What's the one song you listen to in order to determine the quality of a pair of headphones?
What's the one song you listen to in order to determine the quality of a pair of headphones?
Matthew Allen
Juan Wood
I normally just put on Loveless, I think that's a pretty good album for determining of headphones are good.
Ayden Kelly
But that album's mushy and compressed.
Nathaniel Perez
lonesome crowded west just because its the album i know best
Landon Morgan
White Light/White Heat.
Benjamin Gray
OPN - Americans
Xavier Edwards
I try to use songs that have a lot of panning on both sides...
Or, just has two different, far panned vocal tracks:
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Easton Morales
I put on Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Camden Morris
RATM self-titled
Dylan Long
Dan Deacon - When I Was Done Dying
Isaac Robinson
Aja
Anthony Ross
Same here.
Dominic Bennett
Public Enemy- Shut em down
Isaac Price
Can someone recommend me a good hip hop testing song? One that came out in the last 10 years?
Dylan Barnes
Partrician choice
Grayson Murphy
this might actually be the worst album to test a sound setup with. the album purposely has no dynamics.
Bentley Bell
Just listen to one you're really familiar with
Samuel Ortiz
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The track is made up of so many delicate textures, and a good pair of headphones gives them all good enough room to breathe.
Anything off of Danny Brown's Atrocity Exhibition. Each and every little sound has a lot of character on every track.
El-P's past two solo records have also come out in the last ten years (I'll Sleep When You're Dead and Cancer 4 Cure.) Powerful driven bass, with El-P's personal signature style on display where the production sounds very sparse on the surface but is actually very dense upon a closer listen.
If instrumental stuff counts, anything from Flying Lotus that's a little on the chaotic side. With lower quality listening devices, those faster crazier tracks can easily seem rather mushy with how upfront each of the many sounds are, but higher quality headphones give them more room to breathe.
Ryder Cooper
In the Flowers
Concrete Walls by Fever Ray
Helicopter by Deerhunter
Anything off of Cosmogramma
Hudson Green
>Atrocity Exhibition
Yes, this. I broke my headphones and had to listen to this with a shitty pair of old ipod ear buds the first time. Listening to it again afterwards was such a treat.
Aiden Gray
This and Gaucho
Austin Richardson
Just put on any Edvard Greig I have, gives you a pretty good sense of the what the headphones can do quickly.
Bentley Hall
Austin Harris
oneohtrix point never - betrayed in the octagon
Isaac Lewis
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Thomas Ward
Usually something by Freezepop as they are a great headphone group. But Omar Rodriguez-Lopez works too.
Easton Howard
Feel Me (Intro) by Big Boi
Kayden Gray
Steely Dan - Black Cow
Luke Campbell
Depeche Mode - World in my eyes
Luke Turner
i like u
Ethan Smith
I use James Blake - Limit to Your Love for seeing how it handles bass but for general quality just a lot of things I know well.
Brayden Barnes
ELO's Time
Justin Thomas
Lel I was just about to say Interstellar Overdrive
Aiden Watson
yoooo
James Thomas
Ayyy
John Peterson
Ayyyyyyyoooo
Jose James
feel good inc or cd rips that i put on my phone
Dominic Gutierrez
Excision's System Check is nonironically the really good to test shit like this desu
Thomas Mitchell
Beastie Boys- Intergalactic
Brody Carter
Something from the Minutemen
Matthew Rivera
My friend said that Bohemian Rhapsody is the superior headphone testing-song
Cooper Reed
My favourite songs for testing:
The United States of America - The American Metaphysical Circus
The United States of America - Cloud Song
The White Noise - Love Without Sound
The White Noise - Your Hidden Dreams
Preoccupations - Anxiety
Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place
La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream Remix)
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Thousand Knives
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Penguin Cafe Single
Burial - Rival Dealer
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
Ahmad Jamal - Swahililand
Angel Gomez
patrician
Jaxon Collins
Audio engineer here, I came to post this. Objectively well mixed and after you train yourself you can tell everything about a listening system by testing with Rage's s/t
Luis Gutierrez
Death Grips - Guillotine as a compressed Midi file
Lucas Gonzalez
Storm - gy!be
Colton Bailey
One of the recent ones: Clark - Back to Belgrade
The subtle background noises and the heavy bass/synth in the middle is just perfect.
Alexander Allen
Ultralight beam.
William Bailey
The Glory - Kanye West
>Can't study war
Kayden Mitchell
bongripper - hail
Henry Gomez
Everything's in Its Right Place and Kid A (the track)
If I love how they sound on those tracks, then I know I'll enjoy them.
Cameron Campbell
I never learnt to share by James Blake
Jace Scott
Alexander Butler
meme
Xavier Roberts
Im kind of ashamed to admit it, but mine is Empty Space by The Story So Far
Alexander Hall
The Roots - You Got Me
Unnnf.
Cooper Hernandez
KID A IDEOTEQUE
Gavin Gonzalez
Bentley Bailey
Jayden Edwards
Fight Fire With Fire or The Final Command
Brody Brooks
Merzbow
Parker Martinez
Jon Hopkins - Immunity
Ryder Brooks
I was listening to those tracks and then some emo metal shit pops up with the white noise...