I use a recording of a 1920s steam train crashing into a pile of pea gravel.
What source do you use to demo equipment?
Hello. After decades of enjoying my home audio system, I find myself beginning to look for my final end-all dedicated music system. So I am beginning to look at speakers, amps and source components.
The question is: with all of the new streaming services and hardware, when you go into an audio salon, what do you listen to as your baseline music and via what format? I used to take a few CDs along, which were familiar to test the musicality of equipment. With all of the streaming and source hardware variables, what do you use? I had an experience recently where I had a salon queue up a familiar song via their streamer and it sounded horrible. It lacked any dynamics compared to what I was familiar with. I went home and listened to it on my streamer and the same thing. It sounded terrible compared to the CD version.
So how do you get the consistency of sound for listening tests? What sources do you listen to when testing?
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@cooperdude6 Today I used the CD layer a MoFi Super Audio SACD of Patricia Barber's Verse tracks 5 -7 and a 2016 remaster of Linda Ronsdadt's Mas Canciones tracks 6 & 7 to audition a pair of Dali Oberon 5s. I used these disks because the store didn't have a vinyl setup within the vicinity of the 5Si and would also require a familiar phono stage like my Icon Audio which they couldn't do. I used a Naim Nait 5Si integrated which I also have and the store's Naim CD 5Si as the source. I like the sound of that player by the way after hearing it along with it's simple functionality! Needless to say I bought the speaker's and can't wait to set them up with my 5Si and the rest of my system in our listening room. I will update my profile soon. |
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