Bass audition for your system....


Hello All,
Anyone tried these before?

Track:  "Slang" by Brian Bromberg.

Track:  "Carry on Wayward Son" by Brian Bromberg.
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Sure, those are easy ones.
Try some stuff off of Stanley Clarke's "At the Movies" or if you really want some LF try Bass Addiction's "For Whom the Bass Tolls"

Do some remixes by Seal. Just a beautiful, beautiful variety of bass/LF effects he uses.

Go old school to Sting's "A Thousand Years" and see if you system can even reproduce the opening extreme LF before the instruments start in. I guess that most audiophiles don't even realize the unbelievably low frequency information that resides in that opening. Most systems cannot even reproduce it. 

Marcus Miller is really fun to hear on a good system.

It's really dreck, imo, but there is some fun lower bass in Lorde's "Royals" and tracks off of Daft Punk's "Random Access Memories"

Some nice upright bass with Gregory Porter's work such as Liquid Spirit.

Kyle Eastwood has some good work; I like some selections from the Paris Blue album.

Philipppe Saisse has a surprising amount of electronic LF in his music. One of my favorite albums by the Rippingtons in years is Fountain of Youth, which has quite a strong electronic substrate.

etc. etc. Several of these suggestions can be handled well enough by nearly any system, and some will not be reproduced well unless you have an extreme rig.

Imo, less than 10% of audio systems can handle all of these with aplomb, with no constriction in frequency or dynamics.
+1 @douglas_schroeder 

Imo, less than 10% of audio systems can handle all of these with aplomb, with no constriction in frequency or dynamics. 

on top of that, less than 10% of the untreated rooms will allow you to hear the LF as intended.

In other words, it is quite unlikely to hear what was actually recorded.
Saint-Saenz organ symphony. Towards the end when the organ kicks in. I would say a good system should rattle your guts with that one but the bass should still sound like an organ note and not just a wave.

Also, for precise, well recorded and produced bass listen to Steely Dan's Two Against Nature album. The song by the same name is probably the best test.

There are several songs on Sting's Soul Cages with extreme but well produced bass as well.

Empty Pages by Traffic has a heavy, jazzy bass line augmented by kick drum. However, there is some intentional distortion in those notes so it might not sound as tight as you might like but that's not the system, its the recording.