Benchmark Reference Music & Gear, Does It Really Matter? - Honest Audiophile Opinion
Should everyone have benchmark reference music and gear? Does it really matter? A question I'm often asked, what music and gear do you use? Does music preference impact gear impressions?
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:45 Music & Gear options are endless
01:45 Music Preferences Impact Gear Impressions
03:33 What's My Reference Music?
03:50 Tingvall Trio “Beat”
04:33 Sinne Eeg “We’ve Just Begun”
05:10 Molly Johnson “What a Little Moonlight Can Do”
05:50 Leslie Odom Jr. “Under Pressure”
06:30 Eric Clapton “Change the World”
07:17 Yo Yo Ma “Ecstasy of Gold”
07:47 Adam Baldych “Spem in Alium”
08:20 Pain of Salvation “Stress”
09:07 Michael Buble “When I Fall in Love”
09:44 Patricia Barber “Code Cool”
10:35 Christian Scott “New New Orleans”
11:26 Tool “Chocolate Chip Trip”
12:09 Hans Zimmer “Why So Serious”
12:48 Marcus Miller “No Limit”
13:18 Dave Holland Quartet “Conference Of The Birds”
14:07 Ilhan Eshkeri “47 Ronin”
15:10 Hans Zimmer “2049”
15:54 Cher “Believe”
16:38 Stanley Clarke “Passenger 57 main title”
17:16 Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra “The Pine of the Appian Way” (Respighi - Pines of Rome)
18:39 Houston Person “You are my Sunshine”
19:17 Diana Krall - "Singing in the Rain"
19:28 40 Fingers - "Last of the Mohicans"
19:37 David Phelps - "America the Beautiful/God Bless America Medley"
19:49 What's My Reference Gear?
21:30 How Did I Choose?
22:15 Why Everyone Should Have Benchmark Reference Music & Gear
24:39 Concluding Thoughts
25:45 Outro
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Test Tracks: https://www.thehonestaudiophile.com/post/does-your-music-preference-impact-your-sound-impressions
Amazon playlist: https://music.amazon.com/user-playlists/afb5506483ba4ae3be17c2184797ebb6sune?ref=dm_sh_ycUHvBw1lOkeqCrwPFcc45NAl
Recommended Gear:
Audeze LCD-5: https://www.audeze.com/products/lcd-5
Rosson Audio Design RAD-0: http://www.rossonaudiodesign.com/
Austrian Audio Hi-X60: https://austrian.audio/headphones/hi-x60/
Audeze LCD 2 Closed: LCD-2 Closed Back (audeze.com)
ADV. M5-12D: https://www.adv-sound.com/collections/pro-audio/products/m5-12d-universal
CTM Da Vinci X: https://cleartunemonitors.com/products/da-vinci-x-universal
Mytek Liberty DAC ii: https://mytek.audio/shop/lbrt-dac-ii-287#attr=
HeadAmp GSX-Mini: https://www.headamp.com/products/gs-x-mini
Massdrop THX AAA One Linear: https://drop.com/buy/drop-thx-aaa-one-linear-amplifier?utm_source=linkshare&referer=FTSS2S
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