ITT Albums you use to test headphones.
ITT Albums you use to test headphones
Asher Martin
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Dominic Gomez
The Visitor by Jim O'Rourke. The production is fantastic, the instrumentation is very diverse and there is a lot of dynamic range. Perfect for headphone listening and testing.
Jonathan Phillips
This is perfect, and it has such a wide range
Thomas Clark
Great album but not the best for testing headphones. It's practically lo-fi, most of the tracks are mastered from bedroom cassette recordings.
Jonathan Harris
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Jack Brooks
Are there good headphone for lo-fi?
Eli Taylor
Baroquesque and maximalist to the point of being too intense if you're not used to it: Multiple timbres, textures and intensity (loud vs quiet), and I know it by heart.
Alexander Hughes
This is one of the most well-produced albums I have ever heard
Luke Brown
Bohemian Rhapsody is all you need to test headphones
Jaxson Butler
If you want to try something electronic, try this. It's an excellent mix of deep-bass techno with prepared acoustic instruments. Guest vocals from Panda Bear one one track.
Michael Thompson
>maximalist
Grayson Thomas
What were you attempting to achieve with that post, user
Michael Reed
MBDTF is often called maximalist so it could qualify for this thread.
Michael Clark
t. le music defender
Henry Sanders
I have a special equipment testing playlist, here's it for all of you.
For those of you who use Apple Music: itunes.apple.com
Jack Martin
>MBDTF is often called maximalist
Haahah, no shit? Wow. Wow. I guess I'm behind the times and the definition has changed at some point.
Luis Morris
The Downward Spiral - NiN
Especially March of the Pigs
Dylan Ross
Defener*
Adrian Brooks
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Logan Hernandez
Mastered like absolute shit
Ageispolis is a great low-end testing track.
Christian Green
Yeah, but that's why I use it to test headphones. If they're your average earbuds, it'll just sound like bedroom casettes, but with good high end headphones, it makes it sound much richer and well mastered
Easton Brown
Nice!! Pretty good list
I wish more rock albums sounded as good as clear as this
Hudson Hill
Yes, I can vouch for this, I use Ageispolis as you can see here
Carter Foster
Thanks, man. And I absolutely agree with you RATM's debut is a benchmark for anything rock/metal, or any drums that aren't jazz.
Lucas Moore
youtube.com
This is how you test your bass
youtube.com
This and the whole album is basically excellent for every purpose.
Carter Hernandez
Deafener*
Thomas Mitchell
Anyone?
Colton Smith
Anything Radiohead except AMSP and some songs on HTTT. Also, vinyl IR is much less compressed than CD IR.
Amnesiac, Kid A and OKC sound superb.
Brandon Perez
Specially Kid A
Thomas Cook
>vinyl IR is much less compressed than CD IR
Is this actually confirmed? Would you say it was significantly different enough to make the vinyl worth buying?
I hear a lot of people complain about poor mastering on CD versions but I'm not convinced it's just audiophiles making stuff up.
Landon Martin
>Anything Radiohead
Gavin Rodriguez
great meme post
Christopher Flores
>it's just audiophiles making stuff up.
Listen: Unless someone's trying to explain how 128kbps is unfathomably shittier than 320, everything you hear from audiophiles is made up. The problem is they don't know it's made up and are religiously convinced of every stupid thing they say
Owen Richardson
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Brayden Williams
How's that a meme post? Wht does that even mean anymore? He's clearly suggesting that not all Radiohead is good to test the quality of earphones. Are you even following the thread?
Chase Green
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Ryder Bennett
*embarrassment*
Jack Cooper
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Jace Diaz
>using his worst album
Adrian Lewis
came here to post this, the percussion on here is a good indicator if your headphones are shit or not
Isaac Morales
Well, it does sound nice...
Cameron Murphy
Absolutely. I have the record, when I first heard it, I was blown away. Considering I was also using $400 headphones, but it does sound beautiful.
OK Computer has always been a staple in the audiophile community for instrument separation and clarity, too.
Ian Richardson
Definitely, but using it as a measure for earphone quality is almost as dumb as using this one
Carson Sullivan
dr.loudness-war.info
The 'unknown source' will most likely be the CD rip.but not confirmed. The vinyl rip has significantly greater dynamic range (i.e. less compressed).
Xavier Ramirez
Not quite, that Gang of Four record is much more compressed I believe.
Gabriel Jenkins
>implying he's made anything decent
Jordan Carter
NO, DON'T USE THIS FOR VINYL.
