What music is your benchmark?

**Labarum** · 24-01-2009, 17:17

What do you use as a benchmark to judge your system and any improvements you might have made.

I first reach for classic piano music, and recordings of the Bach's Goldberg Variations come top of the list.

But this recording of the Goldbergs on the Harp is being pushed on Classic FM

Goldberg Variations

Johann Sebastian Bach

Catrin Finch

Record Label: DG

Catalogue Number: 4778165

Classic FM on a Squeezebox into my Beresford DAC with MOD21

Amazing Clarity- you can hear the pluck of the harp in every note!

What would the CD ripped to FLAC be like?

So what is your benchmark music?

**Puffin** · 24-01-2009, 19:32

I would say that it doesn't matter which type of music one uses to evaluate a system or any change of component. As long as the set of tracks are known to you intimately then any changes can be clearly heard. Whether a system sounds good or bad is a subjective matter. Over the years I have come to like a specific sound. If I hear a system that is not what I like, then I would dismiss it. That does not mean to say that it is bad, but it would not be for me. It could be just the right thing for the man standing next to me.

**Marco** · 24-01-2009, 20:17

It could be just the right thing for the man standing next to me.

What if that man was wearing a chiffon blouse, pencil skirt, blonde wig, and a cheeky wee smile?

Marco.

**Labarum** · 24-01-2009, 20:21

Originally Posted by Marco

What if that man was wearing a chiffon blouse, pencil skirt, blonde wig, and a cheeky wee smile?

Marco.

Do Pantomime Dames have any taste, let alone musical taste?

**Beechwoods** · 24-01-2009, 20:22

I hear that they taste of liquorice...

**Labarum** · 24-01-2009, 20:24

Doesn't liquorice race the heart?

**Beechwoods** · 24-01-2009, 20:27

It does mine

**DSJR** · 24-01-2009, 20:43

Don't like liquorice.....

I have a collection of all sorts of music and I've found that when judging new gear it depends on what I'm enjoying that week...

When I acquired the Crown D 60's and Spendor BC2's a few months ago and once I'd fitted some replacement bass drivers of the correct sensitivity (sincere thanks to Terry Miles), I went straight to some of the albums I first heard on this particular pair of speakers with one of the D-60's in '74-'76 - L by Steve Hillage, Mirage by Camel and Blue Moves by Elton John were the first three, followed by Crime of the Century by Supertramp (my CD copy is a rather dire and bland MFSL one, which has nothing like the life and "verve" of the official A&M issue). Even though this music was on CD (all expertly remastered in this case), all the old memories came flooding back (some tears too I should add) and I was in musical heaven. Plenty of Tangerine Dream followed, along with retro EM group Redshift and with extra internal damping in the cabs, they more than rose to the task, bless 'em....

**Puffin** · 25-01-2009, 08:36

Originally Posted by Marco

What if that man was wearing a chiffon blouse, pencil skirt, blonde wig, and a cheeky wee smile?

Marco.

one with toroidal tendencies?

**Labarum** · 25-01-2009, 08:38

Can we get back on topic?

What music do you use when testing your system?

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