• Three tracks? I’m looking for certain attributes:

    Impact / attack: Lust for life - Iggy Pop… if the first 20 seconds don’t have you dancing & grinning, and slightly scared, the system lacks Impact

    https://youtu.be/HuBU3pzy7is

    Vocal purity… And ‘weight’ of piano

    https://youtu.be/LLn3FT9BsRs

    Scale! Procession of the Sardar

    https://youtu.be/MueWVRMFodk

    Timing : for a bonus, to check the ‘timing’ of a system (or a room) … at about 2 minutes in - the music in this track starts and stops rapidly.. which sounds breathtaking on a system that can pull it off… leaving what feels like a vacuum hanging in the air for a moment. Lightweight cones and single driver speakers rule here

    https://youtu.be/cmpqYUaDT0c

    Have fun

    P.s. I’m using a pair of genelec monitors at the moment, and while nice, they basically fail at all of the above

  • I get what you say about the vacuum between sound, I’ve heard it once at club volume on a very well set up funktion 1 system in a half full venue - the silence between notes was so crisp it felt loud.

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