ok just did....Pioneer Passive Crossover Network read what this guy uses to test his speakers.ive read him make mention of alot of diffrent artists. toni braxton,sara k,diana krall.all those for thier vocals. just name a few. there are sooo many songs to list.it difficult to list them all
ok read on.........I used eight different albums and nine songs to fill in my opinion on these speakers: Lenny Kravitz, 5, "I Belong to You"; 10,000 Maniac's, In My Tribe, "Peace Train"; Ramsey Lewis, "People make the World Go'Round"; Jennifer Warnes, Famous Blue Raincoat, title track; Schubert, Symphony #9, "The Great"; Shoanna Z's album Racism Exposed, "NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, AKA Left Wing Trickery" and "Quotable Quotes"; Rage Against the Machines, "Know your Enemy"; and Metallica's, "Ride the Lighting." I started out with the 10,000 Maniac's "Peace Train." This track opens with a deep repeating 30Hz bass drum kick. While the SPR-176A's did not reproduce the fundamental note, you could hear a nicely defined mallet strike on the "skin" of the bass drum. The female lead vocal is round, smooth and enjoyable. The upper treble is smooth too, but lacks shimmer. Which is a theme that runs throughout all of the listening. The midbass toms and bongos have excellent detail and tightness. So I had to get to some male vocal to compare with. Listening to Lenny Kravitz, "I Belong to You," I find the male vocal has the slightest bit of sibilance (sibilance: spitty or over emphasized "s" sounds in words.) As is my practice to track down sibilance, I jump to get my Jennifer Warnes "Famous Blue Raincoat" (FBR) recording. "FBR" is a great recording with which to listen and test, because Ms. Warnes voice is completely exposed in this recording and she hangs on every "S" in each word. If you want to know whether a speaker has a bump in its response curve in the 4 or 5kHz range, this is the track that will show it because of the "S"'s. Jennifer Warnes is mic'd very closely and you can hear all kinds of little noises in her singing and breathing. quoted from car audio and electronics mag.he's testing some alpine seprates.
