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Music for testing equipment speakers, headphones..

There is a very interesting discussion going on at the CA forum about real music suited for tuning or testing speakers and headphones; here is the Link;
http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f8-general-forum/music-testing-audio-equipment-24230/
and a quote from the big introduction article naming a number of recordings best suited for various tasks;
1. Carmen Gomes inc; '' I'm on fire'' from Thousand Shades of Blue
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Placement is perfect on this young audiophile classic as well as the near perfect natural recording of the voice, but the real test for audio equipment when listening to this recording is it's ability to separate the kickdrum from the upright bass.
The two instruments are playing the same pattern. On less than optimum equipment it might be difficult to separate the two, but with good setup you clearly hear the upright at 10.00 and the kick dead center with a nice decay that one generally do not hear on commercial recordings.
There are lots of speakers and headphones with ''extended lows'' but low with definition is a whole different ballgame.
2 Alban berg Quartet; Bartok String Quartet no.1 in a minor 1th movement. (LP,EMI)
in the beginning of this movement the 4 instruments all play mainly in the same middle and upper register. Despite all that mid and high information the music should not sound harsh.
This recording has the same perfect sound stage as the Carmen Gomes recording.
We believe that this kind of sound stage with such a sense of depth and realistic placement is only attainable when you are recording the musicians in one room at the same time.
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kefas
ejr1953
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2015 was a year of major audio system upgrades for me, including moving my system from our 13x24 living room (with a pair of stand mounts) to a 24x26 "man cave", for a few months, shopping for a pair of floor standing speakers.

In addition to bringing along a bunch of excellent-sounding CDs, I also brought a 1982-era CD of Mozart's Violin Concerto #3, The Beatles  "Sgt. Peppers" and Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run", as these CDs had an "edge" to their sound, and I didn't want to select a speaker that was fatiguing to listen to my musically great, but maybe not the best technical quality stuff in my music library.

As a result, I rejected a number of excellent, but "unforgiving" speakers.
kefas OP
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a 1982-era CD of Mozart's Violin Concerto #3


which one is that?
kefas OP
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I have the Carmen Gomes as a 96/24 download from Sound Liaison but a friend of mine bought the Thousand Shades plus a couple of more CD’s straight from Carmen herself. You can just google her.....ok I’ll do it....
there you go;http://www.carmengomes.com/

But the 96/24 download really sounds superb. That you can get here; http://www.soundliaison.com/
kefas OP
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Even better is the DXD sampler, "THE VISUAL SOUND"
https://www.soundliaison.com/index.php/536-sound-liaison-dxd-music-sampler
 with several "One Microphone Recordings" on it.

Of special interest to the audiophile community might be tracks 2, 3, 6 & 9.These tracks have been recorded using just one microphone the Josephson C700S.

The advantages of the One Microphone approach to recording are obvious: perfect imaging, great sense of depth, superior realism and phase coherence. The phase coherence makes them ideal for optimizing speaker placement and finding the optimal listening position, the sweet spot.





kefas OP
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