I am very eager to listen to the Redbook format in addition to FLAC and vinyl I already enjoy.

My musical tastes are fairly wide open, including: Rock, NuWave/Alternative, Classical, "classic" Jazz, "Smooth or modern" Jazz, Opera, Industrial, pretty much anything with the exception of Heavy Metal and its variants. Nothing against those who do listen to it! Everyone just can't like every style I guess! I also am a little adverse to Queen and Styx; as my brother just overplayed the crap out of them when I was growing up. lol.

Some of my favorites are; heavily compressed to just show variety:

Miles Davis
U2: (Joshua Tree and older)
Peter Gabriel
Tom Petty
Kraftwerk
Pink Floyd
Roger Waters
Depeche Mode
The Cure
Sting/The Police
The Beatles
John Coltrane
The Who
the Beatles
Jay-Z
Eminem
Elton John
Hozier
Jimi Hendrix
Johnny Cash
Led Zeppelin
Luciano Pavarotti
Ludovico Einaudi
Sade
Moby
Bach
Mozart
Muddy Waters
Nick Drake
Pearl Jam
Peter Tosh
Scuba
Sia
The Art of Noise
The Doors
Notorious B.I.G.
The Smiths

So... That's my "taste" after scanning through my small vinyl collection and large FLAC library. I hope some folks share some of these tastes..

I look forward to recommendations!

Respectfully,

Ron