CDs with heavy, fast bass and/or long drum solos


Due to a variety of circumstances, I find myself in the position of needing to break in the woofers below 80hz of my primary speakers (VSA VR-7s). Any good, well-recoded CD's or points to an existing thread on this would be appreciated

I heard a disc from Norway at RMAF on the 4th or 5th floor of the Atrium tower that was incredible, but can't remember the name of the disc. It was playing pretty loud, so I'm sure a number of others heard it as well. If anyone wrote down the name of that disc, please reply here.

ALso please note - I am not interested in Test discs or warble tones - I want real music.

Thanks a bunch
fplanner2010
I second MoFi's suggestion of the Sheffield disk. It is available from Acoustic Sounds in both cd and xrcd form.

Following the release of the Sheffield Track Record in 1982, which is one of the two originally direct-to-disk lp's which are included on the cd and xrcd (the other being the Sheffield Drum Record), Harry Pearson proclaimed it to be "absolutely the best sounding rock and roll record ever made." I think that a good case could be made for that still being true today.

Regards,
-- Al
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Kazumi Watanabe - (Mobo I, Mobo II, Mobo III Splash)
Marcus Miller Bass
Will Lee Bass
Omar Hakim Drums
Steve Jordan Drums
Sly Dunbar Drums
Kazumi Watanabe Guitar, Synth

Soulive - (Doin' Something, Steady Groovin')
Killer Organ, Drums, Guitar and Horns

Yellowjackets - (Shades)
Ricky Lawson Drums
Jimmy Haslip Bass
Robben Ford Guitar
Russ Ferrante Keyboards

John Mayer Trio
Steve Jordan Drums (Killer Drum Tracks)
John Mayer Guitar (Killer Guitar solos)
I forgot Jimmy Smith's (w/Stanley Turrentine) "Prayer Meeting". It's an RVG, so some here may disapprove, but I think it's a very fine quality recording of Jimmy Smith organ music, and - if you like this kind of stuff - the program materal is absolutely fantastic.

Marty
I concur with the Marcus Miller suggestions and was going to mention Bela Fleck's CDs (like Flight of the Cosmic Hippo).

BUT, if you want to test the limits of your loudspeaker's bass response and push those woofers, I suggest you run a little S.M.V. through it. "S.M.V" stands for Stanley Clark, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten and their appropriately named 2007 release "Thunder". It's a killer.