Best Music for Equipment Reviews and Listening Pleasure

[dualazmak]

I have already thanked you on your relevant thread, but would just like to point out how magnificent it is - for anyone here or in search of excellent sampling music. To paraphrase Lawrence Oates: "I'm just going inside and may be some time!"

So much to explore.

An Attempt Sharing Reference Quality Music Playlist: at least a portion and/or whole track being analyzed by 3D color spectrum of Adobe Audition

I hope it would be allowed and worthwhile having this thread within "Reference Quality Music Category" in our ASR Forum for your/our reference. During September 10 to October 24 in 2022, I shared a series of posts on reference/sampler music albums/tracks under the rather long title of...

www.audiosciencereview.com

Thank you for your kind attention on my that specific thread sharing "Reference Quality Music Playlist".

Spoiler

[Part-00] Introduction: #587
[Part-01] Full Orchestral Music: #588
[Part-02] Solo Piano Music: #590
[Part-03] Typical(?) Smooth Jazz Music with Guitar: #591
[Part-04] Bimmel Bolle Antique Orgel; Extremely High-Energy High-Frequency Sharp Transient sound: #592
[Part-05] Color Spectrum of Tracks in CBS/Sony's "Super Audio Check CD": #593
[Part-06] Female Vocal in Jazz and Popular Music, and One Male Vocal Track for Comparison: #596
[Part-07] Female Vocal and Counter Tenor in Early Classical Music: #639
[Part-08] (Smooth?) Jazz Trio: #640
[Part-09] Organ Music: #641
[Part-10] Lute Music: #642
[Part-11] Violin Music: #643
[Part-12] Cello Music: #644
[Part-13] Harpsichord (Cembalo, Clavecin) Music: #645
[Part-14] Piano Concertos: #650
[Part-15] Again, CBS/Sony's "Super Audio Check CD": Analyzed by Adobe Audition 3.0.1 and MusicScope 2.1.0: #651
[Part-16] A Cappella Chorus and A Cappella Vocal Ensemble: #652
[Part-17] Excellent Quality Music Tracks, But Containing Unacceptably High Gain Low-Frequency Air Conditioning Noises; What Counter Measures Can We Have? #658
[Part-18] An Interlude or Provisional Finale of the Post Series: #669
and,
Updated, the latest, Audio Sampler Playlist as of October 20, 2022: #670

I would be very happy if the thread and posts thereof would be somewhat worthwhile for many of our ASR friends, and your participation on the thread and on my multichannel project thread (where I shared each of the "Reference Playlist" series posts) will be highly welcome and appreciated!

 

[dualazmak]

My method is to use quality recordings of strings. Cello, Violin and Piano especially. Timbral accuracy is important to me and strings are the most difficult to reproduce accurately.

Just for your possible interest and reference, you would please find on my project thread;
- Excellent Recording Quality Music Albums/Tracks for Subjective (and Possibly Objective) Test/Check/Tuning of Multichannel Multi-Driver Multi-Way Multi-Amplifier Time-Aligned Active Stereo Audio System and Room Acoustics; at least a Portion and/or One Track being Analyzed by Color Spectrum of Adobe Audition in Common Parameters:
[Part-02] Solo Piano Music: #590
[Part-11] Violin Music: #643
[Part-12] Cello Music: #644

And also this post #13 (violin music) on my another thread entitled "Music for Testing Treble (High Frequency) Sound".

 

[Dgob]

This playlist is useful for testing midrange, bass and sub-bass. It also offers other features for equipment testing AND (hopefully) sheer listening pleasure.

Updated! As it is not available to stream elsewhere, the untitled track can be found here :

https://www.discogs.com/release/4803924-Gary-Karr-Adagio-dAlbinoni .

 

[Womaz]

A list of a very eclectic mix of styles.

Wow what a great video . Some i have never heard of and some memories flooding back too. Brilliant

 

[LTig]

My recommendation is to use recordings with many instruments, a wide frequency range and high dynamic. Works for large Symphony orchestra like Mahlers 2nd symphony. Or very dense recordings like The Grudge by Tool. Good systems let you hear more of the individual instruments and make it easier to follow their songlines.

Last 7 minutes, play as loud as possible:

 

[Cbdb2]

Thats why equipment demos use solo voice and guitar and sparse drums. The dense stuff turns to mush on inferior gear. I have always wondered how Fast Car became a standard for testing speakers when it falls into the "easy" category.

 

[LTig]

This crescendo is very impressive. Saw it live recently - just wow.

 

[Dgob]

I just came across this playlist from another reviewer. Many of you might already have seen this, but I found it had some useful new additions:

Sonic Snacks by Stjernholm Reviews

Listen to Sonic Snacks by Stjernholm Reviews on TIDAL

tidal.com

 

[Dgob]

For those who didn't attend the Munich 2023 Hi End Hifi Show, these are some of the tracks used to demonstrate the exhibitors' various wares.