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Reference Recordings / Test Tracks
LFF:
--- Quote from: timjthomas on January 13, 2012, 01:22:27 PM ---So what single recording or two is your reference recording -- the one you use to evaluate headphones, speakers, etc.? Why that recording? What do you listen for?
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Single song: Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place
Single Album: Paul Simon - Graceland
I listen for naturalness. If anything sounds too bright, too flabby, lacking, too shrill or too much glare then I know it is NOT the recording. Vocals should sound effortlessly natural. Both have a ton micro-detail that many speakers and headphones fail to reproduce properly. Graceland in particular has a lot of ambiance that is completely missing in a lot of systems.
Marvey:
I wish U2 made an effort to make good recording. Not a big U2 fan (LOL, my favorite U2 album is Zooropa) but still. Their records totally suck from a high-fidelity point of view, except for their very early ones.
Horio:
Some of my usual go-to albums:
Patricia Barber - Modern Cool
Casandra Wilson - Traveling Miles
Kurt Elling - Nightmoves
San Francisco Symphony - Mahler Symphony No. 1, No. 2 or No. 5
Budapest Festival Orchestra - Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
Mariinsky Theater Orchestra - Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3
Pieter Wispelwey - Tchaikovsky: Variation on Rococo Theme
rhythmdevils:
My list of "reference recordings" is really different from my list of recordings I use to test headphones. Not sure which this is supposed to be but both are good ideas for threads. Maybe we should clarify
RexAeterna:
i don't think i have any here to be honest. i just listen to music and know if something sounds off to me or not, but i guess you can say i always used Diana Krall - Live in Paris (2002) for testing overall naturalness in the midrange and sometimes i used lion king album for testing dynamics but that's bout it if that counts. overall though i don't really have much i guess you would consider. ''reference''. i just listen to tunes.
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