Best 5 songs to test new headphones on!
May 29, 2013 at 4:14 PM Post #16 of 35
  1. “Bring Me The Disco King” by David Bowie
  2. “Morph the Cat” by Donald Fagen
  3. “Sailing Days” by salyu x salyu
  1. “Two Tribes (Annihilation)” by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  2. “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” by Vaughn Monroe
 
May 29, 2013 at 6:21 PM Post #17 of 35
"In My Head" by Queens of the Stone Age to test mids.
"The Trick is to Keep Breathing" by Garbage to test subbass without midbass.
"Yellow Ledbetter" by Pearl Jam to test soundstage.
"Could It Be" by Noisia to test detail.
"Your Heat is Rising" by Electric Six to test impact.
 
Jun 15, 2015 at 2:52 PM Post #21 of 35
The Sheffield Lab album by James Newton Howard & Friends is old-school, but great for testing a wonderfully mixed and mastered album with a very wide range of concurrent frequencies. I don't have this  album any more, but you can get a lower quality experience with these youtube videos. It comes from http://www.sheffieldlab.com which is known for producing albums meant specifically for testing out audio devices.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_VEYuzTKNI&list=PLFYZI4I7ConKCUnGWO15rGa0NcRiILrWj
 
Jun 15, 2015 at 5:13 PM Post #22 of 35
parrottsquawk said:
  The Sheffield Lab album by James Newton Howard & Friends is old-school, but great for testing a wonderfully mixed and mastered album with a very wide range of concurrent frequencies. I don't have this  album any more, but you can get a lower quality experience with these youtube videos. It comes from http://www.sheffieldlab.com which is known for producing albums meant specifically for testing out audio devices.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_VEYuzTKNI&list=PLFYZI4I7ConKCUnGWO15rGa0NcRiILrWj
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A CD quality lossless version is also available on Tidal - http://listen.tidalhifi.com/album/8100867
 
Jun 15, 2015 at 5:59 PM Post #24 of 35
Antony And The Johnsons - Epilepsy is Dancing (Cut The World, 2012)
Roxy Music - Avalon (Avalon, 1982)
John Carpenter - Vortex (John Carpenter's Lost Themes, 2015)
65daysofstatic - Prisms (Wild Light, 2013)
Herbie Hancock - Butterfly (Directstep, 1978)
 
Jul 30, 2015 at 5:37 PM Post #26 of 35
sparkofinsanity said:
  Antony And The Johnsons - Epilepsy is Dancing (Cut The World, 2012)
Roxy Music - Avalon (Avalon, 1982)
John Carpenter - Vortex (John Carpenter's Lost Themes, 2015)
65daysofstatic - Prisms (Wild Light, 2013)
Herbie Hancock - Butterfly (Directstep, 1978)
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John Carpenter, hell ya! 
 
Here's my 5 Classical tracks (trust me on the specific versions, it counts!):
1.Stravinsky's Firebird Suite-"Infernal Dance of King Kastchei" (The Erich Leinsdorf Boston Symphony Orchestra version)
2.Dvorak's Symphony No.9: "IV Allegro Con Fuoco" (The Kirill Kondrashin Wiener Philharmoniker version)
3.Robert Schumann's Cello Concerto in A minor, Op.129: "III Sehr lebhaft"
4.Vivaldi's Concerto in D Major, Opus 4 No.11: "Largo"
5.Holst's The Planets: "Uranus" (the Herbert Von Karajan Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra version)
 
And here's my 5 tracks for all other genres:
1.Rage Against The Machine "Fistful of Steel"
2.Mobb Deep "Survival of the Fittest"
3.Hanggai "Yekul Song"
4.Little Dragon "Killing Me"
5.And finally, to test the bbbbbass......Daz Dillinger "My System"
 
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Jan 28, 2016 at 8:30 PM Post #27 of 35
Try the orchestral version of Lindsey Stirling's Elements. 
 
Jan 30, 2016 at 3:13 AM Post #28 of 35
That's brilliant! Here's an album I wish I'd found earlier by Henrik Schwarz, titled "Instruments." Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwyFpsSNEqoBLBDXkZsOBUJWlFA45SyUM
 
Jan 30, 2016 at 6:25 PM Post #29 of 35
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Jan 30, 2016 at 6:44 PM Post #30 of 35
I've put together a Spotify playlist called Headphone / Amp Test tracks. Take a listen and see what you think.
 
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