Black Pumas - Black moon rising
Amber Rubarth - Strive
Amber Rubarth - Novocaine
Bill Withers - Ain’t No Sunshine
Bob Marley - Is this Love
Eagles - Hotel California
Dua Lipa - Don’t start now
Muddy Waters - My home in the delta
I really see the age/generational difference when I look at these artists and either straight up never heard of them or simply never heard them. The only one I know is dua Lipa, and actually have heard evanescence obviously
Oh lol maybe your style? Ieam like I said I don’t know these artists they could be like up and coming edm artists for all I know lol. Just by the name tho I doubt it
I listen to a lot of new music, I’m actually not that old lol. I just find the new music is mix and mastered like crap. Its hard to judge the quality of good audio on crappy recordings.
It would be like going test drive a Bugatti with regular gas from circle k. Sure it will run but not as good as it could.
Details:
Morphine - Souvenirs
Salomé Leclerc - Nos Jours
Bass:
Blank and Jones - Sunkissed
Louk and Busho - Warning (Sa Vee Oh remix)
Treble:
Lostly - These Streets (Allen and Envy vocal remix)
Motley Crue - Face down in the dirt
Metal:
Fear Factory - Genexus (or Anodized)
that makes sense, i did hear from steve guttenberg that even indie rock or other indie underground artists who you would traditionally think to have good recordings have actually gotten worse. the recordings that is. Well with english music, theres some great recordings right now going on in korea, not sure about mexico. Im curious about japan, since theres alot of good music there but i don’t have any particular japanese music that sounds nice and dynamic
My test tracks:
Ludovico Einaudi - Run or Expirience (Instrument timber/tone test)
Nujabes - Luv Sic Part 3 (nice simple test beat)
Leessang - 출사표 (dosent have an english name to my knowledge) (phenomenal dynamic range generally dynamic beat)
The Strokes - Ize of the world (String seperation and guitar solo)
Some Music that i like to test systems:
Bass Mekanik, Basstronics
Amy Macdonald, Madonna, M + J Jackson, Jojo, Kari Bremnes, Katie Melua, Metallica, Warriyo, Brandom Heal, HIM & Ville Valo, FFDP, Deadmau5, Nightwish, Leonard Cohen,
Hundreds of songs, too lazy to list the most listened.
Stereo test I swear the bw2 ost is the ost that plays with the channels the most. This track goes to EXTREME, but it can get crazy with constant channel switching such as this one
Most of the earthbound ost for bass test because I realised with my 58x that it’s a relatively bassy ost, but my favorite track notably gets A LOT better with bass and it’s sanctuary guardian which will constantly thump in the background.
I have many instruments separation test tracks, but the most notable one is this one from the second paper mario game because it’s very catchy and it comes from my favorite ost so i heard it MANY times.
For soundstage test, this one is odd, but when I listened to it on my hd 598 (which really was my first good headphone), I realised the soundstage went WAAAAAY out there so I am curious how my stuff sounds with it since. I still don’t exactly know why a NES song would do this effect, but it is neat to listen to on a good song! Honorable mention goes to the original flatzone song from ssbm
One REALLY good stress test song for whether my gears has murderous highs or not is Maridia from super metroid which first off, it’s kind of picky in terms of quality because if you research this song and you end up on a bad rip, you WILL notice it (the one I linked seemed decent). The main thing with this song however is the highs are EVER SO CLOSE to murder, but they don’t really reach it so a good headphone would reproduce the clarity very well. One honorable mention which I like because it’s one of the simplest track to exist is drought from pokemon gen 3 This one, you might notice sounds harsh on this link and it’s because I can’t find a good rip on youtube, the ONLY version I didn’t find harsh is the ALAC one from itunes that you can buy. So it’s picky AND has very high notes.
For overall test (so just a song to test a lot at once), the classic theme from bejeweled 3 (very underrated ost btw) is my favorite because it lasts for 9 minutes and has multiple phases with different mood in each of them.
Though imo, the best test you can give to your current gear is a long listening session to the majority of your library.
It actually is funny when this type of topics popup.
It’s like maybe under 3% out of answers, people actually use Test songs or albums that are designed to test your system. They are extremely well recorded in studios and different tracks test different aspects and things by actual sound engineers and so on.
Wondering why people don’t use them more since that’s what they are designed for?
They aren’t fun to listen but they are tests for testing purposes.
The most funny comments are those that actually use Youtube as their reference and source material for testing. I just find this funny.
Well for me, it’s more because the one thing I am the most curious on is does it changes the tracks I listen to a lot? Sure, it might not be the most exhaustive, but it does show me immediate differences. Also, I don’t really use yt for this, I have higher quality versions of the stuff I linked, but yeah, though I will say, yt I think is 192kbps and I tried a while ago to AB myself and it was almost impossible to tell so it mostly depends on the original source that was uploaded…which unfortunately varies wildly.
Depends what you are trying to achieve when testing.
I don’t use play lists, I generally play tracks I’m familiar with and enjoy, because I care what the headphones sound like on those tracks.
I’ll admit I A/B anything new I get listening to the same tracks over and over.
If I hear something specific in the sound signature I either like or don’t like, I’ll move to a track that I think will highlight it.
The big test for anything I get though is if I choose to use it after the “testing” phase.
