This is what turned our 9's a bad shade of orange.

http://youtu.be/My2FRPA3Gf8

Saying that Lee, just watch any scene from Mad Max Fury road. It's just about 120 of bass loaded car chase.

Nothing else

Hi all,

My reference track is:

Art of noise ,  The seduction of Claude Debussy , track #13  Out of this world ( version 138).

Only with very good speakers you will hear all the details.

Basses are going very deeeeeeeeeep and glasses start dancing in your cupboard.

Rudy

 

 

 

Rammstien !

The intro to "ich tu dir weh"

That will knock your woofers / subs😁

And will end up with the police at your door for disturbing the peace😕

My son introduced me to Jay Z and Kanye West, Watch the Throne. not my kind of music, he bought the USD 110.00 double LP, I was blown away, really, a superb grabbed and edited piece. specially the tracks with heavy bass. We played it on my BG 5000 pizza box MMC2, BM 4400 and M70 speakers, a perfect combination for these LPs. I have never heard my M70s bring out so deep and clear a bass, I had to take off the fronts to see the woofers working more than ever before I have never seen a woofer working like that. I never got afraid of damaging the woofers, the bass came out distinct and clear, no distortion what so ever. The BM was set to line, so no extra bass or treble was used. Mids and highs was perfect sounding, except for the tweeters, at volume level 8 they started distorting a little. (At volume level 8 my neighbor came in with a couple of beers)

We then connected a pair of H8 headphones, different sound, not at all as over the speakers, the bass came out deep but like cut off a little and in the highs were missing some very small tingle pingle sounds, not bad but over the speakers better. 

So if you want to test your bass, get this album

Soren

There is nothing better than watching a speaker "work for it's keep".

I only wish I could afford beolab 5's

Good topic!

Of course, the traditional: Time off Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon

I have a recording of Antal Dorati and the Minneapolis Symphony doing Stravinsky's Rite of Spring that is digitally mastered and has some of the most authoritative bass drum whacks ever. With my BL9s it'll nail you back in you seat.

The album "Time Warp" by Telarc is a collection of various science fiction themes, from 2001 to Battlestar Galactica, and has some incredible bass.

I have a recording called "The Mysterious Film World Of Bernard Herman" that includes music from the films "Mysterious Island" and "Jason And The Argonauts" that is stunning. Herman used massed orchestras with doubled percussion and bass sections. Oddly enough, the LP version has better bass, which is counter-intuitive, and just shows the CD was not mixed as well as it should be.

Two albums by Chick Corea:

Romantic Warrior - by Return To Forever, from when that was Chick Corea, Al DiMeola, Stanley Clarke, and Lenny White, especially the track "Sorceress."

The Mad Hatter - later album by a few years, but in the opening section some serious synth bass diving very very deep. We used to listen to this on the only electrostatic speaker I've ever heard that had bass, the old Koss Model 1, which had like 18 square feet of bass radiating panel per speaker, but in most other ways as a pretty quirky, troublesome beast. Never sold one in the years I worked in the shop! But it did do bass.

There is a great playlist on spotify by Geoff Martin for demonstrating bass (also playlists for treble, mids, punch, vocals etc). Well worth checking out if you have spotify. A few of the Daft Punk tracks off the Tron legacy album sound excellent.

9 LEE wrote:

which tracks they consider to be the best for testing Bass on their existing equipment, or potential purchases, from Headphones to Subwoofers to Loudspeakers!