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Top of the Charts: The Songs the Sound Engineers Use to Tune Your Stereo
Car and Driver ^ | Published: Oct 23, 2021 | By Benjamin Hunting

Posted on 04/06/2024 7:24:27 PM PDT by thecodont

From the November 2021 issue of Car and Driver.

What's blasting from your car speakers, and more important, how does it sound? For sound-system engineers at the audio-equipment manufacturer Bose, a playlist is more than tracks that slap. To test stereos, they need songs representing a variety of sounds and recording techniques to make sure new systems can re-create a song with the depth of the original recording.

To have a common reference point, Bose engineers all over the globe share a master playlist. "Every system engineer knows these tracks inside and out," says Mark Armitage, head of the acoustical-engineering team at the company's Michigan field office. "It makes for a universal language we can use when testing and tuning."

Armitage says the 54-track Bose playlist is updated periodically, and engineers can use it alongside a smattering of their personal favorites or recent Grammy winners. He walked us through a few selections from his test list.

(Excerpt) Read more at caranddriver.com ...


TOPICS: Hobbies; Music/Entertainment; Science
KEYWORDS: bose; cars; stereo
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To: thecodont
I was doing some bench work on vintage stereos while laid off back in the 90’s. I used the beginning of “Round About” I recorded and repeated on a cassette tape to tune the Finals in. Worked great and cheaper than a signal generator LOL.
41 posted on 04/07/2024 6:56:59 AM PDT by Wilum (Never loaded a nuke I didn't like)
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To: thecodont
Your ears and Aram Khatchaturian: "Sabre Dance" from "Gayane“ will tell you all you need to know about the performance of your ears and sound-reproducing hardware.
42 posted on 04/07/2024 7:44:13 AM PDT by MosesKnows
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To: thecodont

As usual for people on FR, I won’t actually read the article, but if it doesn’t mention anything (literally any song) off Boston’s first album, it’s just wrong.

That album was an audio masterpiece.


43 posted on 04/07/2024 7:48:23 AM PDT by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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To: thecodont

Dire Straits Money for Nothing is absolutely the best. It takes great fidelity to reproduce a sawtooth wave and keep it sounding so raspy.


44 posted on 04/07/2024 8:18:07 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

Money For Nuthin is one of my Go-To’s for mix and/or master reference. No matter how loud you crank it, it always, just sounds amazing. A Masterpiece for sure!


45 posted on 04/07/2024 9:07:15 AM PDT by backspace (Please don't laugh at my tagline)
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To: FamiliarFace
Tom Petty, “Learning to Fly (Live)”

Yes! I just did this and you can almost see how big the stadium was. Very cool effect
46 posted on 04/07/2024 9:12:48 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: BradyLS

The quiet parts of the music are just as important as the noise.


47 posted on 04/07/2024 9:13:51 AM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: BradyLS

sigh. BOSE?
Buy
Other
Soumd
Equipment

Amar Bose genius was to understand 40 something men, who have money, have hearing loss in specific frequencies. If you use an equalizer to boost those frequencies, old men with money think they sound great. Bose 901’s and all the subsequent bose trash are sonic abonimations.

Buy,Other,Sound,Equipment


48 posted on 04/07/2024 9:15:32 AM PDT by cyberstoic
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To: dfwgator
"Eve" from 1979 is my favorite APP album.

Women mystified and confounded me just as much then as they do today.

49 posted on 04/07/2024 9:19:17 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (6,575,474 Truth | 87,429,044 Twitter)
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To: AAABEST
“ Boston’s first album,”

masterpiece is a bit strong but I’ll agree with 8 hits, no misses. Soundtrack for my younger days. 💯
50 posted on 04/07/2024 9:24:22 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: usconservative

That cannot be possible. Aren’t FReepers among the more intelligent human beans?


51 posted on 04/07/2024 9:56:39 AM PDT by CaptainPhilFan ( Bring back insane asylums)
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To: thecodont

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4226418/replies?c=328 I’ve got a photo of it.


52 posted on 04/07/2024 10:10:00 AM PDT by joesbucks (For 2,000 years Christians have been warning of the Anti-Christ. Now they buy Bibles from him. )
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To: backspace

MFN cost me a fortune. Showed up the clear difference between a set of standard speakers and electrostatic speakers. Dire Straits owes me a bombshell for that.


53 posted on 04/07/2024 10:10:36 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: The Louiswu

My niece was at that show.

I’ve always thought that having the audience sing your song to you is probably one of the highest compliments a band could have.

If you like Petty and the audience effect, you should listen to Breakdown, when they played live at the Wiltern in 1985. It’s my favorite live version of that song.

https://open.spotify.com/track/4MlFMLlxLgUmGHu9VAdXLz?si=qzc9bJPjRsexs4490cXKAw


54 posted on 04/07/2024 10:24:29 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: thecodont

Sorry. I posted something belonged to another thread.


55 posted on 04/07/2024 10:33:22 AM PDT by joesbucks (For 2,000 years Christians have been warning of the Anti-Christ. Now they buy Bibles from him. )
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To: SamAdams76

I think I lost my hearing from blasting “Lucifer” on my headphones.


56 posted on 04/07/2024 11:12:43 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: FoxInSocks

Any/every cut from that production masterpiece is good for EQ’g sound.


57 posted on 04/07/2024 11:33:06 AM PDT by Ignatz (The bees don't bother to tell the flies that honey tastes better than dung.)
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To: cyberstoic

Amar Bose may be a genius but none of the rest describes me.


58 posted on 04/07/2024 1:39:48 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: usconservative

No every listener who agrees calls in... ;-)


59 posted on 04/07/2024 1:42:17 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: usconservative
I’m thinking we’re their only fans on here ...

count me in...

60 posted on 04/07/2024 3:51:22 PM PDT by goo goo g'joob (When honest people say what's true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful)
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