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What do you like to test your system with? My personal favorite, now don't laugh, is Extreme's "III Sides to Every Story", Song #4 - "Color Me Blind" AWSOME Vocals and Acoustics. The CD is also very recorded VERY well. If you have not listened to this CD or at the very least song, Download the MP3 and test your system. Regards ------------------ Michael Amisano 1998 SVT Contour E1 5785 of 6535, Black 'n' Blue Mods: MSDS Y-Pipe Receiver: Kenwood CD HeadUnit w/5v Pre-Outs and Sub control, Speakers: Polk DB 6 1/2" Seperates in Front, 5 1/4" in Rear, 10" SAS Tube, AMPS: Sony 50x4, Sony 75x2 @ 200x1 Radar Detector:Valentine One New Engine: 09/00 @ 42K Thank You Extended Warranty!Waiting for Install: MSDS Headers, Granatelli 75mm MAFS, KKM mamisano@optonline.net
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I've got a pair of test CDs from Crutchfield to help with imaging/crossover stuff. Other than that, I use stuff like Fuel for clarity and some Beastie Boys for testing the sub 
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I have a CD with test tones, sine waves track 1-50 = 1-50Hz, then up the scale to 99 = 20kHz.
Music CDs? U2 Joshua Tree covers quite a range, and vocals. Matchbox 20 CD's have some good tunes, most unreleased. And Tom Petty's Learning to Fly is a complicated piece that sounds good on my system.
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This is long so if you have trouble reading, here is the gist of it, Collective Soul
I like to use Collective Soul. They record very cleanly, so much, in fact, that I can turn my system to max with no distorting. Everything is just crisp. Also, they use a great variety of instruments (piano, violins, many different guitar types. Thier first CD (Hints, Allegations and Things Left Unsaid), although good, isn't as complex as thier later stuff. Thier 2nd (Collective Soul) really picked up. I still think overall, this was thier best Album. There are no bad songs on this CD. They started using other instruments like pianos. The third Album (Disciplined Breakdown) was recorded in a cabin on a computer while the band played downstairs, resulting in the dirtiest sound of CS's albums, but it still has some great tracks and sounds as clean as most CDs. The fourth CD is the cleanest sounding CD I've ever listened to. This was the mellowest CD CS released, and used alot of piano and violins. Thier latest CD (Dosage) has more bass than the others, and even has Elton John playing piano on one track, but this isn't one of thier better CDs in my opinion. So, as you can obviously tell, I'm a fan. You really should try thier CDs though. They aren't too heavy, but they don't ever get too mellow either. Tastes great! Less Filling! or, if you remember the chunky soup commercials, Fork! Spoon!... yeah... that will do... heh! heh!... the fools!... they won't even see it coming when the great pig bomb falls... Hello! I like stuff! Wanna see my stuff?... oh, wait, the doctors said I shouldn't go around showing my stuff to people anymore... they give me a poke of sleepy juice when I do that... I get them too...
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Yeah, Collective Soul is some good stuff. I've got their 1st and 4th albums, they sound reall, really clean.
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My favorite test CDs are as follows:
Santana, Supernatural: has great percussion,midbass and range, not to mention great sound quality.
Jacques Loussier Trio, Plays Bach: Incredible CD, great fusion of jazz and classical, great recording quality, incredible drum solos.
Al DiMeola,Paco DeLucia,and John Mclaughlan,
Friday night in San Francisco:
An older recording, but incredible flamenco guitar and great imaging/separation.
Eagles, Hell Freezes Over: Again, great sound quality, nice acoustical guitar.
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Santana:Supernatural-Track 13...for precision Don't laugh...but...Mariah Carey:Butterfly-T 03 'My All'...for clarity and depth Guns 'n' Roses:GNR Lies-T 05 'Patience'...great for detecting noise, very quiet recording IASCA Competition CD-All tracks...Good for testing everything, subs too Louis Armstrong:Priceless Jazz Collection-T 16 'What a Wonderful World'...Again, clarity ------------------ Brad Wilson 1998 Silver Frost SE brantleyiii@earthlink.net Photopoint Album-(Updated 4/20/01)
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Surprised no one has mentioned Madonna, some of her music (actually a TON of it) is extremely dynamic.
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I do infact use Madonna (imaculate collection..disc is great, has all types of beats) Mariah also is great for vocals. Another soft quite track for noise is Angel by Sarah McLachlan. Flashdance is always a good track too.
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Great guys, keep it coming! ------------------ Michael Amisano 1998 SVT Contour E1 5785 of 6535, Black 'n' Blue Mods: MSDS Y-Pipe Receiver: Kenwood CD HeadUnit w/5v Pre-Outs and Sub control, Speakers: Polk DB 6 1/2" Seperates in Front, 5 1/4" in Rear, 10" SAS Tube, AMPS: Sony 50x4, Sony 75x2 @ 200x1 Radar Detector:Valentine One New Engine: 09/00 @ 42K Thank You Extended Warranty!Waiting for Install: MSDS Headers, Granatelli 75mm MAFS, KKM mamisano@optonline.net
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