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Car Audio - Recommended Tweaking & Testing CDs
Testing Limits of Audio System
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Cincinnati Pops Orchestra - "The Great Fantasy Adventure
Album"
Movie soundtracks. Dynamics! Takes your system to the limit. Check the
Jurassic Park tracks for high SPL.
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Kitaro - "Kojiki"
Jazz/Japanese music. Transients in the lower and upper ranges.
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Rusted Root - "When I Woke"
Pop. Lower-end transients (bass and midbass)
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Morphine - "Yes"
Rock. A lot of bass guitar and horns. Will push mids and midbases to the
limit.
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Tchaikovski - "1812 Overture, Nutcracker"
Classical. Dynamics, staging and imaging. Listen to the cannons at the end of
1812 Overture.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Blood Sugar Sex Magic"
Rock. Dynamics, lower end (kick drum and bass guitar should be distinguishable).
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Audio CDs
Collections/Various
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Focal CD: "Disque de Demostration - Focal Automobile -
No 1"
The best reference disk you can own. Different types of music to test staging,
imaging and detail.
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Sheffield/Autosound 2000 CDs - "Drive"
Another great reference CD. Jazz, classical, used to check everything
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Boston Acoustics CDs - Especially the first 3 (jazz mix, bass and
imaging)
They might be very hard to find, but are worth getting.
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Roundup Records - "Roundup the Unusual Suspects"
Sampler - all kinds of music. Transients, vocals, etc.
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Northern Exposure - "Music From the Television Series"
Rock, classical, pop, jazz, etc. Dynamics (track 7), overall balance.
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Chesky Records - "The Collection Series No. 1" and
"The Vocal Collection"
Jazz. Transients, vocals, staging and imaging.
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Albums
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Basia - All her CDs
Jazz/pop. Transients, female vocals.
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Ray Obiedo - "Iguana"
Jazz. Good to test dynamics, bass/midbass transition.
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Acoustic Alchemy - "Back on the Case"
Jazz with acoustic guitars. This CD has a lot of detail for midrange testing.
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Spyro Gyra - "Collection"
Latin jazz. Dynamics, staging and imaging. Use to test limits of midbass
drivers.
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Fourplay - "Between the Sheets"
Jazz. Test bass/midbass transition. Lots of bass guitar.
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Dire Straits - "Money for Nothing"
Rock. If you have any problems in your lower end, the title song will bring them
out.
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Commitments - "Original Motion Picture Soundtrack"
Rock. Test vocals, staging, system dynamics.
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Diane Schuur - "Love Walked In"
Jazz. Great CD to test vocals (midrange performance).
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Nana Mouskouri - "Veille Chansons de France"
Easy Listening. Vocals, high frequency details.
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Cats - "Selections From the Original Broadcast"
Broadway musical. Vocals. Test the limits of your mids, overall balance.
Should sound very natural.
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Guys and Dolls - "The New Broadcast Recording
Another Broadway musical. Vocals and great music.
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