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Top 3 songs to evaluate a system

Hi everyone,

So here is the question: what are your Top 3 music pieces to evaluate a system?

The songs should be complementary to cover a wider range of features, but not necessary. If you only listen to one type of music, it would make sense to only evaluate with this type.

Bonus: identify one good part of the piece where you pay extra attention because this is where the difference between systems is more visible.

I'll start:

Holly Cole Trio - Girl Talk - My Baby Just Cares For Me
Highlight: The vibrating cord at 1:59

MaMuse - All The Way - Glorious
Highlight - The clean guitar and the high drum beat that rythm the whole piece

Metallica - ... And Justice for All (Remastered) - One
Highlight - The first drums at 0:53, but the whole guitar as well


Doing this myself, I realize it's very hard to only pick 3!!

papyneau
papyneau OP
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Thanks @hilde45 for being the first. I should have added a double bonus to have song easily available.. like Spotify. I can't find two of the thee pieces proposed. But Shelby Lynne is great and it's really my style of music!

@bigtwin - Excellent point, and is indicate that your strategy is to use "flat music" to evaluate a system. Really something to think about. But which flat song do you use?
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hilde45
4,792 posts
 
@papyneau Nordic 2L is pretty easy to find -- take a look here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/78zkF5WPgizHwoeGmPawy5

They also have free downloads

@bigtwin makes an *excellent* point. I'd say doing both (audiophile and flat recordings) is a good idea.
oldhvymec
5,101 posts
 
I'd say any system that could make Yoko Ono sound OK, is one heck of a system. Anything she has EVER done as far as singing sounds BAD.

As far as a business women, she ain't no dummy, but she was always hard to look at.. My mom would say "Back that one in Son, park her close to the door". :-)

Highwayman by Johnny Cash
Rainmaker by Strunz & Farah
Da Club by 50 cent or Havana by Camila Cabello

They tell me what ever I'm going to listen to is going to sound good or NOT.

Rainmaker is my cable, cap, resistor, tube, tester. :-)

Regards
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tom6897
1,484 posts
 
Nearly anything that was done by Steely Dan, James Taylor, Eva Cassidy and Patricia Barber. Every other minute I can give you 4-5 more excellent choices. So many fantastic artists through the  years!
mrklas
441 posts
 
3 songs:

1.  Everything Counts (Oliver Huntemann & Stephan Bozdin Dub):  Depeche mode is very experimental and this has dynamic sound across the frequency range.  

2.  Let's Dance by David Bowie:  The song has some very busy and relatively quiet sections in the beginning of the song there a horn starts playing in the background - you can tell its a horn by the initial peak otherwise it could be confused with a keyboard/synthesizer.

3.  Hey Nineteen by Steely Dan...excellent recording with a variety of sounds and 'musical density'.

 
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