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If you want to see your Devialet try to take flight from the intense bass, try Bummed - Blake Skowron
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.
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
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
https://www.youtube.com/user/umduggu/videos

Many excellent testing tracks for bass here, the drivers vibrating like crazy...
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
I didn''t know that Yello is rock Big Grin
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