Do you have some specific artists or songs you always keep on mind when wanting to test a new soundsystem? Or do you just play whatever is at hand?
― Moka, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 19:23 (sixteen years ago)
The whole 'Shedding the Past' album by Shed has been a favorite of mine since last year. Songs like 'Estrange' and 'Slow Motion Replay' have the hability to make you immediatly distinguish a good soundsystem from a bad one.
Other songs I tend to use:
Siriusmo - WowUakti & Philip Glass - Paru RiverDungen - Mina Damer OCh FasanerDungen - Ingenting Ar Sig Likt
― Moka, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 19:34 (sixteen years ago)
I don't, but I used to know a guy who swore by Dire Straits' Love Over Gold.
― unicorn poop evaluator (WmC), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 20:01 (sixteen years ago)
Aja and Breakfast in America are stereo store classics
― i would never want a book's autograph (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 20:08 (sixteen years ago)
To test a new system I usually play the song with the loudest/most ridiculous bass signal in my collection. Which to-date is still Raw Fusion's Live From the Styleetron.
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 20:12 (sixteen years ago)
why?
― i would never want a book's autograph (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 20:13 (sixteen years ago)
Mine used to be "Bombscare" by 2 Bad Mice. Now I don't have one. ;_;
― 1899 Horsey Horseless (HI DERE), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 20:14 (sixteen years ago)
i chose my cd/dvd player after having listened to joy division's "unknown pleasures" on it in the shop. it was stupid i guess as at home it didn't sound as good as in the shop. i should have bought the speakers and not the player.
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 20:15 (sixteen years ago)
(and I choose that one because it has both ridiculous subfrequencies and very crisp, high-pitched snare hits and covers a pretty wide sonic spectrum)
― 1899 Horsey Horseless (HI DERE), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 20:15 (sixteen years ago)
haha oh I dunno because it sounds best when played insanely loud! Plus if a system can handle that much bass without blowing a speaker then it will probably do allright with whatever else I run through it.
I confess I am not much of an audiophile when it comes to stereos tho obviously
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― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 20:16 (sixteen years ago)
i guess as a "stress test" it sort of works
i just think it's sort of weird to test something by playing something that's really odd or has weird characteristics as compared to the average record you listen to
― i would never want a book's autograph (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 20:17 (sixteen years ago)
personally these days i would probably do a classic jazz LP or nice CD remaster...i figure if it can handle the subtle stuff it will do rock or rap or techno just fine
― i would never want a book's autograph (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 20:20 (sixteen years ago)
oh I have much MUCH weirder sounding records I could use. I guess like Dan's example the Raw Fusion album covers a nice range of frequencies - starting with super low-end and up through the higher end of the spectrum. It's not that unusual sounding a record, it just has this amazing low end to it. Now throwing on some super-mid-rangey 80s metal or scratchy old Carter Family records - that would not make any sense.
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 20:22 (sixteen years ago)
i usually use two albini recordings--the blackened air by nina nastasia and blessed black wings by high on fire.
― DUDE, I DON'T LOSE (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 20:23 (sixteen years ago)
blessed black wings by high on fire.
good choice - amazing sounding record
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 20:27 (sixteen years ago)
it is def one of my favorite-sounding records, and the first song is so perfect for audio tests--you got that insane drum part fading in slow, then one guitar, then a doubled guitar, then full onslaught.
― DUDE, I DON'T LOSE (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 20:32 (sixteen years ago)
what's a good album to test 5.1 surround with? (probably criteria is differnt than regualr sounding great.)
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 20:41 (sixteen years ago)
presumably something that was mixed in 5.1
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 20:41 (sixteen years ago)
yeah any good ones out there? did anyone like that flaming lips one karateka or whatever it was that had 8 things at once?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 20:47 (sixteen years ago)
Gotta be LP5 by Autechre (Still!)
― dog latin, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 21:36 (sixteen years ago)
Zaireeka is amazing, such a great unique thing... but that's pre-5.1 if I'm not mistaken...?
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 21:38 (sixteen years ago)
some talk about how to fake it here:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t21095.html
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 21:39 (sixteen years ago)
lots of good suggestions here:
What album would be good to test out my new stereo setup?
― nerve_pylon, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 22:14 (sixteen years ago)
When I used to DJ gigs, I usually tested the sound system with "Once Again Back" by Hardfloor. That tune has an incredibly deep and hard bassline, plus some squelchy 303 action, so if a soundsystem could handle it, it could probably handle anything.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 12:53 (sixteen years ago)
Since I used to DJ mostly in dingy student parties with sounds systems that weren't exactly state-of-the-art, my main concern was how much the system could handle, not how great the sound was.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 13:01 (sixteen years ago)
Haw! I went through a phase where I would do this. I got a stern talking-to once in Best Buy when I used DJ Food's "Kaleidescope" to test Aiwa bookshelf systems. Likewise, that album has a great range of frequencies, but I was exploiting the bassier, early tracks on the album. Oh, and the one that starts out with a huge pool break sample. I was still kinda into freakin' out the squares back then.
― "Gin And Juice," the baddest groove in years (kingkongvsgodzilla), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 13:38 (sixteen years ago)
"Fine Time" by New Order
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 13:50 (sixteen years ago)
I use some compressed, mid-ranged nu-metal crap.
― Jesus Christ, Attorney at Law (res), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 14:32 (sixteen years ago)
More please.
― Moka, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 23:36 (fifteen years ago)
DIRE STRAITS - MONEY FOR NOTHING(deserves all caps)
― guammls (QE II), Thursday, 11 February 2010 00:54 (fifteen years ago)
Instead of some super-slick ultra-produced record, I prefer to use something really organic sounding. It's easier to tell what's real and what isn't. Slates by The Fall works really well for this.
― everything, Thursday, 11 February 2010 00:56 (fifteen years ago)
prob couldn't tell the difference between slates on a hi-fi and slates on a boombox but whatever
― guammls (QE II), Thursday, 11 February 2010 00:58 (fifteen years ago)
i mean "I prob couldn't tell the difference", not you, everything
― guammls (QE II), Thursday, 11 February 2010 00:59 (fifteen years ago)
my boyfriend always uses "blood sugar sex magik"
ughhh
― Kat Bee, Thursday, 11 February 2010 01:38 (fifteen years ago)