“Top 10: Best Songs To TEST Your Car Audio System”

Top 10: Best Songs To TEST Your Car Audio System

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 12:19 PM PDT

Although I would like to claim I am an audiophile, my hearing isn't as good as it used to be.

Don't get me wrong, I know the difference between an BMW E46 330Ci's Harmon Kardon unit, which was an awful stereo, to an Porsche Panamera's Burmeister sound system -- the most amazing audio experience I have had in a vehicle.

Long story short, I have a few tracks that I always test sound systems with. But no one cares wants to know how 00R perceives sound, so let's look at someone's picks who is an expert.

General Motors's sound engineer, Matt Kirsch, spoke to USAToday about the tracks he uses to test car audio quality.

What do you use?

Here are Kirsch's top 10:

Norah Jones - "Don't Know Why"
Joan Baez - "Diamonds and Rust"
Alicia Keys - "No One"
The Eagles - "Hotel California"
The Black Eyed Peas - "Boom Boom Pow"
The Black Eyed Peas - "Rock That Body"
Imogen Heap - "Hide and Seek"
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu - "He Mele No Lilo"
Johnny Cash - "Bird On A Wire"
Radiohead - "Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box"

Test driving the sound system when you're car shopping can be as key to your long-term satisfaction as checking out the handling. So we thought you'd like to see this list of Top 10 songs for testing car audio quality from General Motors audio engineer Matt Kirsch, who led the sound work on the Chevrolet Cruze...

[Source: USAToday]

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