What's the one song you listen to in order to determine

I normally just put on Loveless, I think that's a pretty good album for determining of headphones are good.

>>71209364
But that album's mushy and compressed.

lonesome crowded west just because its the album i know best

>>71209312
White Light/White Heat.

OPN - Americans

I try to use songs that have a lot of panning on both sides...

Or, just has two different, far panned vocal tracks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edL_kNErIuw

I put on Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

>>71209312
RATM self-titled

Dan Deacon - When I Was Done Dying

Aja

>>71210753
Same here.

Public Enemy- Shut em down

Can someone recommend me a good hip hop testing song? One that came out in the last 10 years?

>>71210813
Partrician choice

>>71209364
this might actually be the worst album to test a sound setup with. the album purposely has no dynamics.

>>71211379
Just listen to one you're really familiar with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL01DG1PC6k

The track is made up of so many delicate textures, and a good pair of headphones gives them all good enough room to breathe.

>>71211379
Anything off of Danny Brown's Atrocity Exhibition. Each and every little sound has a lot of character on every track.

El-P's past two solo records have also come out in the last ten years (I'll Sleep When You're Dead and Cancer 4 Cure.) Powerful driven bass, with El-P's personal signature style on display where the production sounds very sparse on the surface but is actually very dense upon a closer listen.

If instrumental stuff counts, anything from Flying Lotus that's a little on the chaotic side. With lower quality listening devices, those faster crazier tracks can easily seem rather mushy with how upfront each of the many sounds are, but higher quality headphones give them more room to breathe.

>>71209312
In the Flowers
Concrete Walls by Fever Ray
Helicopter by Deerhunter
Anything off of Cosmogramma

>>71211559
>Atrocity Exhibition
Yes, this. I broke my headphones and had to listen to this with a shitty pair of old ipod ear buds the first time. Listening to it again afterwards was such a treat.

>>71210813
This and Gaucho

Just put on any Edvard Greig I have, gives you a pretty good sense of the what the headphones can do quickly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTrAeoAtYxU

oneohtrix point never - betrayed in the octagon

Usually something by Freezepop as they are a great headphone group. But Omar Rodriguez-Lopez works too.

Feel Me (Intro) by Big Boi

https://youtu.be/QRU5KVqfJBs

>>71209312
Steely Dan - Black Cow

Depeche Mode - World in my eyes

>>71210712
i like u

I use James Blake - Limit to Your Love for seeing how it handles bass but for general quality just a lot of things I know well.

>>71209312
ELO's Time

>>71210748
Lel I was just about to say Interstellar Overdrive

>>71210813
yoooo

>>71210813
Ayyy

>>71215822
Ayyyyyyyoooo

feel good inc or cd rips that i put on my phone

Excision's System Check is nonironically the really good to test shit like this desu

Beastie Boys- Intergalactic

Something from the Minutemen

My friend said that Bohemian Rhapsody is the superior headphone testing-song

My favourite songs for testing:
The United States of America - The American Metaphysical Circus
The United States of America - Cloud Song
The White Noise - Love Without Sound
The White Noise - Your Hidden Dreams
Preoccupations - Anxiety
Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place
La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream Remix)
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Thousand Knives
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Penguin Cafe Single
Burial - Rival Dealer
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
Ahmad Jamal - Swahililand

>>71210753
patrician

>>71210753
Audio engineer here, I came to post this. Objectively well mixed and after you train yourself you can tell everything about a listening system by testing with Rage's s/t

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>>71209312
Death Grips - Guillotine as a compressed Midi file

Storm - gy!be

>>71209312

One of the recent ones: Clark - Back to Belgrade

The subtle background noises and the heavy bass/synth in the middle is just perfect.

Ultralight beam.

The Glory - Kanye West
>Can't study war

bongripper - hail

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Everything's in Its Right Place and Kid A (the track)

If I love how they sound on those tracks, then I know I'll enjoy them.

I never learnt to share by James Blake

>>71209312
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j84HK0ZZtY

>>71210813
meme

Im kind of ashamed to admit it, but mine is Empty Space by The Story So Far

The Roots - You Got Me

Unnnf.

>>71209312
KID A IDEOTEQUE

>>71209312
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DcDGCkCoBY

>>71209312
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8DKusXE1S0

Fight Fire With Fire or The Final Command

Merzbow

Jon Hopkins - Immunity

>>71218516
I was listening to those tracks and then some emo metal shit pops up with the white noise...