Reference Tracks (for fine-tuning audio system)

[msagar]

Please post reference tracks used by you to fine-tune audio system here.
Tracks currently used by me (source: QOBUZ / HDTracks / Linn Records):

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Vocals:
Barbra Streisand - Cry me a River - Live at the Bon Soir
Norah Jones - Cold Cold Heart
Carol Kidd - Dreamsville
Jane Monheit - Home





Instruments (Tonality):
A Meeting Vy the River - Ry Cooder / Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (Guitar and Veena)
Tyshawn Sorey - Night and Day (Live)
Dire Straits - Your Latest Trick (Sax and Trumpet)



Bass/Drums:
Beyonce - Partition
Dave Lombardo - Initiatory Madness / Rites of Percussion
Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks





Double Bass:
Patricia Barber - This Town
Peggy Lee - Fever
Louise Rogers - Black Coffee
Ron Carter - Flamenco Scetches






Soundstage:
Jen Chapin - You Haven't Done Nothing / reVisions
Clark Terry - Pennies from Heaven
Patricia Barber - My Girl

 

[alpha1]

Used these to improve the general well being of the audio system overall and tweaking to improve the sound:

In-phase vs out-of-phase

Left vs right speaker sine wave tones

Sine wave sweep:

Genuine white and pink noise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CCZYiRZNxk&t=48s
(Most of the videos on youtube are heavily EQd noise and thus wrong)

Stereo Bandpassed pink noise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9CtTcUMJhU

Stereo Sound placement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNdhDCv4mzc&list=LL&index=360

 

[msagar]

 

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Top 20 Demo CDs

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[msagar]

Dr.Z's Test CD (Free Download)

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