Ultimate test track

[admin_exported]

If you had to choose one single track that you use to see what your (or a prospective) hi fi system is capable of....what would it be?

No real reason for the post , just a bit of fun.

Don't forget. ONE track only.....

 

[crang]

Hi, mine would be

San Jacinto

Peter Gabriel Live

 

[chebby]

Too Shy. Kajagoogoo.

 

[Bodfish]

Keb' Mo' - It Hurts Me Too (off The Door)

 

[Anonymous]

Maria Maria by Santana on the Supernatural cd.

 

[Anonymous]

'Good Time' from Hard Candy by Counting Crows.

Has great left/right channel separation, electric heavy guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards, banjo, vocals, nice bass and I know exactly how I like it to hear.

 

[pioneer7]

Shine on you crazy diamond pink floyd.

 

[Simon Lucas]

Turn Your Lights Down Low from Exodus by Bob Marley and the Wailers.

 

[JoelSim]

Teardrop

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[Dan Turner]

Comfortably Numb

 

[survivor]

Surprisingly mine`s an instrumental and it`s the title track from Asia`s `Aura` album.

 

[Anonymous]

Tiptoe through the tulips, Tiny Tim, does it for me, everytime.

 

[Anonymous]

Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms

By turns rumbling thunder, solo electric guitar, exposed vocals, strong rhythms. It saves having to keep on changing CDs to test different aspects of a system... and it makes my hair stand on end on a good system!

 

[Anonymous]

On Vinyl: The Police - Synchronicity II

 

[Anonymous]

Money, The Floyd DSOTM...........

 

[Anonymous]

NIN - "Even Deeper" from The Fragile.

 

[Gerrardasnails]

Dan Turner:Comfortably Numb

Nice call.

Paranoid Android - Radiohead for me.

 

[DIB]

"Whippin' Piccadilly" - Gomez.

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[davydmx]

"Greyscale" by 2562.

 

[Anonymous]

"Closer" by Kings of Leon from "Only By The Night"

 

[gbhsi1]

15 steps by Radiohead

 

[Anonymous]

Eloy - Pilot To Paradise from the Silent Cries Mighty Echoes album (remastered version)

 

[Naxos]

I KNOW it's two, but for orchestral the opening of Vaughan Williams' Sea Symphony - a whopping big grandiose sound, and probably for rock "Words" by Doves - a great feel-good track, but not perfectly produced so it can really sort out a good system.

 

[v1c]

Hotel California - Eagles

 

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone - first post! For me, it has to be Fear of Life by Sam Brown from 43 Minutes - It's been my CD reference track for over 15 years.