For me it’s off to the right, but still inside the sound stage. It’s also rather subdued.
I knew it was time to tweak the system, or at least check my speakers are wired up correctly.
To test them, I listened to the End from Apocalypse Now; the choppers moved from right to left. Ok all is well according to Bunker Audio stereo check test tracks.
Found on Tidal.
Will have a listen
Shared this with the bar man at my local, who is a drum and bass fan. He shared a couple of artists whose stuff sounds pretty good too.
Nah. Music stopped being produced around 1995.
I had it around 79 
But then again, maybe John Milner got it right…
Goodnight Saigon by Billy Joel.
Steve Hoffman suggests that Donald Fagen’s Kamakiriad is the perfect stereo set-up test music.
To quote Steve:
“It’s one of those flat sounding “scrubbed” clean Roger Nichols engineered albums that has absolutely no musical overtones of any kind on any instrument.
Since the music is without overtones, it’s very easy to spot changes in playback gear, from different wire, electronics, speakers, etc. It makes it very easy.
The CD is pretty balanced from the upper midrange on down to the low notes, one can tell a lot about the state of one’s gear from this.
The top end can be a bit hard, even tizzy with certain gear. Once we know this, we (hopefully) can adjust our ears. So, if something on the album sounds “just right” in the top end, we know that the system is lying to us and smoothing out the bit of edge. Just the right amount of edge means we’ve nailed it for all other music. Too much edge (I mean, painful) means we have a very bright system and unless we like it that way (I don’t), it needs fixing. So, a simple way to test this, see?
I use this album all the time to check out how swapping out interconnects, etc. is going. Once you’re used to this album, it’s essential for that. No overtones whatsoever (chuckle)! Remember this the next time you need to evaluate stereo equipment!
Listen to “SNOWBOUND” which is a perfect way to check out the bass performance of your system. All the notes of this bass, the top notes, bottom notes and everything in-between should be equally balanced. No one area should stick out or you have a bass problem”.
Audiophiles. Bless. “It’s all about the music”. Er…
The time to “test” your system is firstly at a dealer, secondly at your home when setting up.
After that it should be just about the music.
No, its all about improving the musicality of the system. It is an endless and mostly joyful, although blddy expensive, pursuit. 
Yes it can be, or it can be like @mikehughescq states, just about listening to the music.
Either way as long as people enjoy it, it’s all good 
As they say music loves buy audio equipment to listen to music and audiophiles buy music to listen to their audio equipment!
Gary
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