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[supervij]

Music:
Blue Man Group -- The Complex on DVD-A
Peter Gabriel -- Up on SACD
Pink Floyd -- Dark Side of the Moon on SACD
A3 -- La Peste on CD
TV on the Radio -- Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes on CD

Movies:
Toy Story I and II
Monsters Inc.
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
The Matrix
The Fifth Element (Ultimate/Superbit)

 

[kia303]

Music-Metallica Black Album DVD-A
Fleetwood Mac Rumors
Train Live at Last

Movies-LOTR
Fifth Element
DD/DTS Sampler discs

 

[da5176]

contest entry

I use Terminator 3 because I'm very familiar with it to test surround sound and base parts.

 

[leetamm]

Mark Knopfler - Ragpicker's Dream = Impeccable recording top to bottom
King's X - Please Come Home Mr. Bulbous = Bass response & guitar tone

 

[HiRez1394]

CDs/DVDs Tests

What CDs/DVDs do you use to test out a system? Please list what each of your preferred discs is good at testing.

CD: Any CD by Josh Groban to test for vocals and instrumentation.

DVD: Star Wars III for a Dolby Digital demo and either Spiderman I or II (Superbit) for DTS demos. These DVDs can test either frequency dynamics, bass response, and/or surround sound immersion.

 

[leaguer1leafs]

CD/DVD Tester

Music:
This is an easy one: Metallica "Black" Album DVD-A

Movie: Gladiator or Chronicles of Riddick

 

[royal crown]

Music: Anything on my iPod, but something with good acoustical properties, something a little bass heavy (Disturbed-esque), or sometimes classical (Bach, Beethoven, 4 seasons Winter)
DVD: Kill Bill Vol. 1 for the scene with the mosquito when the Bride's in a coma.
Also Finding Nemo, just for the lush music in there

 

[MrMezz]

CDs
Eric Clapton - Unplugged
The Police - Syncronicity
U2 - Rattle and Hum
Diana Krall - anything by Diana

DVDs
Lord of the Rings
Gladiator
Beauty and the Beast

 

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movie:
for home theater 5.1 / sub test
finding nemo chapter 25 darla glass tapping
toy story 2 intro scene, street crossing scene
star wars I: pod racing
war of the worlds: basement scene: for treble clarity: water drops. rest of movie has good subwoofer tests as well.

music:
blueman complex dts 5.1 audio
lara / reyes guitar for 2 channel
warren bernhardt jazz piano acoustic midrange accuracy.
wynton marsalis joe cool. acoustic
janos starker: bach cello suites

i use the stringed music / acoustical ensembles to test the overall presentation. i think the acoustic music is much more difficult to reproduce accurately than electronic music.

thx

 

[FLMike]

What I Use

CD's: Alice in Chains "jar of flies"
Bobby Rush "live at Ground Zero" (Blues/Funk
Bach Partita and Fugues Partita #6

Movies: LOTR Trilogy

 

[Buckle-meister]

I also have a burned CD-R containing stuff used at car SPL events. That disc usually bottoms out every sub I test.

I'm never letting you near my sub.

 

[sbader2]

CDs
Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
Led Zeppelin I
Allman Brothers - Live at the Fillmore East

DVDs
Lord of the Rings III - Return of the King
Saving Private Ryan
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

 

[kearaboss]

i dont really have anything specific to test things out. havent made enough big purchases to worry about it.

 

[MUDSHARK]

Music

genesis: yellow Album
Chicago Five

These two test rolled off highs and clean bass extention. If Chicago V sounds great so will almost every other cd that I own.

 

[varkeast]

Contest Question: What CDs/DVDs do you use to test out a system? Please list what each of your preferred discs is good at testing.

Cd: Metallica Black Album - the way lars bangs the cymbals so hard it almost always sounds harsh

DVDs: u571 - good bass
vanilla sky - just love the sound track

 

[Tar Heel]

DVD:
Master and Commander - Opening battle sequence
Apocalypse Now
Blade II
Gladiator

CD:
Miles Davis - Blue Miles
Dixie Chicks - Landslide

 

[jsamms]

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Fifth Element
Gladiator
The Haunting
War of the Worlds

 

[auge.dog]

CDs - Slipknot - to see if they can handle loud and hard; a burned Jazz CD to see if I can hear the distinct instrumentals being played

DVDs - Finding NEMO - sound; Gladiator - Visual

 

[BMXTRIX]

Typically not much for CDs - but for DVD the Incredibles is usually the first disc out. Now I add Star Wars III, Hitchhikers Guide, and sometimes a little Apollo 13.

The Incredibles really works it though - and has the video to back it up.

 

[Crackerballer]

CD's= Ludacris- Red Light District (TONS of bass, as well as great mids and a steady mix of musical instruments)
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter I and Tha Carter II ( Bass again, variety of sounds and can see how quickly your sub can recover in between hits)
Stevie Ray Vaughn - ANY Guitar, enough said, the tell all tale of what a system can hit and where its high points and low points are

DVD's=
Fast and the Furious= Both for the car sounds, guns shots, as well as good music in it
War of the Worlds - Everything, guns, robots, explosions, perfect for Bass heads
Master and Commander- Cannons, the sound of the sea, bells,
Hero- Sword fighting, slicing of the wind noises, etc
Days of Thunder - Race track sounds great
All the New Star wars (and the remasterd ones)