Vinyl tests are skewed and misguiding because the TT meter gives analogue recordings around 3 extra points.
Chase Murphy
>vinyl is literally and expressedly overrated
WHAT
A
SURPRISE
Grayson Cooper
>>vinyl is literally and expressedly overrated
Where did he say that? He just said that using a TT meter to measure dynamic range in vinyl records is unreliable and unrepresentative. Idiot.
Bentley Perry
>unreliable and unrepresentative
Because vinyl is overrated. Imbecile.
Easton Campbell
Don't be a fucking idiot. It's not the record's fault, it's the meter's design and algorithm, which is made for digital, I assume. Sometimes (most of the times, when they are analogue masters), the records do have a greater dynamic range and sound.
Parker Cruz
(not the other guy) what does "dynamic range of sound" mean, anyway?
Connor Young
yesssssss
Josiah Reed
tbf Queen albums are very well produced
Austin Richardson
Yeah but any quality track will do, no need to go for le bohemien rapsoda ecksdee as if it's the culmination of composition and production
Cameron Diaz
The range between the quietest sound on the track and the loudest.
With brickwall compression this range is reduced and sounds shite. Unfortunately this technique is increasingly common in modern music production and mastering.
Christopher Richardson
Dynamic range, in its simplest explanation, is the amount of headroom between a recording's quietest point, and its loudest. Classical music recordings have huge dynamic range because they need it for the performance, you need to be able to hear the difference between the soft flutes or violins, and the overbearingly loud horns, percussion, and cymbals.
In modern recordings, it's the same principle, with different and a lot less instruments. But still, a recording's dynamic range is what makes the drums sound alive for example. Being able to hear that difference in loudness between the hi hats and the rest of the cymbals, the kick drum, etc. It also feels like the music can "breathe", since the soundwaves actually have a lot more space (previously mentioned headroom) to do so.
Look at the picture I embedded and you'll see. This is an EXTREME case, one of the worst I've seen, with an Iggy sound wave for Search & Destroy. In the first one you can actually see the waves and peaks, the second one is just a mushy and squashed brickwall.
Check this video out for a much better explanation: google.com.ec
Hope I could help you out!
Ian Nelson
Space between the quietest and loudest parts of a recording. Brickwalled, highly compressed releases genetally sound more tinny and flat, and are almost entirely the same loudness
Henry Ramirez
>snowden's jig
>genuine negro jig
lol
Blake Wright
Forgot to upload the picture...
Wyatt Diaz
Duly noted
Julian Green
Haha it does sound great, though, nice violins.
Landon Ramirez
Postdata: This has to do with the volume wars of the 90s, rigth?
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Lincoln Martin
so thats why I always have to adjust volume when Im listening to classical. It's always either too quiet or too loud.
Noah Rogers
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Cooper Nguyen
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Jose Thompson
Get better equipment. Also it's really designed for a quiet listening environment
Alexander Gutierrez
Yep, haha, if your equipment (or your ears) handles it well, you shouldn't have to change the volume, at least I don't. What I do is set the voliume on the loudest parts to the maximum I will listen to without it being too loud, then the quiet parts are quiet, but still listenable.
Dylan Davis
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Ian Brown
lol
Isaiah Bennett
Not the other guy, but I sadly have to mess with the volume knob a lot because I'm slowly but noticeably and steadily going fucking deaf. Possibly partly because of this
Alexander King
sorry friend
Dominic Long
That sucks. Thank God I was already into audiophilia at 12 when I first started going to live shows and shit, so I'd put filters in my ears. I also listen to relatively low volumes since my hearing is near perfect and I can consistently hear up to 19khz out of the original 20k. Take care of your hearing people.
Oliver Martin
Do you use open earbuds? Those plus treble heavy music is terrible for your ears
Oliver Murphy
the second half of Gng Bng by flying lotus
John Turner
Depends on my budget at any given time, really. It's too late to do anything about it, so might as well blast music at full volume all the time. I'm pretty sure I won't live to the age of 40 anyway. Gonna make the best of my final decade on Earth and if, due to some extraordinary cosmic overlook, I'm still alive, I guess I'll become a recluse in some hermitage and live in silence for the rest of my days.
I am not good at making life decisions.
Sebastian Stewart
Well what is it
Jonathan Hall
deerhunter halcyon digest
Nicholas Brown
DSOTM
overrated album but might be the best production i've heard
Caleb Rogers
>he hasn't listened to 1930 or Hybrid Noisebloom