noob question but who cares. just got HU speakers and sub/amp installed and trying to think of some really kickass rock to download.

 

here's some good metal!
killswitch engage-bid farewell, as i lay dying-forsaken and once beloved-beside myself

 

Bullet for My Valentine - Waking the Demon (lows/mids/highs)
Deftones - Around the Fur (mids)
A Perfect Circle - Pet (for lows)
Alter Bridge - Metalingus (lows/mids)
Rage Against the Machine - Bulls on Parade (lows/mids)
Queens of the Stone Age - Mexicola (will test your lows...very, very well)
Probot - Red War (will test lows and bass reponse, lots of bass drumming)

 

STP Core has excellent balanced mixing as well as Alice in Chains Dirt. For something a little more bassy/punchy can't go wrong with moe. or a studio Phish album (Nectar is the only one I like). Ah yes I almost forgot... the newest Raconteurs is AMAZING!!! Called Consolers of the Lonely.

 

As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us

 

Something that will push your system? Merzbow. Loud, obnoxious and totally deranged.

 

Meshuggah-Bleed

 

damn all that hardcore guys came out. I was thinking something a little more mainstream. Rage and deftones are cool though

 

i guess any rap suggestions are welcome as well

 

^ +1 and and maybe have a little "Slayer","Hatebreed" and "Straping Young Lad" mixed in there for good measure.

 

lollipop by lil' wayne has some amazing amounts of bass

 

Are you talking highly compressed and over equalized loud music to test amplitude or high dynamic range natural sounding music for quality?

I make (part) of my living with my ears so I have to preserve what hearing the US Navy left me with so I limit the amplitude to levels that don't cause hearing damage - most of you hit that level and go way beyond.

For the later quality checks I recommend a good recording of either The Eagles Hotel California or Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here. Both have dynamics that are very challenging. I have some versions of "Hotel" where the accustic guitars are just unbelievably real though the right speakers. WYWH is a wonderful clean recording. The producers were very kind to the mix.

 

How bout Prodigy/breathe, Rammstein/feuer frei, or if you want some extreme noise, The Berzerker/corporal jigsore quandary, or any The Berzerker song for that matter.

 

Guns 'n' Roses - Use your Illusion I & II. = Estranged, November Rain, Don't Cry. All three of those have great range for you to hear in a good system

Janes Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual = Three Days.

Pearl Jam - Ten = Black

 

HEAVEN SHALL BURN! or In Flames or kill switch, or behemoth

 

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+Bless the Fall - His last walk [Has a decent amount of bass parts]
+Job for a Cowboy - Day in Black [Has a decent amount of bass parts]
+Job for a Cowboy - Entities [Has TONS of Double bass]
+Remembering Never - Closed Caskets
+Throwdown - Burn


Im more into Hardcore/Death metal so..
Im not sure what you like; but if your fine with just testing the system with the music; try bands such as Job for a Cowboy, As Blood Runs Black, WhiteChapel, From Autumn to Ashes, All Shall Perish, Through the Eyes of the Dead, Emmure, All That Remains


and for Rap...
+Lil Wayne - Imma Beast
+Lil Wyte - Oxy Cotton
+Lil Wyte - Doubt me Now
+Lil Wyte - Bay Area/ Blame it on the Bay [2 different songs]

Techno DOES have bass in song's too; and plenty of it.

just my 2cents

 

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I cant believe no one said Disturbed or GodSmack..

 

Killswitch Engage - My Curse

 

Some of the best rap songs are:
Three 6 Mafia-Late Night Tip
Young Jeezy-Hypnotize
Young Jeezy-White Girl