can someone recommend a cd for testing my system ,cheers brian

 

Dave Mathews band - some devil.

however unless you know what to listen for its kinda useless. Use somethign you're familiar with and know how it should sound on a reference quality system.

 

sorry ,i should have been more specific ,im looking for a disc used to play left and right Chanel front and hope this explains what im after better . rear , hi and low tones ,etc .

 

well you're not going to get front and rear from a CD because its only 2 channel so the best you can do is use left and right. what do you plan on using this cd for?

 

Maybe he's looking for a Music DVD, the ones with concerts or custom sounds, I know the blueman group has a M-DVD, it sounds awesome, and it has support for up to 7.2 channels.

EDIT:

Sorry, it's called Audio DVD, and it seems like 5.1 support only, more than enough for your left, right, center, and rear channels:

http://www.blueman.com/media/dvds

 

Autosound 2000. This will give you left, right, center . i also believe that it will play single frequencies starting at 20 hz and going up to 20k hz. It will also do sweeps as well as a few very well recorded tracks for SQ. I am not sure if you will find it in a store, just search on google. If you have an RTA it works great for truly tuning your system as long as you have a good trunk mount eq, 15 or 30 band. good luck, hope this helps you out

 

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http://www.crutchfield.com/App...36150

I have Disc 1 and Disc 3. Just to clarify, they're still CDs, which only have left and right channel capabilities. However, they are mixed very well, and disc 3 is great for setting up a sound stage (it's mixed so that there are tracks that are left, right and a simulated center channel). It also has very good liner notes of what to listen for in each track.

Anyway, there's a very detailed review on Crutchfield of what each disc specializes in to help you figure out which disc(s) you should buy. Here's the link.

http://www.crutchfieldadvisor.....html

 

cheers folks

 

you can also make you own buy doing a google search for audio test tones