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A song "benchmark" for every audiophile to test headphones and/or speakers. Music. Some years ago an audiophile guy suggested me this song to get for headphones and speakers test. Since then, whatever I purchase regarding sound, it's the 1st "test" to my ears. The reasons are obvious, very clear instruments with acoustic bass and acoustic ...
These are the 15 songs that I use to grade headphones for my listening pleasure. Pantera - Mouth for War (Such heavy groove) Miles Davis - Freddie Freeloader. Boyz II Men/Mariah Carey - One Sweet Day (The baritone to Mariah) Al Di Meola, Paco de Lucía, John McLaughlin - Mediterranean Sundance/Río Ancho. Warren G - Regulate (One of the best ...
Headphones that sound overtly warm tend to have a thickness in the 200Hz range, and you should hear it. Then from 1KHz, you go up sequentially all the way to 20KHz. Listen for noticeable dips and spikes. Some headphones will dip around 2~3KHz, and many tend to have significant dips or peaks between 4KHz and 8KHz.
Even the best reviewers will review their headphones using their current favourites. It's the best way to actually understand what is different from the older pair you had, the only way you will know how because it will suit your use case 1:1. Listen to get lucky by daft punk. EXTREMELLY well produced album.
Mark Lettieri – Red Dwarf. This song can give you all that needs to test any head- or earphones, even, acoustics. Beautifully arranged and recorded. Bass deepness, bass speed and punch, ability to play speedy things, mids (bass guitar and guitars) highs (hat and cymbals), scene width. Check it out by yourself.
12- Massive Attack - Atlas Air (Hard to let this one out. Damn good song. Massive Attack is amazing to try any kind of tech. Clear as day, no distortion, really deep bass and soundstage) 13- Natalia Lafourcade - Danza de Gardenias (Beautiful harmony, instruments are all over the place in a perfect way.
Some tracks I check often: Fall - m83 and daft punk. The initial vocal I can easily tell how highs are rendered (im a bit treble sensitive) and the first drop will tell me how dynamics are delivered. The drop is a bit compressed but has better separation depending on the chain. Take5 - Dave Brubeck.
Approximate overall ranking of Grado headphones based on comparison scores on 10 acoustic tests. ALTERNATIVE APPROACH - BINARY COMPARE Due to the nature of a three-way comparison, the difference between two headphones, as represented by numerical score, can depend upon the identity of an unrelated third headphone in the comparison.
Fatoumata Diawara - Fatou. Rïncïnn - Lïan. Astrix - Red Means Distortion. Supertramp - Breakfast In America. The Eagles - Hotel California. Mandragora - Codeine. I'm sure there are more great albums out there that I'm forgetting, but these are some of the albums I'd recommend for testing headphones.
Robert Plant's voice covers a large area of upper mids low treble, so good test for that 1 to 3 khz presence region. Drums are very soft on this song, so it has minimal bass. This is helpful when played through bass lite headphones to determine if the little bass that is present sounds natural.