HDBRbuilder Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 "Tiptoe through the tulips" by Tiny Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djk Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 Didn't he leave the building with Elvis? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 When testing amplifiers and loudspeakers for EnjoyTheMusic.com, I always play a crescendo of full orchestra music. No other type of music has full audible frequency response range, highest dynamic range, widest sound pressure levels and most instruments all playing at the same time! These characteristics are extremely hard for amplifier and speaker combinations to reproduce and MOST dont. They compress and distort the notes and sounds together like puree vegetable juice. Really wanna hear what your stereo cant do? Play all-out, high-energy full symphony orchestra. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivanhurd Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 ^^^You have any recommendations on specific ones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Quiet_Hollow Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 ^^^You have any recommendations on specific ones? The Braveheart original score by the LSO was recorded with right around 35 dB of dynamic range. [:|] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ceptorman Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Peter Gabriel's "So" album. Sledgehammer is a quick one that will show any shortcomings. This is true. One of the best albums ever made, and it sounds exceptional. Mercy Street will also give your speakers a workout, especially in the lower frequency. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juniper Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 My favorite is Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Records. The first 14.25 minutes. Starts off very slow, then builds, then slow and builds and then eventually explodes into a full orchestra a few times, back and forth, and your house starts to rumble. All mortal systems fail this test.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paducah Home Theater Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 For actual testing and demo: 1. Dire Straits - Money for Nothing. King of all demo songs. 2. Tool - 46 and 2. Awesome bass guitar riff with a nice tone, cool dynamics. This one has it all. 3. Dave Matthews Band - "Say Goodbye", the intro has lots of cool drums. 4. Nils Lofgren - Keith Don't Go, nice acoustic guitar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWL Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Too many to count..... with Spotify I find good stuff constantly and when I do I buy the Cd and rip that sucker. Sent from my SM-G920R4 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montego Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Ry Cooder - JAZZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZEUS121996 Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 I'm surprised no one still has not mentioned War's music for bass. Low Rider can definitely pound the woofers Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 (edited) My favorite is Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Records. There was a direct-to-disc phonograph recording of Romeo & Juliet by Sheffield Lab done in the late 1970s by Doug Sax with Erich Leinsdorf and the LA Philharmonic that was my test disc. No mastering on that recording. The dynamics were difficult to keep the needle in the groove and the loudspeakers from sounding "loud", i.e., in my non-Klipsch era using planars from the early 80s to the mid-2000s. That recording is spectacular still, if you can ignore the ticks and pops that have built up over 3 1/2 decades of use--something that I've always found difficult to do. Chris Edited March 24, 2016 by Chris A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whatever55 Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Black Sabbath Paranoid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattSER Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 My go-to songs to display sheer power: Metallica - Enter Sandman Blue Stahli - Suit Up Celldweller - Faction 6 To test many qualities: Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms(album) Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven Death - Voice of the Soul Chris Cornell - I Am The Highway(live) - Songbook Dead Can Dance - The Carnival Is Over Santana - Europa Muse - Endlessly / Panic Station The Modern Jazz Quartet - Blues in C Minor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 I just unmasterd Blues on Bach including Blues in C Minor by The Modern Jazz Quartet. The results are really nice to just sit back and listen to for non-auditioning purposes.. I've collected many of the MJQ's studio albums on digital format. Their music is a significant part of my music gestalt. They make pretty convincing listening on the Jubs after unmastering. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arash Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Chasing the Dragon Audiophile record by Mike Valentine is a killer. selling every speaker is possible if you have this CD! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toolz Posted March 27, 2016 Share Posted March 27, 2016 (edited) Spectaculars! The Columbia Masterworks LP by Eugene Ormandy and The Philadelphia Orchestra. Edited March 27, 2016 by toolz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 On 3/24/2016 at 11:52 AM, Chris A said: There was a direct-to-disc phonograph recording of Romeo & Juliet by Sheffield Lab done in the late 1970s by Doug Sax with Erich Leinsdorf and the LA Philharmonic that was my test disc. No mastering on that recording. The dynamics were difficult to keep the needle in the groove and the loudspeakers from sounding "loud", i.e., in my non-Klipsch era using planars from the early 80s to the mid-2000s. That recording is spectacular still, if you can ignore the ticks and pops that have built up over 3 1/2 decades of use--something that I've always found difficult to do. Chris I'm listening to a two-CD set of these same recordings--Leinsdorf and the LA Philharmonic playing Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet plus Stravinsky's The Firebird, and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, Die Walküre, Der Götterdämmerung, etc. These are the most live CDs that I own. They were produced direct-to-tape then transferred to CD with no mastering. These two discs are my new CD reference for orchestral recordings. Caveat emptor applies: they're extremely dynamic recordings--much more than anything else in this genre that I've heard. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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