GM audio engineer lists Top 10 songs to test your car's stereo

[Aaron Smith]

Pretty weird/lame/pointless article if you ask me. The type of person who would seriously take this guy's word for it and arbitrarily use these songs to judge their stereo, also likely wouldn't have their own opinions or a good critical ear to begin with, so the whole exercise would be pointless anyway!

http://content.usatoday.com/communi...-to-test-any-car-sound-system/1?se=yahoorefer

 

[sprack]

That looks more like the playlist he cries him self home with. I hate sensitive engineers.

 

[xFkx]

Yeah, pretty retarded idea, but it's a playlist i'd pop into my car anyway. I like most of it.

 

[pipaguapique]

people who read this will probably download mp3 files from the internet of those songs and be like "what clarity???"

 

[TheWinterSnow]

people who read this will probably download mp3 files from the internet of those songs and be like "what clarity???"

haha probably. its sad that we live in a world where more songs on an mp3 player is more important than quality, yet vehicle and home theater makers are trying to brag about hi-fi stereos as a key source for sales. The quality of the sound system don't mean shit if your source is shit, and mp3s....SHIT!

 

[egan.]

To be fair, I'll be damned if I can hear the difference between 256 AAC and 16bit wav in my car with the engine on.

 

[TheWinterSnow]

To be fair, I'll be damned if I can hear the difference between 256 AAC and 16bit wav in my car with the engine on.

you must not be rocking out to some f00kin metal then. If I am listening to something that I like, I can't hear the pure of a 5.7 V8 driving down the freeway doing 70. Pretty loud and If I can't feel the thump of the kick and the high hats and guitars are all harsh and aliased...you can;t rock out to the music as loud!

/sarcasm

true story though

 

[GarethSE]

I would never test out any speaker system with any of that music.
My first choice would probably be like...
I dunno, whatever I'm really digging that week. Right now it would be Cephalic Carnage - Lucid Interval, Ulcerate - Everything is Fire and Cynic - Focus (original master bitches, fuck yo bonus tracks NIGGUH)
Any other week it could be some fuckin MILES DAVIS or some jewish music.
But seriously, fuck the black eyed peas. If you wanna test the accuracy and power of the low end you blast some fucking Sunn, not Black Eyed Peas. Or perhaps I'm just a deeply warped individual, who knows?

 

[Aaron Smith]

Agreed with Egan- in the car, mp3s aren't really a big deal to me, although those little radio wave-transmitting iPod ports sound really noticeably terrible in my experience, so if I were going to use an iPod in the car, it would have to be a digital or analog connection.

My favorite part of the article is the description for the Johnny Cash song: "Listen for the clarity in Johnny's distinctive voice, and his guitar to sound natural and free of any coloration." As if the average consumer (for whom this article was written) is going to be able to recognize whether or not the guitar sounds colored

 

[GarethSE]

Yeah, the difference between mp3 and lossless is in the subtleties, subtleties that get lost completely if there's much of a noise floor, which there most definitely is in a car.