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Grab the Tron Legacy soundtrack. Get it on CD so you get the best quality version out there. The film on Blu Ray is also reference but for audio purposes get the CD. It will push and test your system extremely well. Disney paid for and built Daft Punk a million dollar studio to do the score for the film. I was in audio and the music business for 25 years and spent much of that producing so I’m always up for a reference disc to test a system to its’ limit. Enjoy. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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I honestly don't think you can do this with just 1 song. There's so much diverse and great music out there that can show off a sound system. Led Zeppelin- Ramble On... The part in the song where the music shifts from the right channel, to the left, back to the right... More Led Zeppelin- Rock and Roll, Moby Dick, or When the Levey Breaks. The Who- Won't get fooled again Move over to to some Jazz Drummers: Gene Krupa, Steve Gadd I'd probably toss in "Take 5" by Brubeck Include Phill Collins- In the air tonight Show off some drums. Guitars- Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Clapton Move over to some acoustic guitar- Clapton, Crosby, Stills & Nash. Neil Young Look at some Rodrigo y Gaberela. You need that big, fat sound... That means a horn section. Chicago, Vehicle by the Ides of March, Spinning Wheel, Let it Roll by Little Feat. Then some Classical Music! Kkina brings up a phenomenal suggestion: Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Beethoven, Back, Mozart, Chopin, Tchaikovsky... There's always John Phillips Sousa. Throw in some Eletronic Music- Daft Punk, Depeche Mode Maybe some Dub Step Or you can be simple... Play the beginning of Apocalypse Now. The End, by The Doors. However, you can hear the rotor blades of the helicopters and the explosions. Star Wars, but the scenes with the light sabers, Return of the Jedi, the scene where they are racing thru the forest The chase scene from Bullitt. ______________________________________________________________________ "When its time to shoot, shoot. Dont talk!" “What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy | |||
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Rush YYZ. Lots of high pitch and plenty of bass -.---.----.. -.---.----.. -.---.----.. It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws. | |||
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I used the Blu Ray version of "The Fellowship of the Ring" when I auditioned the Golden Ear Triton 2+ speakers. The scene with Balrog and the escape from the mines of Moria is what I used. There is bass, low frequency effects, a male chorus, shrieks, growls, whispers, strings and finally a female soprano solo... the female solo is when I said to myself "I am going to buy these speakers." I would also recommend any Pixar movie, their sound design is fantastic. The Incredibles has everything you will need to put a speaker through its paces. ___________________ Company, villainous company hath been the spoil of me. | |||
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Absolutely..This was going to be my first suggestion. The first time I heard it on my home system when the drum breaks in after the initial guitar is just amazing! Regards, Will G. | |||
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Shine on you Crazy Diamond ...Floyd Motherless Children...Clapton Stranglehold...Nugent | |||
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We would always plug in Top Gun and watch/listen to the first 10 minutes or so while the Tomcats were being launched. LOTS of low end... "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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You should use the music you like for a demo. Some systems sound are better suited to some kinds of music. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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Steve Gadd has played drums in many genres, including jazz. He’s toured with Clapton for years. _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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I usually use one vocalist, one guitar, one piano and one quartet or symphony. I like to test for dynamics, accuracy and sound stage. Pick something that was recorded well that is very familiar to you. "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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I was going to say exactly this. I have the DVD-audio version with dts. | |||
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Every time I've tested an audio system (mostly in automobiles, but I have a Bang & Olufsen home system as well as several Bose systems) I bring with me a copy of Fourplay's debut album. The opening track, "Bali Run" has everything needed: quiet high-hat cymbals, rumbling bass, sparkling guitar work, and deft keyboard work. The embed link in YouTube isn't allowing me to. So, here's a direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJXMMM5wpuo You can't truly call yourself "peaceful" unless you are capable of great violence. If you're not capable of great violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless. NRA Benefactor/Patriot Member | |||
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"Rondo" - Mannheim Steamroller, Fresh Aire (I) Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Sq5Yc17BY Going vinyl, then the original MFSL pressing of Dark Side of the Moon, of course. I don't expect anyone needs a link for that.  | |||
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Listen to what you like. I’ve also got send Rusted Root’s “When I Woke” album for a good mix and the dynamics. | |||
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Mozart, Flute Concerto No 1, K 313, or his Haffner symphony; or a Bach flute/harp/piano/violin concerto- Op 61, D major is a favorite. Mannheim Steamroller, Fresh Aire II. "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre. | |||
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I'd use something like this myself. ****************************************************************************** Never shoot a large caliber man with a small caliber bullet . . . | |||
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Opening two songs from Metallica's S&M discs Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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I'd probably play a few scores from John Williams, particularly the theme from Jurassic Park. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon | |||
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