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For testing speakers, Infected Mushroom, Tame Impala and 20syl/AllttA are always good choices. Maybe Tool as well (10000 days). Song depends on what I'm most familiar with atm.
For a new library, I'd probably just choose whatever I listen to the most. Which would be The Fearless Flyers and Aesop Rock rn.
Fellow IM enjoyer in the wild! π
βRumorsβ by Fleetwood Mac.
This song was made to test new setups lol. It has such a wide overlapping range. It can truly be appreciated in hi-res
The Chain
One of the THX Deep Notes
Herbie Hancock - Chameleon
Then listen to the whole Head Hunters album tbh
Introduced my son to Watermelon man yesterday. Legendary!
You must be a cool dad
I don't know. I'm pretty eclectic when it comes to music. Seems like my son and his friends like my curated playlists. They're aged 15 to 17 so at an age where they develop a broader taste for music. Really fun.
Same!
Led Zeppelin II in its entirety
But Damone said side 1 of Led Zeppelin IV should be played βwhenever possible!β /s
Probably A Night at the Opera by Queen, which was the first album I ever bought with my own money. A ton of classic tracks, lots of tonal range, weirdass spatial effects from early-era screwing around with stereophonic production, and a hell of a good time any day of the week.
46 and 2
If I got new speakers, better quality ones than the ones for my old RCA thing or the ones in my Bria radio CD player thing, or even my beats headphones, I'd have a hard time choosing an album. Would probably go with whatever I'm in love with at the moment. Currently that's a 3 way tie between R.E.M.'s Out of Time, Alice in Chains Jar of Flies, and New Radicals Maybe You've Been Brainwashed. Would struggle to lick between those 3.
As for individual songs, I got a couple I'm currently absolutely in love with that I'd love to play on very high quality speakers:
Deafening - The Nixon Rodeo ( emotionally hard rock, at least I think so )
OR
Someday We'll Know - New Radicals ( for some reason this just became my absolute favorite New Radicals song immediately after hearing it once on CD )
New speakers? Maurice Ravel, "Bolero". No better music to test an audio system.
Rage Against the Machine?
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
I have listened to this album more times than anything else I own. I'm on my third copy of it after wearing out the original pressing I have from the 90's and the repressing from 10 years ago. I know every sample, every soundscape, and it almost brings me to tears every time I drop the needle on it. So many memories of good times where this was the soundtrack. So many friends, now gone, walk next to me again when that album plays.
I miss you, Isaac.
... it's the money
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Here's a screenshot of my headphone testing playlist. Songs I like, but also having either deep bass, bright highs, or both. Plus, they're songs I've listened to a million times, so I know how they're supposed to sound.
As for music I'd want to get first when starting over: Dark Side of the Moon.
Bear with me on this one.
I like to use the maestoso from Saint-SaΓ«nsβs Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, often called the Organ Symphony, for testing speakers. Turn it way up and blast that organ sound. Also reminds me of the movie Babe since they used the theme from this movement for that movie. π
(Links below are YouTube Music, but Iβm confident you can find the same recordings on Spotify.)
Hereβs a good recording, listen to at least the first 1:45, though the full movement isnβt very long (a bit over seven minutes). Again, volume is your friend for this movement. Itβs MAJESTIC, and on a good set of speakers itβs incredible.
Another good orchestral work for this type of showing off is Holstβs Jupiter, or the fourth movement of DvoΕΓ‘kβs New World Symphony
(There are many more but these are some relatively well-known-without-people-knowing-they-know-them ones.)
Guitar mass but infected mushroom.
If the speakers have no problem with that they'll play anything else I listen to
This was a really good suggestion. I enjoyed this a lot. Thank you.
Hotel California by Eagles
Dark Side of the Moon and now I feel old.
I was surprised how much I had to scroll for this. I thought a lot of people still test with it. E.g. I was born 10-ish years after DSotM was released, listened to it first in my teens, but it has been my go-to album for every audio upgrade ever since that.
Never gonna give you up
Evil Empire by Rage Against the Machine
Cat Stevens - Wild World
βA Fever You Canβt Sweat Outβ by Panic! At the Disco. Itβs been my favorite album since it came out. I never get tired of it. Specifically βCamisadoβ is my favorite track on it.
Sound and Fury - Sturgill Simpson.
Jazzmataz vol. 1 by Guru
Hells Bells by AC/DC.
Voodoo by Godsmack
Overture 1928 - Dream Theater
Dire Straits - Walk of Life.
Welcome to The Black Parade.
After restoring a vintage reciever, it was the first song thst made me feel, unprompted, that I had gotten it right.
Even god has a hell
"6:00" by Dream Theater. It begins with a sick drum fill that pans across stereo speakers and then builds up with drums, then keyboards, then guitar/bass. It sounds fantastic cranked up on a good set of speakers!
Polygamous by Breaking Benjamin. Followed by the rest of the Saturate album.
I was in theatre school for a while. We touched on everything related to a theatre production, including sound. Our tech would always test his setup with Paul Simon's Getting Ready For Christmas Day.
I've heard that song used to calibrate audio setups so often that it's become easy to identify any issues when I hear it.
T.Rex - 20th Century Boy.
Well if im trying out new speakers, it's usually vega core from doom
If im playing new music in a playlist, it'd probably be something by quadeca tho.. maybe godstained, or Sisyphus
Electric Ladyland
It's so cliche in the speaker world, but the live recording of Hotel California by The Eagles. On solid speakers, it is like you're there in the audience.
AC/DC - "Back in Black"
