10 very well recorded Songs to Test and Improve your HIFI system.

Demo well recorded songs to help improve and test your audiophile system. Including bass, vocals, high frequencies, Imaging, attack, decay, Dynamics.
Some description of what to look for in these songs

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My D11 Dac

[kungula]

Gabster, I really hope you will soon recommend new songs to us. Your recommendations in this video were just incredible !

[buddyjenkins]

List of Songs
10 Barley by Lizz Wright
9 The Day before you came by ABBA
8 Remember me by Bridges Elver
7 Closer by Ane Brun
6 Fever by Malia
5 Rendez-Vous A Paris by Jean Michael Jarre
4 Autumn Leaves by Eva Cassidy
3 Hush by The Marias
2 Crimson Tide by Hans Zimmer
1 Children Under the Sun by Samuel La Manna

[jeremiahglass]

The best part about these videos is- You typically get 10 really good songs (from the video itself), and 50+ more from the “Comments”…. Keep them coming!!

[mistermonsterr]

1. Arooj Aftab - Baghon Main
2. Bonobo - Emkay
3. Alt-J - Tesselate
4. Sons of Kemet - To Never Forget the Source
5. Melody Gardot - Preacherman
6. The Budos Band - Old Engine Oil
7. Anna von Hausswolff - How Many More of These
8. Yosi Horikawa - Bubbles
9. Ondara - Give Me a Moment
10. Johnny Greenwood - Future Markets

A few recent favs! Thanks for sharing, excited to dive in :)

[TheBarnCarsandBicycles]

This is an incredible list. Thanks for the new music and introduction to some amazing recordings.

[ranmacman]

My go-to songs for system evaluation:

Kevin Eubanks - The Heat of Heat
Kool & the Gang - Summer Madness
Jewel - Serve the Ego
Sarah McLachlan - Into the Fire
Shawn Colvin - Shotgun Down the Avalanche

[alanchamberlain]

Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "Lucky Man" was my go-to test song back in the '70s.

[PrashanthKonaje]

Thank you for this wonderful listing of HiFi Songs. First thing i did was to create a playlist on Spotify and then listen to your observations in the video and play the song. That let's me enjoy there song even better knowing what to expect, the intricacies of the music. This also helped me really appreciate the 5.1 set up that i have at home. Thank you so much. Looking for more recommendations. ❤

[byggmesternasker]

Great many great songs!
My go-to songs is:
1 Here’s to life - Antonsen big band.
2 One day you’ll dance for me New York City - Thomas Dybdal
3 Sol - Solar Fields
4 Return to the sauce - infected mushroom.

[dam]

I once played Pink Floyd’s “Time” on a pair of Klipschorns.

[allanmorris]

Sharing our favorite music is very much part of the audiophile journey rather than talking about equipment all the time!
Eva Cassidy sings a live version of “Over the Rainbow” on “Nightbird” that will give you goosebumps, a corny old song but you will never have heard it sung like this before…….

[David-ikwj]

cant wait to listen to these tracks. My dac is at the doctor right now. going thru serious audio system withdraw at the moment. lm listening to music from my TV.

[knockshinnoch]

Thanks for sharing this list of tracks. It's always refreshing to have "new" recordings by "new" artists recommended rather than the same old predictable dozen or so tracks most folks refer to to. I'll start researching these recommendations immediately!

[obyteworld]

The Crimson Tide soundtrack got me. I listened to it till the end of the track. Now I will have to rewatch the movie again after 28 years!

[pierremartin]

Fantastic, Autumn Leaves knocked me out.

[quant]

Please try these songs, all with impressive sound:
1. The Cousins - Twistin In
2. Rosemary Clooney, Perez Prado- Like a Woman
3. Dead Can Dance - Rakim
4. Bjork - HUman Behaviour
5. Muddy Waters - Country Boy
6. Connie Francis - Solamente Una Vez
7. Tom Jones - Live from Las Vegas

[russgladstone]

There’s only one track i use to demonstrate any decent audio system, it never fails to raise eyebrows, its a Grammy award winning song by the angel voiced ‘Lisa Fischer’ who sang backing for the late great ‘Luther Vandross’, and the track is called “How Can I Ease The Pain”…….. thank me later

[StephenBusch]

Thank you Gabby, diverse and beautiful artistic selection, I have compiled into a playlist for all to enjoy...called Jilted ..because iit is the name of a Christine and the Queens song that I was listening to ...please only click if you have listened to Gabby's complete overview of these 12 tracks 🙏💜🎶🙂❣️

[PrashanthKonaje]

Thank you for the wonderful song recommendations and expert insights. Your keen observations about nuisances of the songs really add to the joy of listening to these songs on my HiFi system and helps me appreciate the music and the technology that makes it happen. Keep them coming. God bless.

[DddNnn-ry]

I agree, the music from a great recorded song is...priceless..