Test track
Posted by: S3 on 21 January 2017
Which track do you tend to play to friends to demonstrate what your system can do and using which source?
Here is a couple I use:
While McCallum's guitar betrays the jazz background, the electronics work like the sort of modernist architecture that grafts the new onto the old to create something modern but with links to the worthwhile qualities of the past. If the album were a city it would be Berlin—new and old co-existing to face the future rather than perpetual return to the battles of the past. ''All That Jazz.''Some music is at its best after dark; after all, night is the time for introspection, and this, guitarist Stuart McCallum’s second album for Naim Jazz, is a case in point: we’re truly talking about 3.00am levels of introspection. '' London Jazz.
Placement is perfect on this young audiophile classic as well as the near perfect natural recording of the voice, but the real test for audio equipment when listening to this recording is it's ability to separate the kick drum from the upright bass.
The two instruments are playing the same pattern. On less than optimum equipment it might be difficult to separate the two, but with good setup you clearly hear the upright at 10.00 and the kick dead center with a nice decay that one generally do not hear on commercial recordings.
There are lots of speakers and headphones with ''extended lows'' but low with definition is a whole different ballgame. ''Computer Audiophile''And man, are they ever sweet. I've seldom heard recordings that were so successful in both performance and sound aspects.Her style is bluesy and intimate with a sexy voice that's sweet as dark tupelo honey, and her interpretations are unerring. The musicians play to her and to each other, and the ensemble is so tight that the four musicians breathe and move as one.'' Sound Stage!''