# The HEADPHONE Show's Audiophile Test Tracks - Ongoing **URL:** \ **Category:** The HEADPHONE Community\ **Created:** [February 10, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/the-headphone-shows-audiophile-test-tracks-ongoing/25109 "2025-02-10T16:17:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![taronlissimore](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/taronlissimore/32/59_2.png) [@taronlissimore](https://forum.headphones.com/u/taronlissimore)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/the-headphone-shows-audiophile-test-tracks-ongoing/25109/1 "2025-02-10T16:17:00Z")
The Headphone Show’s Audiophile Test Tracks We’ve each created headphone and audio evaluation tracks, and compiled music we might like or just think sounds cool on headphones. We will be adding more tracks and playlists in the future, but for now here are the ones we have. **Resolve** Tidal > **[Resolve's test tracks](https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/67f30b65-c77a-4787-a0d1-8fc9eebd7b9d)** > > Listen to Resolve's test tracks on TIDAL > **[Resolve's tracks for FUN](https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/a486a5d3-49a1-4940-9ea3-06f8e911f3a6)** > > Listen to Resolve's tracks for FUN on TIDAL Spotify https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/6X42qjVwSKYql1eb5V1D77?si=3bI93CXkR5mzmJnb4NiouQ&utm_source=oembed **DMS** Tidal > **[From DMS iPod](https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/f0661f20-c0db-4622-920e-4c73e9a86838)** > > Listen to From DMS iPod on TIDAL **GoldenSound** Tidal > **[Golden's Demo Tracks](https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/54edf4c1-cae0-4954-bb31-181624d10177)** > > Listen to Golden's Demo Tracks on TIDAL Spotify https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/4L2Ral0xS1FN0W3gvGUu4T?si=5ywv4-3OSOCGjX6scQcMVw&utm_source=oembed **Listener** Apple > **[Reference by Griffin Silver on Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/reference/pl.u-MDAWeRWC2rdxWY)** > > Playlist · 27 Songs Tidal > **[Listener's Reference Tracks](https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/e26ea3ae-4ab7-4578-bc42-7a5ad16aacc4)** > > Listen to Listener's Reference Tracks on TIDAL Spotify https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/5izJt879GPwMCrbkM6HR4W?si=Ypb6dxRPR-GwGvX-70R0hQ&utm_source=oembed ---
**Author:** ![ADU](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/adu/32/57501_2.png) [@ADU](https://forum.headphones.com/u/ADU)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/the-headphone-shows-audiophile-test-tracks-ongoing/25109/2 "2025-02-11T00:02:40Z")
Nice listening on all the above lists. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![AJCxZ0](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/ajcxz0/32/20391_2.png) [@AJCxZ0](https://forum.headphones.com/u/AJCxZ0)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/the-headphone-shows-audiophile-test-tracks-ongoing/25109/3 "2025-02-11T23:49:47Z")
“[Happy Returns](https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107859502124/) / Ascendant Here on…” from _[Hand. Cannot. Erase (Deluxe Edition)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLsgd4L-nAM)_ by Steven Wilson, released 27th February 2015. #FUN ---
**Author:** ![Resolve](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/resolve/32/51647_2.png) [@Resolve](https://forum.headphones.com/u/Resolve)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/the-headphone-shows-audiophile-test-tracks-ongoing/25109/4 "2025-02-12T00:54:15Z")
Yeah, love this stuff. It’s well done. ---
**Author:** ![ADU](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/adu/32/57501_2.png) [@ADU](https://forum.headphones.com/u/ADU)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/the-headphone-shows-audiophile-test-tracks-ongoing/25109/5 "2025-02-12T01:30:16Z")
Baldych tracks were also good. I’d like to hear lists by the other [Headphones.com](http://Headphones.com) staff as well, if they haven’t already been posted elsewehere. (Even a few sea shanties, if that’s yer bent. ⛵ ) ---
**Author:** ![taronlissimore](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/taronlissimore/32/59_2.png) [@taronlissimore](https://forum.headphones.com/u/taronlissimore)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 2:49am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/the-headphone-shows-audiophile-test-tracks-ongoing/25109/6 "2025-02-12T02:49:27Z")
> [@ADU](#): > > Even a few sea shanties, if that’s yer bent. ⛵ Bah gawd that’s @Mad_Economist ‘s music ---
