It is very hard to audition/test bass...it is so room dependent (as natural instruments with ultra LF have bass notes with long duration and therefore fully excite room modes)...is it a room mode or the speaker?
Good transients are probabaly the only thing you can use to test speaker bass response in an unfamiliar listening environment like a store demo. Something with your favorite kick drum (and make sure to avoid something that has been harmonically sweetened to give it punch like most rock music such as AC/DC Back in Black). For some uncompressed drums try the Naxos Hok-Man Yim Chinese Drums, Poems of Thunder. Alternatively Harvey Mason's drumming on George Benson's Weekend in L.A. "On Broadway" or Stuart Copeland on "Murder by Numbers", Police, Synchronicity. There are many others....good luck ;-)
Kick drum goes down to about 40 Hz but it is more of a 'feeling' of compression in the room than an audible sound (such short duration and so much transient attack).
Good transients are probabaly the only thing you can use to test speaker bass response in an unfamiliar listening environment like a store demo. Something with your favorite kick drum (and make sure to avoid something that has been harmonically sweetened to give it punch like most rock music such as AC/DC Back in Black). For some uncompressed drums try the Naxos Hok-Man Yim Chinese Drums, Poems of Thunder. Alternatively Harvey Mason's drumming on George Benson's Weekend in L.A. "On Broadway" or Stuart Copeland on "Murder by Numbers", Police, Synchronicity. There are many others....good luck ;-)
Kick drum goes down to about 40 Hz but it is more of a 'feeling' of compression in the room than an audible sound (such short duration and so much transient attack).