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Songs for Testing New Equipment

post #1 of 10
9/12/07 at 3:08am
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Hi

I am trying to compile a compilation of the best songs to use to test new equipment, especially earphones.

Looking for song suggestions and why that song is a good candidate
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post #2 of 10
9/12/07 at 3:21am
Personally,

My list is

Alexisonfire - This could be anywhere in the world
(because of the very low frequency drum)

The Clash - Guns of Brixton & Lost in the supermarket
(I listen for the details in the symbols, and some sound stage)

Pink Floyd - Another brick in the wall Part 3
(For the sound stage at the beginning, very easy to judge sound stage)

BB King/Eric Clapton - Heart beats like a hammer
(To see if it has that proper full sound to it.)
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post #3 of 10
9/12/07 at 1:49pm
theres not one list that will be right, but some songs have a nice inbuilt testbed such as a whisper or brushes on the drums, which are good for comparros to see if there is any change in the inflection of the sound or whisper

i am using art of noise - beatbox (diversion 1) with the voice at the beginning, the male voice not the prominent female one.

i also use fugees - ready or not's beginning. (anyone else think the score is a great sounding album with headphones? - i was suprised at the sound quality/production)

malcom mclarens - madame butterfly

michael bubles - quando quando, with the vocals of nelly furtado

list could go on..
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post #4 of 10
9/12/07 at 1:55pm
I would use a song I know inside out.
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post #5 of 10
9/12/07 at 3:49pm
Check out this disk. http://www.amazon.com/Possibilities-...9622544&sr=1-2

Extremely well recorded, I think. Wide range of sounds. Good piano, male & female vocals, etc. I thought Christina Aguilera was just, ... well, you don't really want to know what I thought, but yikes, she has pipes. Also check out Sting's cut and the one with Jonny Lang and Joss Stone.

Another favorite for testing new phones is
http://www.amazon.com/Keb-Mo/dp/B000...9622887&sr=1-2

Mooch
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post #6 of 10
9/13/07 at 3:48am
I like doing test with Eric Clapton "Unplugged",
Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny "Beyond The Missouri Sky",
although there are special discs for that purpose like Chesky, McIntosch (if I remember right)
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post #7 of 10
9/13/07 at 4:17am
if you want to isolate the high and low frequencies, and in particular listen to quick percussions and cymbals with subterranean bass lines (and little in the way of midrange noise to cloudy this up), you should listen to "Root Beer," track 07 on the "american beauty" soundtrack.
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post #8 of 10
9/16/07 at 12:18am
You should go with songs that you have heard hundreds of times and are very familiar with all of the nuances in the music. I used to go by recommendations of others but unfamiliarity didn't help much in testing equipment.
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post #9 of 10
9/16/07 at 2:01am
little feat-fat man in a bathtub
pink floyd-comfortably numb
black sabbath-iron man
alanis morissette-uninvited
audioslave-gasoline

these cover a wide dynamic range lots of low end in univited with good female vocals
audioslave and sabbath for pounding fun and fatman for one end of the spectrum to
the other and comfortably numb for one of the best guitar solos that most people
don't tire of.
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post #10 of 10
10/9/11 at 5:36am

My Benchmarks Tracks

 

Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror
Lil Jon - Get Low
Three 6 Mafia - Late Night Tip
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tearjerker
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall Pt 2
Guns N' Roses - November Rain/Welcome To The Jungle
Goldfinger - 99 Red Ballons
Queen - Bohemian Rapsody
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long

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