headphones
home system
car

could be a different song for each, maybe you have a few. i do think they best songs are the ones you are the most familiar with but there are definitely some better choices than others.

there's simply nothing better....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOzcSGXSGAE

not really my element but definitely a good one for testing a system or just bumping.

play that before I buy to see if the grandeur is intact

definitely going to add it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgQeAKkegOg

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never heard it before. dont really see it as a headphone track, maybe my headphones are lacking

it's really the only place I listen to music. Even at home, I usually listen to my cans...or surround sound in the basement. Mostly, though...it's headphones at the gym.

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRU5KVqfJBs

something that has all the musical elements and bangs.

lately, this has been my headphone tester so I can hear the voices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRU5KVqfJBs

Y'all buy those labels, I was born supreme

here's the other song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzEK61siu5A

Y'all buy those labels, I was born supreme

dope vocals and thumping bass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWsvkW6rKkQ

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDLDVPV8kDE

that has to knock with a system with decent bass.

The song - and then the entire album.

This part for the drums and cymbals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG2seugAgnU#t=5m10s

Black Cow has very nice echo - itrest to see how "airy" it feels:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzrDs_Vaho4

Thne Peg, especially for the cymbals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI7NDDQLvbo

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it's got a lot of elements that a good system only enhances.

Marvin Gaye - Let's Get it On. It doesn't really check the bumps, but the amount of vocal layers that a good system reveals is pretty amazing.

Dead Prez (Hip Hop) or some Outkast (Return of the 'G') is probably my hip hop sound system test music.

In a generation of swine, the one-eyed pig is king.
-Hunter S. Thompson

the inaugural bass drop.

..whoever produced/did the drum programming on that one went IN!

"The more a country produces..the richer it is...the better it should take care of it's people. - Dr. Aleida Guevara"

meaning you are more likely to find the bass really hits on your average commercial song vs the average "underground" hiphop track. always exceptions out there.

I almost blew my last car speakers the day I got it, I had that shit cranked all the way up, nervous & excited at the same time; but you should've seen the smile on my face though.

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>headphones - Something with good balance. Nothing particular though. I pick whatever I'm feeling at the moment.
>home system - Something I've made typically.
>car - My go to: D.O.C. No One Can Do it Better or Anything Rick Ross. Good lows.

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specifically with full orchestra and vocals. The first thing I'm checking for is how the system sounds across the full frequency range AND the full dynamic range, along with you accurate the stereo field sounds.

So I'll listen to something like Pavarotti's recording of Nessun Dorma, or the finale of Handel's Messiah (Worthy is the Lamb). Big, sweeping orchestral classical music with vocals will have a huge dynamic range, and you'll hear if there are any gaps or weak spots in the frequency spectrum.

Once I know I'm good on that, I'll check to see if the system KNOCKS, and I'll listen to some Dilla like Pause or Chronic 2001 by Dre. Dilla and Dre by far have the best mixed drums in hip hop IMO.

that was my litmus test in the 90's

and that song still goes hard in the paint

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for me i think...

if and when i get the amp and sub installed in my car thats what i want to listen to. take a cruise and listen a playlist of his. then ill go to some specific songs by others.

busta needs to be in there.

theres a few cypress tracks that have a section where the bass switches up and really hits for a few seconds. i used to have a home system that sounded soooo good in those sections. never heard the songs like that since that system.

many gangstarr songs really, thats probably another playlist i would cruise to in the first week.

i think i bought full clip the day that a friend got a new system in his car and he actually let me play it when we left the spot lol dude was only into radio stuff.

love the beat switch ups, different tonal ranges.

last time i bought a car. There are a few songs i have to skip, so you're right - DJ Quik playlist is probably the way to go.

In a generation of swine, the one-eyed pig is king.
-Hunter S. Thompson

that song has to be in the initial playlist.

or

I Heard It Thru The Grapevine

YOU HEAR EVEDYTHIN!

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future cut - stealth (domination) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21TldW_f65I

pure filth

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Actually the whole "Fancy Dancer" album, but you said pick one, so...

Now I just rock the Klipsch 2.1 desktop speakers at home, Apple pack-in buds and take public transit/Uber, so this was kind of a fun exercise to scratch my brain and remember. To best of my ability, I think the songs were....


Young Jeezy - "Bang" (I love how this song travels back and forth from high to low range constantly)

Gucci Mane - "Hold That Thought" (this was a go-to for testing bass levels/balance because there were some pretty poor, and pretty good, masters of this song depending on what tape you sourced it from)

Pavement - "Grounded" (had a nice slow pace with some quiet-loud-quiet dynamics that always felt like a good rock music benchmark)

Pantha du Prince - "Saturn" (the whole point of this record, This Bliss, was to feel cool driving your car, and this was the feelingest coolingest of the cuts on there)

Clipse - "When the Last Time" (that shift from the intro to the beat proper sounded flat on most home radios and stock car speakers at the time, so I knew the system was good if it hit a home run out of that transition instead of a bloop single; this was an "oh I didn't know how much music was hidden in the low range" classic)


DAMN, forgot the big one. Whenever a friend got a new speaker system, or the three times I did, we were followers of the "break them in" school of thought that they'd get a bit warmer after some extended use. After a week, we'd get together, roll a blunt in total silence, burn that thing about halfway down and then queue up the intro to Big Boi's Speakerboxxx. Can't believe I forgot that one, to this day that song stands out as a creme de la creme bass test. You'll know right away if your balance is off when that shit kicks off.


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Stupid highs, ridiculous bass, everything clearly defined and I know the song. It unfolds itself quickly too. You get some strange looks though, ha ha.

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Two songs that I've heard so many times...I know exactly how they should sound.

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but.....

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If it doesn't knock with that song I don't buy


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