Only two tracks to test your system, forever!

Jain - "Makeba"

Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Voodoo Lake"

All good suggestions. I’m trying to think of only TWO songs that can provide all of the following:

1. Dynamics.
2. Soundstage and imaging.
3. Frequency response.
4. Bass textures.
5. The critical midrange - female and male vocalists and most instruments sounding natural.
6. Top end clarity and air without harshness.

This is fairly hard to do. I can think of numerous songs that test one or the other, but not all of these qualities. But it is a good exercise for those lucky enough to actually have a bricks and mortar store nearby so we can hear amps, speakers, streamers and such before making a purchasing decision. While many stores will entertain you playing a couple tracks they’d likely not let you listen for an hour - unless you kick them some $$ in upfront "good faith" money, which isn’t a bad idea anyway for their time and trouble.

Funny that no one mentioned Cheapaudioman Randy's test track of choice, Tool's "Chocolate Chip Trip" for soundstage and imaging. 
 

"Letter" - Yosi Horikawa

"Run" - Abe Rounds

"Rust Belt Fields" - Slaid Cleaves

@mjmcubfn Tidal’s search is just as bad. Leave out anything and it won’t find it. They really do need to incorporate a level of "intelligent closeness" and offer suggestions better. And oftentimes I do better by searching for the song title rather than the artist.

Whoever mentioned Patricia Barber, thanks. I need some "audiophile grade pap" like her on this cold, grey, gloomy, rainy December day.  Never had heard of her. And whoever mentioned Deeper with its 25Hz bass, thanks. Good finds. At least something "new" to me. Bass extension is important. 

 

Tiger Prowl - Cualli

War of the Worlds tripod emergence scene