**Author:** ![Mad\_Economist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/mad_economist/32/44056_2.png) [@Mad\_Economist](https://forum.headphones.com/u/Mad_Economist)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/the-headphone-shows-audiophile-test-tracks-ongoing/25109/7 "2025-02-13T19:46:32Z")
The title including the words “audiophile test tracks” excludes the commanding majority of the music I listen to, which is typically weirdly produced and recorded at best. ---
**Author:** ![Luke](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/luke/32/59913_2.png) [@Luke](https://forum.headphones.com/u/Luke)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 4:58am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/the-headphone-shows-audiophile-test-tracks-ongoing/25109/8 "2025-02-14T04:58:31Z")
> [@Mad\_Economist](#): > > typically weirdly produced and recorded at best Sine waves? Wait, that’s probably too mainstream for you. Square waves? ---
**Author:** ![Argha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/argha/32/62283_2.png) [@Argha](https://forum.headphones.com/u/Argha)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 8:15am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/the-headphone-shows-audiophile-test-tracks-ongoing/25109/9 "2025-02-14T08:15:53Z")
Damm it Qobuz ![Screenshot 2025-02-14 134312](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/3/e/3e16e5602945c70fb40624551105afcbdba17581.png) ---
**Author:** ![ADU](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/adu/32/57501_2.png) [@ADU](https://forum.headphones.com/u/ADU)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 4:57am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/the-headphone-shows-audiophile-test-tracks-ongoing/25109/10 "2025-02-16T04:57:59Z")
> [@Mad\_Economist](#): > > The title including the words “audiophile test tracks” excludes the commanding majority of the music I listen to, which is typically weirdly produced and recorded at best. ☹ Ok, what about @Chrono, @Precogvision and some other folks then? ---
**Author:** ![Precogvision](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/precogvision/32/15449_2.png) [@Precogvision](https://forum.headphones.com/u/Precogvision)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 6:10am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/the-headphone-shows-audiophile-test-tracks-ongoing/25109/11 "2025-02-16T06:10:50Z")
Hey! I had a write up a few years ago about mine, and they haven’t really changed much since then. It’s just buried pretty deep in my reviewer profile on the site: > **[Theo Lee](https://headphones.com/blogs/authors/theo-lee)** > >   Theo, who reviews under the handle Precogvision, entered the world of audio as a freshman in college. An innocuous, window-shopping session online piqued his interest in a pair of IEMs (in-ear-monitors). At the time, he knew these as little... https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/7hoyTD5EqFl3uqNhWUDHxS?utm_source=oembed Mine aren’t really conventional ‘audiophile’ songs or particularly well-mastered. They’re mostly just songs I’ve listened to hundreds of times, that I enjoy, and that I’ve learned how to correspond with frequency response. So I use them at shows to quickly ascertain what I’m hearing and to build my impressions. Most of what I’m listening for is also very early on in the song because audible memory is pretty fallible and I don’t want to be sifting the slider during A/B comparisons. ---
**Author:** ![ADU](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/adu/32/57501_2.png) [@ADU](https://forum.headphones.com/u/ADU)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 6:24am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/the-headphone-shows-audiophile-test-tracks-ongoing/25109/12 "2025-02-16T06:24:53Z")
> [@Precogvision](#): > > Hey! I had a write up a few years ago about mine, and they haven’t really changed much since then. It’s just buried pretty deep in my reviewer profile on the site: Right on! Thanks for the link to your list! ---
