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07-13-2003, 01:30 PM
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Good tracks for checking soundstage and imaging
Hi guys,
Can someone recommend me good recorded tracks to check speakers' soundstage and imaging, I really appreciate your help.
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07-13-2003, 02:26 PM
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Patricia Barber - Cafe Blue Done by Mobile Fidelity (SACD preferably). Simply an excellently recorded disc. If you can audition with SACD, the 2ch SACD layer is stunning, but even the CD layer is amazing. I like to use tracks 11 and 12. There is a lot of presence in the recording, and you should get a good sense of where you are relative to the musicians, particularly on those two tracks.
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07-13-2003, 08:22 PM
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I like to use the Dolby Digital tracks on my James Taylor: Live at Beacon Theater DVD. Not only is it a very well recorded disk, You can listen to it in Dolby Stereo, or 5.1. The Video transfer is also very clean, sharp and saturated. I use it for a demo disk.
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07-14-2003, 12:24 PM
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If you are going to use a DVD, then Diana Krall: Live in Paris (DTS) and Eagles: Hell Freezes Over (full bitrate DTS), are great.
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07-08-2008, 03:40 PM
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Re: Good tracks for checking soundstage and imaging
Any more recommendations?
I happen to have Patricia barber's Cafe Blue, terrific CD, if a bit too sibilant (no, it's not my system, I've used it as a test CD and felt the same way everywhere I heard it.)
Track 11 (Nardis) is my favorite. I picked up the album after I heard it on some $12K Dynaudio towers at the HES in NYC a couple of years ago. Sublime.
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07-08-2008, 05:46 PM
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Re: Good tracks for checking soundstage and imaging
Something that always impressed me in the past - I haven't checked to see if it held up on the recent DVD release - was the opening of STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - original version. The musical introduction, the destroyers launching the probes, people running around on the ice-planet, Han riding through the hanger-bay, talking to Chewie, and then going into the base control room.
A decent stereo pair will recreate as convincing a sound-stage as a discreet digital system, if you're sitting in their "sweet spot."
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07-08-2008, 08:38 PM
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Re: Good tracks for checking soundstage and imaging
I've always liked the way the 2.0 version of Silver Springs from Fleetwood Mac's "The Dance" sounded. The backup guitar seems to float around the room. Lindsey plays a pretty good lead too, BTW  . Also, a well played and recorded piano seems to sound really good to me, though I can't pull up an individual example at the moment. Must be getting old  . |
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07-15-2008, 01:59 PM
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Re: Good tracks for checking soundstage and imaging
Any more?
This forum is full to the brim of folks going on and on and on about "soundstage this" and "imaging that" and midrange this" and "highs that" and you can't even recommend a couple of measly CDs? 
Eric Clapton Unplugged is an excellent recording.
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07-15-2008, 05:49 PM
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Re: Good tracks for checking soundstage and imaging
Roger Waters' "Amused to Death" has the most enveloping 2-ch sound I've heard. A well-set up system/room will image fully 90 degrees to your left and right, well beyond the speakers, as long as you're precisely in the sweet spot. Huge fan of his solo work, so I can easily just melt into this one.
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07-15-2008, 07:20 PM
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Re: Good tracks for checking soundstage and imaging
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Originally Posted by Jack Gilvey
Roger Waters' "Amused to Death" has the most enveloping 2-ch sound I've heard. A well-set up system/room will image fully 90 degrees to your left and right, well beyond the speakers, as long as you're precisely in the sweet spot. Huge fan of his solo work, so I can easily just melt into this one.
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It's on this list: SoundStage! Reference Discs
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