Chris, problem with testing bass response with percussion only is that the sound is somewhat unpitched. You may also want to try some well pitched bass lines.... for example, the Edgar Meyer performance on double bass of Bach's prelude from the cello suite #5, or Antonin Dvorak's "In The Old Castle", played on what appears to be a Bosendorfer grand piano, by Inna Poroscina from the Brilliant Classics 4-CD set of complete Dvorak piano works. And if you have a recording of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, possibly conducted by Pierre Boulez, you will find the nether regions of the massive percussion and bass brass score quite delicious, and yes .... droning to boot. For monitoring mid bass bloom, my standard candle is the double bass line in the Bernstein performance of the 2nd movement from Dvorak's New World Symphony' with the Israel Phil.
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