What are your favorite subwoofer test tracks?

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dave_c

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Re: What are your favorite subwoofer test tracks?
« Reply #20 on: 31 Dec 2008, 09:28 pm »
Magic Mike!!!!  Throw in some Techmaster PEB and you'll have a Miami bass throwdown! :lol:

Seriously though, I like Radiohead - Climbing up the walls (Fila Brazillia remix).

Scott F.

Re: What are your favorite subwoofer test tracks?
« Reply #21 on: 1 Jan 2009, 12:17 am »
On DVD;

The Fifth Element - the early scene where the spaceship touches down on Earth. The bass goes well below 20Hz
Transformers - The fight scene between the two transformers on the hiway. This is the scene that convinced my wife to buy the Aperion subwoofer.

Music;

Nels Petter Molvaer - Khmer, the Remixes
Mouth Music - Mo-Di
Kodo - Mondo Head
Massive Attack - Mezzanine


An item to make note of, the Fifth Element Soundtrack (track 2 - Mondoshawan) and Khmer (track 4 - Song of the Sand II) if played too loud will absolutely kill an incapable sub. With both of these tracks, I have done things like closing the door to my listening room with the air that the woofs push, blowing out candles 6-8 feet away, made things literally move across the tables and shelves upstairs and last but not least blowing sheets of paper across the room. I've killed a number of woofers that can't handle the extreme Xmax requirements of these two songs played at high SPLs.

...but alas, that is all in the past when I used a pair of Adire Shiva woofers in 5+ cubic foot enclosures tuned to 18Hz and then driven by 500wpc of bipolar solid state gear, crossed at 125hz. Nowadays I use 15" Altec 416s big honkin' Alnico magnets in even bigger cabinets (7cuft corner loaded).



...ah, the old Big Fun System.....I sorta miss it  :cry:

Kevin Haskins

Re: What are your favorite subwoofer test tracks?
« Reply #22 on: 1 Jan 2009, 12:50 am »
For output, the movies push the device more than audio.    The War of the Worlds is a classic sub killer.   The exploding world in Hitchhiker's Guide the the Galaxy, and mentioned above, the 5th Element.    I like Phantom of the Opera but played it too many times in a demo and that has permanently ruined my enjoyment of the movie.   

Music doesn't require the sheer output.   I find that musicality has as much to do with the room and how you integrate the device as it does the individual sub.   Anything with a bass line & real instruments are useful tuning tools.   The mastering of audio has so much variance that the low frequency side of things really changes recording to recording.   I wish we had a standard for audio mastering and that all the mastering was done with equipment with full bandwidth in a standardized listening environment.   Then the recordings wouldn't be such a moving target on the low frequency side as they are now.


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Re: What are your favorite subwoofer test tracks?
« Reply #23 on: 1 Jan 2009, 01:13 am »
For movies, Pearl Harbor cracked a 5 week old Cerwin Vega during the bombing scene. It was the 1st and only CV I've ever owned. Got my money back the next day and bought a Velodyne. :)

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Re: What are your favorite subwoofer test tracks?
« Reply #24 on: 1 Jan 2009, 01:22 am »
Test tracks not mentioned....music :

Mino Cinelu - "Mino Cinelu"...track 6 - Oncoming Horizons

Infected Mushroom - "Vicious Delicious"...track 1 - Becoming Insane

Dead Can Dance -"Memento: The Very Best of Dead Can Dance"....track 10 -Yulunga

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Re: What are your favorite subwoofer test tracks?
« Reply #25 on: 1 Jan 2009, 01:38 am »


Seriously though, I like Radiohead - Climbing up the walls (Fila Brazillia remix).

Have you ever found it in lossless or cd form?  All I've heard/found are 192k MP3's of it.  Very cool, though.