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What kinds of music?
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What kinds of music? Q1.) What Kinds of music do you all listen too?
Q2.) What kind/type of music do you Like/Recommend for Demo or Reference Material?
I like Most kinds of Music. The only Type I can't get into is Country. Rap has also Lost it's appeal to me as of lately. Favorits: House (Chicago), Metal, Alterantive is what I listen to mostly.
I have a Set of Referance disks from Autosound 2000 I use and have a collection of Songs that I'm EXTREMELY familiar with to tune a system.
My Tops for Dynamics testing is
Bush; Sixteen Stone , Glycerine
VAST; Touched (I recommend for those who like the Cure, Deftones. Only Nude, and Self Titled Album)
These will push the limits of the Entire Sounds systems. They get progressively lounder and louder. Both cresendo out into a Large out out Afront ont the Ears.
Vocals:
Eric Clapton: Tears in Heaven Good for feeling emotion in a Man's voice.
Marvin Gay: Anything from him, but I love "What's Going On" Supreme Classic.
Alicia Keys.
That's what I can think of off the top of my head.
Q2.) What kind/type of music do you Like/Recommend for Demo or Reference Material?
I like Most kinds of Music. The only Type I can't get into is Country. Rap has also Lost it's appeal to me as of lately. Favorits: House (Chicago), Metal, Alterantive is what I listen to mostly.
I have a Set of Referance disks from Autosound 2000 I use and have a collection of Songs that I'm EXTREMELY familiar with to tune a system.
My Tops for Dynamics testing is
Bush; Sixteen Stone , Glycerine
VAST; Touched (I recommend for those who like the Cure, Deftones. Only Nude, and Self Titled Album)
These will push the limits of the Entire Sounds systems. They get progressively lounder and louder. Both cresendo out into a Large out out Afront ont the Ears.
Vocals:
Eric Clapton: Tears in Heaven Good for feeling emotion in a Man's voice.
Marvin Gay: Anything from him, but I love "What's Going On" Supreme Classic.
Alicia Keys.
That's what I can think of off the top of my head.
I actually use both, but rely on reference discs for tuning purposes, since I am familiar with what it should sound like..........repetition! (Sheffield, Cheskey, etc)
However, I do mix some instrumentals/vocals/mixed recordings to properly test the freq spectrum for accurate reproduction. This would include jazz, contemporary, country, and progressive.
Some of my favorites:
Boney James (sax)
Eagles (When Hell Freezes Over) "Hotel California"
Eric Clapton (Chronicles of Clapton)
Allison Krauss
King Singers (occapello)
Marc Cohn
Carly Simon (Greatest hits)
...and for sound pressure, Usher "hey" (hits my frequency perfectly)
I am a head-banger from way back in the 1970's, but nothing beats the classics
However, I do mix some instrumentals/vocals/mixed recordings to properly test the freq spectrum for accurate reproduction. This would include jazz, contemporary, country, and progressive.
Some of my favorites:
Boney James (sax)
Eagles (When Hell Freezes Over) "Hotel California"
Eric Clapton (Chronicles of Clapton)
Allison Krauss
King Singers (occapello)
Marc Cohn
Carly Simon (Greatest hits)
...and for sound pressure, Usher "hey" (hits my frequency perfectly)
I am a head-banger from way back in the 1970's, but nothing beats the classics
Last edited by Firehawk526; May 25, 2005 at 08:21 PM.
I'm more into the heavy metal and hardcore metal right now. Some bands I like, ummmmm, atreyu, as i lay dying, avenged sevenfold, killswitch engage, and some other underground bands. I also like old school metal, like metallica, pantera, slayer, sabbath, etc. But thats just to name a few.
i listen to a pretty wide variety of stuff....
heavy metal (Pantera, White Zombie, Fear Factory, ...)
death metal (Bolt Thrower, Malevolent Creation, Entombed, Obituary, ...)
thrash metal (Megadeth, Slayer, Sepultura, ...)
rock (Creed, Godsmack, Alice In Chains, ...)
classic rock (The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Eagles, ...)
alternative/grunge (Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Jane's Addiction, ...)
rap (Eminem, Tupac, Mystikal, Nelly, ...)
industrial (Prong, Nine Inch Nails, KMFDM, ...)
