Yeah I think that some people rely to much on specially designed tracks where as just listening to pieces of music that you know really well and know the fine details of can be just as good in many cases.
Of course some situations require full out frequency evaluation etc but for many cases if a track you know well sounds as good as it should and no details are missed then it's good enough!
Haven't you seen any earthquake movies. They can totally pinpoint a source and have their fancy computers do cool 3d renderings of the terrain with an impact animation on top. In the real world however, I think they at best can tell you from which direction it rumbles. But anyone with animals can do the same thing. If the animals suddenly run off, its in the opposite direction.
if you want a bass test: Skorge - Ridankulous
Trap is a one trick pony. The bass is almost without exception a kick from Roland's TR808 and TR909 drum machines, which have the meat of the sound at 200 and 100hz respectively. The lower end in trap comes from saturation ,overdrive and using tools such as BXBoom to add sub harmonics to the bass kick. The problem with this approach is that synthetically added subharmonics is no substitute for fullness at those same frequencies. bassboosting tools are not magical. Fullness meaning that the sounds down south of 100hz are samples of deep things or synths sounds designed to be at their fullest at those frequencies and layered like a cake to fill the lower part of the spectrum out as much as possible without muddying up the rest of the track.
Check out Fat Jon aka Maurice Galactica aka The Ample Soul Physician (lol, I know...) Hes an amazing hip-hop instrumental artist
Its not everyones cup of tea but there are sooo many layers to his beats you seriously need studio monitor headphones to truly appreciate his music.
His latest album Rapture Controlle: https://youtu.be/Xg3ZYm3mI70
Rage Against The Machine. That is it really just the entire album.
NEARLY a necro of this post, but I personally use:
Absolute top pick: Scorpions' "Deadly Sting Suite" from "A Moment of Glory" Although the whole album is great for it. Wish there were better recordings on YouTube because god damn that kick and bass are orgasmic together with the right setup. With the guitar wailing in it's just this perfect full frontal wall of noise that is just incredible when equalized and cranked up.
Pink Floyd's "Dogs Of War" from the live album "Delicate Sound of Thunder"
And finally, Yello's "Le Secret Farida" off the album "One Second"
It really depends on the sound signature of the pair of cans I'm dealing with.
For my HE-400's, since they're on the bass-heavy side, I tested them with a lot of doom metal.
With my HD-558's which focus more on the mids and treble, I did a lot more listening to math pop and albums with female vocalists.
For fidelity, I usually check out a lot of Daft Punk's discography, like Digital Love and Harder Faster Better Stronger from Discovery, the first few songs from Homework (+ Fresh), and Giorgio by Moroder and Touch and Get Lucky from Random Access Memories.
I'll listen to some random songs after that, like Idioteque by Radiohead, Slum Love by Kimbra, etc, depending on with what I think they'll sound good. For some variety I might check out I, Robot by Alan Parson's Project, and most anything by the likes of BADBADNOTGOOD, 65daysofstatic, The Cinematic Orchestra, World's End Girlfriend, and Gorillaz.
EDIT: And how could I forget - Pete Standing Alone and Roygbiv and Open the Light by Boards of Canada (or the entirety of Music has the Right to Children).
There will probs be hate for how mainstream my music taste is but that's how the cookie crumbles. Plus I would listen to these in no particular order - hence no numbers.
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I recently compiled by favourite tracks for testing headphones into a lossless playlist.
This Is a Test – Music for Appreciating and Evaluating Audio Equipment
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Aphex Twin - Ageispolis / Die Antwoord - Ugly Boy
Aphex Twin - Minipops 67 (Source Field Mix)
Eprom - Regis Chillbin
Eprom - Center Of The Sun
Sherwood & Pinch - Precinct of Sound
Dr. Toast - A Prehistory of Thermodynamics
Free The Robots - Jazzhole
Droon - Cripplefight
The Twin Peaks OST
I'm a basshead if you couldn't tell.
Lets bring this back as this thread is worth something.
Im more of a speaker guy. Cant stand headphones cooking my head but otherwise my go to song is Long After You're Gone by Chris Jones
My go to is Axis Disrupt - Harmonious Devourment. I can tell in the first 10 seconds whether or not I like how the headphones sound or if it needs to be adjusted. Helps maybe I know the band so I know how they want it to sound.
Listened to this track a few months back, great tune. Listened to a large amount of Tigran Hamasyan since then, quite a niche jazz group but I was performing a piece of theirs so I had to listen to a lot of their material, well worth a look.
For Bass I use Stacks by Flying Lotus
The rest i use different genres of music to test like say the Beach boys to Metallica to like Thundercat
I also use like a 20hz to 20,000hz thingy...