songs to show off comps

[mwokram 10+ year member]

I know theres been older threads about this but I figure why not have an updated list. But I figured since I just got my setup done, Id like to really hear the best out of them.

So what songs do you guys use to show off the highs, lows or anything of your comps?

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[tEh koRnDog 5,000+ posts]

Rick Roll.

 

[oldschool4me 10+ year member]

80s, the cars, rush, etc....

 

[mlstrass 5,000+ posts]

"when the water breaks" by Liquid Tension Experiment. Killer drums and very dynamic, but no vocals...

 

[06cobaltssorang 10+ year member]

bass i love you by bassotronics

and pretty much the whole bass mekaniks cd

 

[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

bass i love you by bassotronics and pretty much the whole bass mekaniks cd

Your comps can play 30hz?

 

[DBDRAGGUY 10+ year member]

Phil Collins- "in the air tonight", Genesis- "I cant dance". Dire straits-"money for nothin". Eminem-"stan". Kid Rock-"drunk in the morning". Just about anything off the TLC crazy, sexy, cool album:slap:. Eagles- "Hotel California":beathors:. These are just a few that I use to tweek and tune and find the range of the front stage.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Soundtracks I've used...

Black Hawk Down

Gladiator

Chariots of Fire (probably one of the best for tweeter staging)

Chronicles of Narnia

Anything John Williams touches...

Individual albums...

Eva Cassidy - Songbird/Live @ Blues Alley

Eagles - Hell Freezes Over

Deanna Bogart - The Great Unknown

Dave Matthews - Some Devil

Chris Izaak - Forever Blue

Allison Krauss & Union Station - Live

Dire Straits - pretty much anything by them, Making Movies, Love over Gold, Sultans of Swing, etc...

Rush - 2112, Moving Pictures

Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom

Just a tiny start there...

 

[Etac 10+ year member]

i dont really like em but this song is great for showing off your speakers...

chimaira - implements of destruction

boondock saints theme isnt bad either

 

[mikey7182 10+ year member]

Just about anything by Days of The New, and Hotel California (Live Version). Alan Parsons Project, Mudvayne (double bass is killer)...

 

[Etac 10+ year member]

another thing - i think a good band to tune your system too is the foo fighters... for some reason if you can get their songs to sound right (learn to fly - monkey wrench - times like these) your speakers will sound good on almost anything...

the way they record seems to draw out flaws in your setup IMO (if any)

ohh and a couple other good songs:

guns and roses - sweet child o'mine

freedy johnston - bad reputation

five for fighting - 100 years

goldfinger - superman

tom petty - free falling (this song is nuts on my system - every instrument seems likes its coming everywhere but from the speakers..)

 

[BringDaBoom 10+ year member]

Classical music is awseome. Get some good recordings of some Mozart or Bach orchestral stuff. I use that, Salsa, or stuff like Sublime to show off my coaxials. Works great.

 

[Etac 10+ year member]

a lot of pearl jam and stone temple pilot songs are good too

even flow

better man

jeremy

interstate love song

plush

vasoline

 

[CrossFired 10+ year member]

YELLO!! Pocket Universe and The Eye are there best SQ cd's.

 

[bdavies11 10+ year member]

Ants Marching - Dave Matthews