Best Tracks for Bass Testing..

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I always play Alicia Keys - Try sleeping with a broken heart.

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This is a nice one too.

You may find the stereo version on a music streaming service - I prefer the 5.1 LPCM version from the Blu Ray disc.

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Marcus Miller playing the bass guitar on Zoolook album by Jean Michel Jarre. Most speakers are having some troubles there.

Some good suggestions already, to which I would add:

Bela Fleck & the Flecktones - 'Flight of the Cosmic Hippo'

Caroline Lavelle - the entire 'Spirit' album, but particularly the tracks 'Turning Ground', 'Dream of Picasso' and 'Waiting for Rain'

Trentemoller - 'Chameleon' This has about three bass lines vying for supremacy!

I was listening to the group Cowboy Junkies the other night, mainly "Whites Off Earth Now" and "The Trinity Sessions." The last track on WOEN, Crossroads, has a deep, slow electric bass line that underscores the whole piece, and in general this album has incredible depth and reverb as well as deep bass. Not blow your head off bass, but deep, slow, articulate bass. On "The Trinity Sessions" it was recorded in  church I believe, and if you have good bass response on the quiet sections you can hear a deep, low volume rumble from the air conditioner in the building.

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Blade Runner soundtrack.

Cooker wrote:

Blade Runner soundtrack.

Good call. The CD I have of this is recorded in Dolby Pro Logic. On a decent surround sound setup it sounds spectacular, even though it's only Pro Logic it truly demonstrates the potential of multi channel audio. 

I have the current limited edition version on red translucent vinyl. Some of the lowest, if not the lowest  frequencies you will ever hear from vinyl. Goes to 25hz on Side 2.

Cooker wrote:

I have the current limited edition version on red translucent vinyl. Some of the lowest, if not the lowest  frequencies you will ever hear from vinyl. Goes to 25hz on Side 2.

Interesting, I was unaware it existed on vinyl. My CD version on a surround system just provides the most incredible enveloping sound field, the music is very ambient to begin with. And of course Blade Runner is my favorite movie of all time. Back when it came out I was young and single and the date I took on it was expecting something science fiction (which to her meant ET: The Extraterrestrial) and since it had Harrison Ford in it she expected a cross between Indiana Jones and Han Solo. A disappointing evening for both of us, she hated the movie, and if the lady isn't happy you for sure will not be happy! I loved the movie and wanted to talk about the symbolism and such, not happening, when I looked over at her during the initial scene where Leon is tested her brow was knitted and she looked confused. Oops.

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