trance/goa techno (Astral Projection, Growling Mad Scientists, Talamasca, Alien Project, ...)
then there's stuff that only fits into a category called "original & unusual", some of which i like the best over most other stuff (Primus, Ween)
i can't STAND country whining...errr....music, don't do gospel/holy music (being that i'm atheist/agnostic/pagan/whatever), and i wanna VOMIT every time i hear some
boy group/girl group teeny-bopper crap.... so as you can probably guess, i never listen to the radio.... 
as for source material for tuning my system, pretty much any song/instrumental that has a wide variety of sounds within the same song, like songs that go from quiet to loud, fast to slow, mellow to "all hell breaking loose". electronic/industrial type music is good for tuning with when done properly, because of the sheer range of sounds that can be created.
heavy metal (Pantera, White Zombie, Fear Factory, ...)
death metal (Bolt Thrower, Malevolent Creation, Entombed, Obituary, ...)
thrash metal (Megadeth, Slayer, Sepultura, ...)
rock (Creed, Godsmack, Alice In Chains, ...)
classic rock (The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Eagles, ...)
alternative/grunge (Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Jane's Addiction, ...)
rap (Eminem, Tupac, Mystikal, Nelly, ...)
industrial (Prong, Nine Inch Nails, KMFDM, ...)
trance/goa techno (Astral Projection, Growling Mad Scientists, Talamasca, Alien Project, ...)
then there's stuff that only fits into a category called "original & unusual", some of which i like the best over most other stuff (Primus, Ween)
i can't STAND country whining...errr....music, don't do gospel/holy music (being that i'm atheist/agnostic/pagan/whatever), and i wanna VOMIT every time i hear some
boy group/girl group teeny-bopper crap.... so as you can probably guess, i never listen to the radio.... as for source material for tuning my system, pretty much any song/instrumental that has a wide variety of sounds within the same song, like songs that go from quiet to loud, fast to slow, mellow to "all hell breaking loose". electronic/industrial type music is good for tuning with when done properly, because of the sheer range of sounds that can be created.
Originally Posted by Richiec77
Q1.) What Kinds of music do you all listen too?
Originally Posted by Richiec77
Q2.) What kind/type of music do you Like/Recommend for Demo or Reference Material?
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These might be old but...
Steely Dan - Aja and The Best of Supertramp for general.
Rebecca Pidgeon - Spanish Harlem or a Shawn Colvin disk for being able to nick right down to clear vovals with a known (meaning not too over engineered) background.
These aren't meant to float your boat as much as give you material that you can relate to in terms of clarity.
That said, where can I get a copy of this Sheffield disk? Is it a test disc or an artist?
Steely Dan - Aja and The Best of Supertramp for general.
Rebecca Pidgeon - Spanish Harlem or a Shawn Colvin disk for being able to nick right down to clear vovals with a known (meaning not too over engineered) background.
These aren't meant to float your boat as much as give you material that you can relate to in terms of clarity.
That said, where can I get a copy of this Sheffield disk? Is it a test disc or an artist?
Originally Posted by RickO
These might be old but...
Steely Dan - Aja and The Best of Supertramp for general.
Rebecca Pidgeon - Spanish Harlem or a Shawn Colvin disk for being able to nick right down to clear vovals with a known (meaning not too over engineered) background.
These aren't meant to float your boat as much as give you material that you can relate to in terms of clarity.
That said, where can I get a copy of this Sheffield disk? Is it a test disc or an artist?
Steely Dan - Aja and The Best of Supertramp for general.
Rebecca Pidgeon - Spanish Harlem or a Shawn Colvin disk for being able to nick right down to clear vovals with a known (meaning not too over engineered) background.
These aren't meant to float your boat as much as give you material that you can relate to in terms of clarity.
That said, where can I get a copy of this Sheffield disk? Is it a test disc or an artist?
I have it at home, will try to find info tonight and post up.
Originally Posted by '02 WS/6
Hell yeah!! "Shock" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/cus...Fencoding=UTF8
Here ya go. It is not available anymore. I open my case and the damn thing is gone. I have to see if I can find my back up cd.
Here ya go. It is not available anymore. I open my case and the damn thing is gone. I have to see if I can find my back up cd.
