Use this song if you are doing an A/B with Preamps


Sixty Years On by Elton John.
A Demanding song with Orchestra, and a Lot of Head Room.
Played loud, it reveals Intense Strings and Swells
Whichever Preamp does That best, Wins !
The other one goes up for sale, period.

Cheers all !

fact33

Showing 1 response by papafrgog

I agree w the concept of evaluating a piece of gear with music you’re intimately familiar with. Listen for the transients and background artifacts and with piano, the decay of the keystrokes. But as others point out, it’s so hard to isolate sonic differences to 1 piece of equipment unless it’s on loan to you and swapped out with Everything else kept the same. Personally
I d never base an equipment decision on the replay of 1 song. 5 of different genre, well maybe, all other things being perfectly equal