Sound Q’ Buffs

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I bought the Focal Demo CD....Its what they use in MECA to judge SQ events....All the tracks are recorded very clearly, and there are different types of music on there to be able to bring out different aspects of the system....(Mids Highs Lows Etc) Very good cd...

Other than that I like to use Steavie Ray Vaughan's Music to setup....His song "The Sky is Crying" has everything in it needed to setup a system....

Making the World A Louder Place

any tracks from theses albums:

aja by steely dan

for the love of you by candy dulfer

future shock by herbie handc**k

aliens ate my buick by thomas dolby

ive used all of these for sound quality demos.....ill try and think of some more later....

u  basically want songs that were recorded good and that are not over equalized and over processed

For some good percussion, check out Mickey Harts; Planet Drum.  It has some incredible imaging and soundstage and the percussion covers the whole audio spectrum.  This includes a giant earth drum on track 7 that resonates at 32 Hz.  Another one to check out is Kodo.

I recently picked up Nickel Creek on SACD.  I am very impressed with the quality of the sound.  It is all acoustic, so it is very clean. 

I also really enjoy the live version of Hotel California by the Eagles. 

A great CD for sub bass duties is the Fifth Element soundtrack.  It has some very deep stuff, and the opera vocals are incredible.

I also enjoy the Gladiator soundtrack mentioned above as well.

Steven Kephart

Adire Audio

it just sucks that there isnt any decks that can play sacd formats, or are there?

There aren't, yet.  But I'm sure once SACD wins out against DVDA, we will start seeing them.  My boss actually wants to modify a home audio SACD player and use it in his truck.  Then he will be the first person we know of to have one in the vehicle.  But even still, I have an SACD player at home and we have an SACD player on two of the three systems here at work, so it is still worth it.  Plus we only buy hybrid CD's so they work on any CD player.

Steven Kephart

Adire Audio