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#21
If you want to see your Devialet try to take flight from the intense bass, try Bummed - Blake Skowron
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#22
Try "Way Down Deep" by Jennifer Warnes off the album "The Hunter".
You will be surprised by the bass on the track. I managed to destroy a set of Quad ESL988 electrostats with that track.

Devialet 440PRO CI/ Mola Mola Tambaqui + Kalugas / Vivid Audio Giya G2
Cape Town, South Africa
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#23
The most dynamic thing I know is "In the Middle Somewhat Elevated", Thom Willems.
Bass - Cosmic Hippo, Bela Fleck

My test tracks got through a range of sounds - voices, clapping, brass, percussion, violin, piano, then acoustic jazz trio and multi-part vocals.
Rarely more than 30 seconds per track

Would include:
Ya Balad - Bachar Mar Kalife (Male vocal)
Winterreise - Mathais Groene (Male Vocal)
Tincian - 9Bach (Female vocal)
OK Chorale from Parallax - Phronesis (piano)
Bach partitas - Ibragimova (violin)
Xenakis - Kuniko (Percussion)
Clapping Hands - Reich LSO (clapping - this is a common speaker designer test)
Reich - Kuniko (Marimba)
Oud Duo - Marcel Khalife (Oud)

Lots of good jazz trios on ECM
Mozart Requiem - Harnoncourt
Nickel Creek - Nickel Creek
Massive Attack just to make sure
250 Pro CI; Innuos Zen Mk3; Claro dual turntable (Expert Stylus Denon + OL Aladdin Mk2); RCM Sensor2; Wilson Sabrina; OePhi speaker cables; Puritan PM156 conditioner and Ultimate cables.
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#24
Nils Lofgren - Keith don’t go
Eva Cassidy - songbird
Annie Lennox - Money can’t buy it. *Make sure you crank the volume
Queen - just about anything
Rebecca Newman - Canzonetta Sull’Aria (opera song from Shawshank Redemption)
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Midnight in Harlem
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#25
https://www.youtube.com/user/umduggu/videos

Many excellent testing tracks for bass here, the drivers vibrating like crazy...
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#26
Our audio club have been critisised for "music over 20 years old" and "too much classical music"
Since I like classical music, I ignored that but have updated the April 2022 list as follows:

C Air for the G-String – The Bach Variations (4:38)
C Pieces de Clavecin – La Popliniere (Rameau) (4:34)
C Concertina in D (Albrechtsberger) (2:03)
C Bach Cello Suite no 5  (5:55)
C Handel – Harp Concerto (5:41)
C Mozart – Symphony no 40 (7:07)
Dm Motodrum Crash Cabriolet – Charli Antolini (16.16)
Ch Eternal Father – Strong to Save – Hans Zimmer (3:54)
Mov Ennio Morricone – Guarani (3:56)
J Blue Bossa – Brian Bromberg (2:26)
J Bozzio Levin Strauss – Duende (7:27)
J Byzantium Underground – Jesse Cook (4:00)
J Flight of the Cosmic Hippo - Bela Fleck & The Flecktones (4:27)
J Let ‘em in – Brian Bromberg (3:29)
J Take Five – The Dave Brubeck Quartet (5:26)
J Suite from the Milagro Beanfield War, Fiesta - Dave Grusin (2:26)
J Walking on the Moon – Yuri Honing Trio (5:29)
FV Birds – Dominique Fila-Amié (3:40)
FV Both sides now – Cæcille Norby (7:05)
FV December nights – Rebekka Bakken (2:36)
FV Don’t know why – Norah Jones (3:06)
FV I see fire – Jasmine Thompson (3:32)
FV Nicholas Drake  - Judith Owen (2:36)
MV Christian McBride – Night Train (3:38)
MV Colour to The Moon - Allan Taylor (4:28)
MV Lady in Red – Chris de Burgh (DSD) (4:17)
MV Leonard Cohen – Banjo (3:22)
MV Louisiana 1927 – Aaron Neville (3:05)
MV Love me Tender – Elvis Presley (2:44)
MV Nobody - Ry Cooder (5:12)
MV Steve Strauss – Youngstown (5:04)
MV Stolen Car – Sting (DSD) (3:58)
MV Walk on the Wild Side – Lou Reed (4:13)
Pian Les Sauvages – Rameau, with Vikingur Ólaffson (1:23)
R Fat Cry – Yello (4:14)

Ch = Choral  Mov = film  Pian= piano  R = rock  J = Jazz FV = female vocal  MV = male vocal C = classical
                                                           Cape Town - South Africa, the home of good wine
Listening stuff:  Mercury Pi2 / Gentooplayer,  Expert 440PRO CI.  4Tb SSD.  Mogami speaker cable to ET LF8bs, B&W DB1 sub, Power from 7.5kW inverter.  2 x Dachshunds
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#27
I didn''t know that Yello is rock Big Grin
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