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Here's a screenshot of my headphone testing playlist. Songs I like, but also having either deep bass, bright highs, or both. Plus, they're songs I've listened to a million times, so I know how they're supposed to sound.
As for music I'd want to get first when starting over: Dark Side of the Moon.
If I got new speakers, better quality ones than the ones for my old RCA thing or the ones in my Bria radio CD player thing, or even my beats headphones, I'd have a hard time choosing an album. Would probably go with whatever I'm in love with at the moment. Currently that's a 3 way tie between R.E.M.'s Out of Time, Alice in Chains Jar of Flies, and New Radicals Maybe You've Been Brainwashed. Would struggle to lick between those 3.
As for individual songs, I got a couple I'm currently absolutely in love with that I'd love to play on very high quality speakers:
Deafening - The Nixon Rodeo ( emotionally hard rock, at least I think so )
OR
Someday We'll Know - New Radicals ( for some reason this just became my absolute favorite New Radicals song immediately after hearing it once on CD )
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
I have listened to this album more times than anything else I own. I'm on my third copy of it after wearing out the original pressing I have from the 90's and the repressing from 10 years ago. I know every sample, every soundscape, and it almost brings me to tears every time I drop the needle on it. So many memories of good times where this was the soundtrack. So many friends, now gone, walk next to me again when that album plays.
I miss you, Isaac.
... it's the money
for testing new speakers and adjusting the equalizer, Megadeth - Trust
drums in the beginning for the low frequencies, followed by some nice guitar work for balancing the high ones
Hey this just happened to me. I played Atlantic by Sleep Token to shop for then test speaker stuff
I was in theatre school for a while. We touched on everything related to a theatre production, including sound. Our tech would always test his setup with Paul Simon's Getting Ready For Christmas Day.
I've heard that song used to calibrate audio setups so often that it's become easy to identify any issues when I hear it.
New Speakers → I don't do anything different
New music library from scratch - if we talk local → I fall back to my Bandcamp, Soundcloud, YouTube Music, or radio
You must have a favoured song that is the first to come to your mind when you have a clean slate.
Not really.
Sometimes a song catches me and I listen to it on repeat. Other times an artist. Or genre.
There's no single fav.
Fever Days by Snowmine. It's what I did when I got my first good set of headphones, and it was pretty magical.
Even god has a hell
Max Cooper - Spike (The best benchmark I've ever heard)
If I want to impress people I play Mountains (Interstellar) by Hans Zimmer.
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
Or
The Black Keys - Brothers
Green Day - Jaded
Omg it has such a strong guitar background. A bit too strong, I felt.
Tally Hall - Hymn for a Scarecrow
Florence + the Machine - June
Just to open it gently
"Frank's Wild Years"
Big Tymers-Still Fly. It gets to a part where it goes “2 15’s didn’t see no wires, then I heard BOOM from the amplifier.” If the house/car doesn’t shake then it’s not enough bass.
