Your SQ testing songs?

[MattiasNYC]

I would be more than happy to speak more about the record vs compressed recordings but this is just not the place. Feel free to start another thread if you feel the need is there.

Since you brought the link up I'll do that. I would like it if you chimed in if you have time. Sorry for the off-topic, but I thought the 'correction' was valid and reasonable.

If you were closer i would invite you over for a listen to both on my main system.

I would actually have liked that. I'm sure it'd be a nice experience.

[Donnie27]

Since you brought the link up I'll do that. I would like it if you chimed in if you have time. Sorry for the off-topic, but I thought the 'correction' was valid and reasonable.



I would actually have liked that. I'm sure it'd be a nice experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WojopwjrsnY

A bud has a remastered studio versions of this and others (game songs) like Incoming that blew me away!

[Donnie27]

Since you brought the link up I'll do that. I would like it if you chimed in if you have time. Sorry for the off-topic, but I thought the 'correction' was valid and reasonable.



I would actually have liked that. I'm sure it'd be a nice experience.

Oh. one more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UzHnoSc8D0

[Soulburner]

I tend to favor game and movie soundtracks for sound quality testing. Examples include:

Transformers
World of Warcraft
Crysis 1/2/3

Nine Inch Nails tends to also be very good, as is Rammstein

[MattiasNYC]

I know this is somewhat besides the topic, but there's certainly a good reason for why one could argue that some sound isn't appropriate for testing sound quality of a playback system. A very uneven, dense and heavily compressed piece certainly stresses the playback system in certain ways, but it does nothing to show other parts of it. Imaging tends to be harder to perceive as well as the depth of the soundstage not to mention the ability for the system to reproduce a wide range of dynamics.

So I would personally not use action films of the Transformers "kind" or "loud rock music" for checking actual quality.

Of course, the end goal is pleasure so if one subjectively thinks one system sounds better with the type of media one consumes then for all practical purposes it IS better.

[Soulburner]

I know this is somewhat besides the topic, but there's certainly a good reason for why one could argue that some sound isn't appropriate for testing sound quality of a playback system. A very uneven, dense and heavily compressed piece certainly stresses the playback system in certain ways, but it does nothing to show other parts of it. Imaging tends to be harder to perceive as well as the depth of the soundstage not to mention the ability for the system to reproduce a wide range of dynamics.

So I would personally not use action films of the Transformers "kind" or "loud rock music" for checking actual quality.

Of course, the end goal is pleasure so if one subjectively thinks one system sounds better with the type of media one consumes then for all practical purposes it IS better.

That's what I'm going for. A subjective, non-scientific test.

But you might be surprised. There are many passages that are not all loud or rock, but much more subtle. I choose music with a large dynamic range.

I also test with classical.