Auditions

[Bicster]

What CD's and DVD's do you guys bring with you when auditioning speakers?

Any suggestions would be helpful, Ive practically used everything I own trying to find a chink in Magnepan's armor. I guess I am just going to have to pull the trigger soon.

 

[outsider]

I use:

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
Tool: Lateralus
Smashing Pumpkins: Gish
Bob Dylan: Highway 61
Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile
Radiohead: OK Computer

there are others I have used, but I can't think of them at the moment.

 

[Shinerman]

Take what YOU know and listen to often. No sense in taking in a CD that someone else mentioned that you have never listened to before or at great depth. Any CD will work that your familiar with.

Shinerman

 

[Bicster]

Agreed, but some CD's have characteristics that can bring out aspects of the speakers that I have yet to hear.

 

[JoeE SP9]

Shinerman has it right. I personally take a variety of music. My taste is rather broad so here goes.
Miles Davis Kind Of Blue
Jacintha Here's To Ben
Stravinsky The Firebird Suite 1919 version (Telarc)
Groove Colective We The People
Hollie Cole Trio
Tim Weisberg Under Cover
These are all well recorded with a fairly broad fq range all have great bass.
Go on and bite the bullet and get the Maggy's. If you try hard enough you can penetrate any speakers armor.