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General Category => Music => Topic started by: rsmiii on June 29, 2025, 09:34:53 AM

Title: Classical Music Recommendation, Testing for Lower Bass?
Post by: rsmiii on June 29, 2025, 09:34:53 AM

What "classical" music do you recommend, if you want to test speakers for lower bass performance?

Right now I look to Sergei Rachmaninoff, All-Night Vigil (1915) [aka Vespers], particularly movement 5, "Now Lettest Thou."
The final measures has the lower bass vocalists descending to a low B-Flat.
It's fun to imagine where your ears start to lose it and your imagination substitutes in.

But other choices, if you want to show off your speakers and subwoofers?
All suggestions appreciated.

Title: Re: Classical Music Recommendation, Testing for Lower Bass?
Post by: Paul Joppa on June 29, 2025, 10:27:00 AM

The Camille Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony (#3) comes to mind - or Richard Strauss's tone poem "Also Sprach Zarathustra."

Title: Re: Classical Music Recommendation, Testing for Lower Bass?
Post by: 2Bornot2B on June 30, 2025, 03:16:37 AM

While it is not “classical” the soundtrack to “Encounters of the Third Kind” should provide a workout for your system.

Title: Re: Classical Music Recommendation, Testing for Lower Bass?
Post by: Paul Birkeland on June 30, 2025, 05:51:08 AM

You could try Switched-on Bach.

Title: Re: Classical Music Recommendation, Testing for Lower Bass?
Post by: Thermioniclife on June 30, 2025, 10:04:01 AM

Toccata and Fugue in D minor by Bach.