Have now installed the new Q Acoustics speakers and started to run them in.
Quality so far is light years ahead of the old Mordaunt Shorts so can’t wait to get them cranked up (I will wait though…)
So, what are some good tracks to test them out properly?
I’ve gone for the floorstanders as I’m hoping to get away with out a sub (for a while).
There is a song on the first Scissor Sisters album with a very strange sub-tone riff that absolutely destroys my speakers like no other track. Not sure which one of top of my head (just checked it is “can’t come quickly enough”). Not an especially great track but seems to find the limits of my speakers at relatively low volumes.
Otherwise I like Red Hot chilli Peppers, “Under the Bridge” to test speaker quality across the full range.
Yes Yellow Shark is a good one as is “Ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch” if you want a more rock vibe.
Frankie’s “Pleasure Dome” too but if you want to know how accurate your setup is try the BIS recording of Durufle’s “Four motets on Gregorian themes”. No it has nothing to do with baked goods.
Nobody dislikes Collins more than me, but including him in a headphone test kind of makes sense – his sort of music is all about production.
As an aside, a modern day Judgment of Paris type question:
If you met Sting, Bono, and Collins but you could only punch one of them in the face which would you choose
As an aside, a modern day Judgment of Paris type question:
If you met Sting, Bono, and Collins but you could only punch one of them in the face which would you choose
I’d punch Bono in the back of the head but tell him that Phil did it. Sting is a Geordie so as soon as Collins hit Bono back, he’d jump in too. Then I’d stand back and admire my work
Your best bet is to listen to a load of stuff you’re really familiar with, that will tell you if they’re making a good representation of the music versus just hearing how loud they go. Posted a couple of YT links, may be to your taste or not but I find them a good test. You’ll want to use decent quality streaming or preferably flac files if you can though, youtube will likely be the weakest link in your chain.
These three are a solid bass test:
And the next two have those vocals that should sound as if they’re right in front of you:
Bonus filth, this just sounds like a mess on subpar speakers:
Enjoy your new kit!
Edit: of course I didn’t embed the videos properly
Edit edit: turns out trying to embed doesn’t work, just posting the link does, happy days
A couple of good one in there. Thanks people.
I particularly like the Dead Prez and the David Arnold thing (you need to listen to it in it’s entirity all of it).
I’d like to know which scissor sisters track it was, I prefered Abbot’s version of Atmosphere and I completely got rickrolled (again). I didn’t try the brown thing.