**Author:** ![audiojerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@audiojerry](https://forum.headphones.com/u/audiojerry)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/the-headphone-shows-audiophile-test-tracks-ongoing/25109/13 "2025-02-17T17:50:31Z")
So glad to have found this topic! Thank you taronlissimore for posting it. It has really been valuable to me for expanding my playlist library. I use it Audirvana Studio to strean Qobuz. I have a few tracks that I didn’t see here, but I have found to be really well engineered with excellent sonics: _ **“Keep the Wolves Away” by Uncle Lucius:** _ Great music with extreme deep bass that you can feel if your phones can reproduce it. _ **“Vogue” by Madonna.** _ Don’t laugh - the engineering is outstanding and the surround sound is fantastic. _ **“Up Close”** _ by Ottmar Leibert is a binaural acoustical instrumental flamenco recording. It is so impressive for the music and not gimmicy like most binaural recordings. The binaural effect serves to highlight the skill and artistry of the musicians. The recording is described as “_a dummy head recording, sometimes also called holophonics. The listener has to use headphones to experience the 3D surround-sound quality of the music since the recording uses the head-related transfer function. Recorded live-to-stereo in August of 2007. No edits were made and the volume was not compressed._” It’s available at Bandcamp in 24/96 high rez. ---
**Author:** ![ADU](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/adu/32/57501_2.png) [@ADU](https://forum.headphones.com/u/ADU)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 2:56am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/the-headphone-shows-audiophile-test-tracks-ongoing/25109/14 "2025-02-18T02:56:51Z")
Nice to meet another Taeyeon, LOONA, country music appreciator here. I generally only listen on YouTube btw. So don’t really have a singular list of test tracks either. When I run across somethin interesting, unusual, or just good (imho) though, I’ll try to post it in the [music forum](https://forum.headphones.com/c/all-things-music/42). Anyone else on the [Headphones.com](http://Headphones.com) staff would also be appreciated. Let’s hear your takes! ---
**Author:** ![ADU](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/adu/32/57501_2.png) [@ADU](https://forum.headphones.com/u/ADU)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 2:59am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/the-headphone-shows-audiophile-test-tracks-ongoing/25109/15 "2025-02-18T02:59:22Z")
I enjoy a little Madonna as well now and then, audiojerry. The Ottmar Leibert was also nice. You might want to check out some of the tracks here as well… > [@Headphone Evaluation: Test Tracks](https://forum.headphones.com/t/headphone-evaluation-test-tracks/348): > > I know @Jaethan and @ChaseReeves were talking about this. What are your favorite songs for testing a pair of headphones? [Resolve’s Test Tracks](https://forum.headphones.com/t/headphone-evaluation-test-tracks/348/174) ---
**Author:** ![MrSehrKalt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/mrsehrkalt/32/55877_2.png) [@MrSehrKalt](https://forum.headphones.com/u/MrSehrKalt)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/the-headphone-shows-audiophile-test-tracks-ongoing/25109/16 "2025-03-01T21:20:44Z")
Since nobody asked, here they are on: ## Qobuz ### Resolve #### Resolve’s test tracks > **[Open Qobuz](https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/29675487)** #### Resolve’s tracks for FUN > **[Open Qobuz](https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/28924541)** ### DMS > **[Open Qobuz](https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/29324714)** ### GoldenSound > **[Open Qobuz](https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/29804949)** ### Listener > **[Open Qobuz](https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/29810828)** ### Precogvision > **[Open Qobuz](https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/29813424)** ---
**Author:** ![HobbyTalk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/hobbytalk/32/60608_2.png) [@HobbyTalk](https://forum.headphones.com/u/HobbyTalk)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/the-headphone-shows-audiophile-test-tracks-ongoing/25109/17 "2025-03-10T16:16:07Z")
Resolves fun playlist has become my dinner playlist haha my wife and I like it a lot. ---
**Author:** ![jzh10](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/jzh10/32/60872_2.png) [@jzh10](https://forum.headphones.com/u/jzh10)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 3:51am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/the-headphone-shows-audiophile-test-tracks-ongoing/25109/18 "2025-03-27T03:51:14Z")
Looking forward to listening to some new music, thank you! How about taking a few of your tracks and pointing out why you choose them for testing - what do they do well to demo a system? Thank you.