Favorite Songs for testing gear?

[Pauli]

Dawning of the Season Magdalena Bay

Nightshift The Commodores

First in an Innocent World The Pattern Forms

Bubbles Yosi Horikawa

 

[Rickysa]

To be useful, such a list would need what you are listening for, and how it might fail to be "right".

Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep...do we have said list? How nice for a subjective personal "audibility" assessment to pair w/ spinorama, A/B switches, room effect, etc.

 

[Cbdb2]

Nice choices in the thread, but I’m missing tracks with huge dynamic range—songs, or more likely classical full-orchestra pieces, that really put hi-fi equipment to the ultimate test. Do you have any suggestions?

Edit:
A quick Google/Gemini AI search gave me these suggestions—what do you think of them?
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I think "uncompressed" cannon is BS. Even if they didnt use a compressor the level is manipulated so as not to clip anything. They set how loud the cannon is. If they really wanted the full dynamic of the cannon they would have to reduce the actual music level 30db. On vinyl the music would be left with 20db S/N.

 

[Mort]

I just want to hear if the system can reproduce Billie Elish 'Bad Guy' at 95 db.

 

[Pauli]

I just want to hear if the system can reproduce Billie Elish 'Bad Guy' at 95 db.

... and if some »smart display manager« would change Elish to Eilish

In between, try
Break the Fever Mutemath.

 

[IngMishael]

I just want to hear if the system can reproduce Billie Elish 'Bad Guy' at 95 db.

real. love her music. they are a torture tests for bass drivers