Let’s put together a list of music that you consider to be great to test a car stereo system’s performance. What do you like to use to evaluate a system?
Rather than a specific song (or source) I prefer listening to multiple sources; and while I may not have quite the discerning ear of many of y'all I'm very happy with Honda's (Elite) default system.
Pink Floyd "Dark Side Of The Moon" album, especially the song "Time". Great song for evaluating the bass response of any system. Alan Parsons was the recording engineer on this album and its considered to be one of the finest recordings and engineering mixes in rock history. Not bad for a 47 year old recording.
Great list! For the 1812 Overture, the best version is on the Telarc Digital label, which has the actual cannon fire. I think I’ve got the CD. Gotta dig it out now.
Some great ones here, you can see by all the answers that music is a personal thing and "what moves" one person not gonna please the next, meaning the short and simple answer is "Whatever you favorite artist or song is"!
For the ones old enough to remember, music used to be about the musical artist themselves and the message they were trying to covey. Music was created by Musicians, talented ones! The 60's and 70's featured the greatest guitar players, drummers, keyboardists, etc, as it was truly the Age of Musicians!
Predominantly starting in the 80's and pretty much dominating all popular music today, it was all about the Choreography! It no longer mattered if you were an excellent musician, as everything is pretty much created via synthesizer, what matters is that you have a bunch of dancers that can move in unison to your babbling lyrics about the boy that dumped you or some mindless Rap song, which again replaces guitar solos with rhyming words mumbled about putting women down, making money or your cool shoes!
SORRY, I needed to vent...
The remaster CD of Pink Floyd's Darkside of the Moon is an excellent choice, both Time (when all kinds of clocks go off) or Money (with the intense clanging of coins) sound awesome on a nice stereo system.
They actually asked this recently on a music that I am a part of and I said:
The drums POUND, the bass THUMPS, the guitar SCORCHES and the vocals are CRYSTAL CLEAR... The people whom I have played this CD for, in my PP with my upgraded speakers, get this big smile on their faces and shake their heads in amazement!
Some great ones here, you can see by all the answers that music is a personal thing and "what moves" one person not gonna please the next, meaning the short and simple answer is "Whatever you favorite artist or song is"!
For the ones old enough to remember, music used to be about the musical artist themselves and the message they were trying to covey. Music was created by Musicians, talented ones! The 60's and 70's featured the greatest guitar players, drummers, keyboardists, etc, as it was truly the Age of Musicians!
Predominantly starting in the 80's and pretty much dominating all popular music today, it was all about the Choreography! It no longer mattered if you were an excellent musician, as everything is pretty much created via synthesizer, what matters is that you have a bunch of dancers that can move in unison to your babbling lyrics about the boy that dumped you or some mindless Rap song, which again replaces guitar solos with rhyming words mumbled about putting women down, making money or your cool shoes!
SORRY, I needed to vent...
The remaster CD of Pink Floyd's Darkside of the Moon is an excellent choice, both Time (when all kinds of clocks go off) or Money (with the intense clanging of coins) sound awesome on a nice stereo system.
They actually asked this recently on a music that I am a part of and I said:
The drums POUND, the bass THUMPS, the guitar SCORCHES and the vocals are CRYSTAL CLEAR... The people whom I have played this CD for, in my PP with my upgraded speakers, get this big smile on their faces and shake their heads in amazement!
I’ve got a slight memory issue, so I appreciate the contributions to this thread. As you’ll notice, I started the thread, but didn’t offer up my own suggestions. It’s a story for another conversation. ?
Sad as it may be, I overlooked them on purpose, being the best sounding Big Band has zero interest to me, I do delve a bit into Classical music however...