REVIEW DISCLAIMER​

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This is my ever growing playlist for testing gear. It has been meticulously and very carefully curated over years. I add to it when I find something that inspires me, moves me, makes my gear shine or groan. Being blown away by gear is one thing, seeing where it can be improved is equally important. Please enjoy the collection, keep checking back for new stuff, and try it with your stuff too!

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- I start out with this extremely varied playlist of testing tracks to form my initial thoughts, then spend several weeks/months with the review sample listening to whatever inspires me. I then come back to the testing tracks to solidify my impressions before sitting down to write the review. I listen to the gear while I write, one of my favorite parts.

 

- I love all kinds of music, and to form an honest opinion for any piece of gear I think it absolutely necessary to test with lots of different kinds of music. If you’re taking a reviewer’s word about a piece of gear you want to spend your hard earned cash on, in my opinion, you absolutely should take into consideration how their musical tastes match or differ from your own.

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TESTING PLAYLIST 

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Agnes Obel - Dorian

Allison Krauss - Let Me Touch You For Awhile

Animals As Leaders - Conflict Cartography

Animals As Leaders - Kascade

Animals As Leaders - Physical Education

Archie Pelago & Grenier - Navigator

Asgeir - Living Water

Asgeir - Snowblind

Avishai Cohen - Abie

Avishai Cohen - C#

Avishai Cohen - Nu Nu

Bartees Strange - Sober

Billie Eilish - Oxytocin

Bill Laurence - A Blaze

Ben Howard - Small Things

Black Dub - I Believe In You

Bon Iver - THINGS BEHIND THINGS BEHIND THINGS

Bon Iver - Woods

Bon Iver - Minnesota, WI

Björk - Joga

Björk - Bachelorette

Charlie Hunter & Jobu Smith -  Jobu's Poem

Charlie Hunter - Fine Corinthian Leather 

Christian Scott - Dialect

D'Angelo - Brown Sugar

Daft Punk - Get Lucky

Deftones - Digital Bath

Depeche Mode - World In My Eyes

Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits - Money For Nothing

Dire Straits - Fade To Black

Emancipator - Nevergreen

Eric Clapton - Blues Before Sunrise

Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven

Eric Gales - Something’s Gotta Give

Eric Johnson - Soulful Terrain

Esperanza Spalding - Unconditional Love

Explosions In The Sky - Wilderness

Explosions In The Sky - A Song For Our Fathers

Ezra Collective - The Herald

Ezra Collective - Victory Dance

Fat Freddy's Drop - Blackbird

Finnegan Tui - Once I'm Gone

Finnegan Tui - Bones

Fink - Looking Too Closely

Fleetwood Mac - Dreams

Flying Lotus - Do The Astral Plane

Ghost Note - JB s Out! (Do It Babay)

Ghost Note - Conversations

GoGo Penguin - Soon Comes Night

GoGo Penguin - Umbra

Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage

Gojira - New Found

Gregory Porter - Liquid Spirit

Heilung - Svanrand

Hiatus Kaiyote - Shaolin Monk Motherfunk

Intervals - A Different Light

Intervals - Neurogenesis

Infected Mushroom - Becoming Insane 

Jacob Collier - Feel

Jacob Collier - Moon River

Jeff Beck - Brush With the Blues

Jeff Beck - What Mama Said

Joe Armon-Jones - Ode 2 Reverb

John Coltrane - Giant Steps

Joni Mitchell - Coyote

Jordan Rakei - Clouds

Julian Lage - Nocturne

Kandace Springs - Devil May Care

Kandace Springs - Don't Need The Real Thing

Kandace Springs - Soul Eyes

Kandace Springs - Too Good To Last

Kryptic Minds - Brief Passing

Kryptic Minds - Can't Sleep

Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter - Black Crow

Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter - Boogie Down

Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks

Led Zeppelin - Black Dog

Leprous - Silently Walking Alone

Leprous - Atonement 

Leprous - Have You Ever

Lianne La Havas - Wonderful

London Grammar - Hey Now

London Grammar - House

Lucky Daye - Karma

Lucky Daye - HERicane

Matthew Halsall - Canopy & Stars

Mark Littieri - Barreleye

Mark Littieri - Pulsar

Maya Delilah - Squeeze

Maya Delilah - Begin Again

Massive Attack - Teardrop

Massive Attack - Paradise Circus

Meshell Ndegeocello - Love Song  1

Meshell Ndegeocello - Trust

Meshuggah - Broken Cog

Meshuggah - New Millennium Cyanide Christ

Michael Landau - I’m Buzzed

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue

Moonchild - Too Much to Ask

Moonchild - Wise Women

Norah Jones - Don't Know Why

Nubya Garcia - Odyssey

Nubya Garcia - Boundless Beings

Nubya Garcia - Stand With Each Other

Om Unit - Ascension

Om Unit - Camo

Om Unit - Angles

Pat Metheny - Are You Going With Me?

Pat Metheny - Have You Heard

Pat Metheny - The First Circle 

Periphery - Wildfire

Periphery - Reptile

Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Plini - Electric Sunrise

Plini - Inhale

Polyphia - Chimera

Prodigy - Breathe

Rage Against The Machine - Bulls On Parade

The RH Factor - Hardgroove

The RH Factor - The Joint

Robben Ford - The Champ

Robben Ford - Up The Line

Robert Glasper - Better Than I Imagined

Robert Glasper - Black Superhero

RY X - Untold

RY X - Your Love

Sevendust - Denial

Sevendust - Praise

Snarky Puppy - Bet

Snarky Puppy - Grown Folks

Snarky Puppy - Lingus

Snarky Puppy - Trinity

Steely Dan - Babylon Sisters

Talking Heads - Born Under Punches

Talking Heads - Burning Down the House

Tame Impala - Breathe Deeper

Tedeschi Trucks Band - These Walls

Tedeschi Trucks Band - Revelator

Tedeschi Trucks Band - Learn To Love

Terence Blanchard - Cosmic Warrior

Tesseract - Echoes

Tesseract - Nocturne (P O R T A L S)

Tigran Hamasyan - The Curse

The Comet is Coming - CODE

The Comet is Coming - Blood of the Past

Them Crooked Vultures - Gunman

The Mars Volta - Inertiatic ESP

The Mars Volta - Aberinkula

The Mars Volta - Goliath

Tom Misch - The Journey

Tool - Pneuma

Tool - The Pot

Tool - Vicarious

Trivium - Silence in the Snow

Vulfpeck - Birds of a Feather, We Rock Together

Yosi Horikawa - Bubbles

Yosi Horikawa - Swashers

Yussef Dayes - What Kind Of Music