What music tracks do you guys use to test your audio?

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Originally Posted by jeffb335 (Post 16278361) But if you are going to try to "hear" issues the first song that jumps to my mind as its long been used as a demo track by us audio guys is Dire Straights: Money for Nothing, about 1 minute into the intro there is a drum crescendo with the drums panning from left to right and back. In a properly setup system those drums will sound like they are up on the dash, the bass should be up there too....and it should knock your head off! Muddled uneven left to right frequency response will have the bass pull back and be uneven as it pans back and forth. Another example I think you could hear it on, but for a different reason....Social distortions latest album, "hard times and nursery rhymes".....at the beginning of the song "Gimme the Sweet and Lowdown", Mike Ness's voice is mixed pretty bottom heavy and falls right into the area where the underseat woofers take over for the door mids. It also has two distinct guitars tracks on the left and right channels, When its wrong the vocal gets a bit boomy and "thumps" on the harder syllables, this also pulls the vocal down and it looses its focus. I spent a lot of time with this track tuning my current system, playing with crossovers and getting things EQed right so that the transition between speakers is smooth...resulting in no thumps and the vocal staying high and centered while not screwing up the guitar tracks in the process.

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Originally Posted by kaigoss69 Nice post Jeff! I am well aware of the Money for Nothing track, it is one of my favorites for testing stereo mid bass. Another great one is "Say Goodbye" by Dave Mathews Band, from the Central Park Concert album. The drum solo at the beginning of the track pans from left to right and back, over and over again, an awesome experience on a good system.

I recall them making posts like that awhile back, and it got me to wondering, what are some of your favorite tracks the rest of you guys use to test out your audio systems? And for what reasons?