IsoTek Ultimate System Set-Up Disc

ULTIMATE SYSTEM SET-UP DISC 20 Tracks to help set-up, test and fine-tune your audio system. The CD consists of a mix of music, sounds and voices, incorporating 14 specific test and tune-up tracks alongside carefully selected music from the highly regarded Opus3 music label. Channel evaluation. Phase test. Speaker position and soundstage tests. Stereo image depth tests. Frequency range tests. Six music tracks from Opus3 music label to test your system after calibration.     ESSENTIALS This new CD created by IsoTek aims to improve your system’s sound by ensuring it is correctly set-up and ready to perform at its best. The Ultimate System Set-Up Disc contains a mix of stunning music recordings from the legendary Opus3 audiophile record label, each one chosen to test specific elements of audio performance such as timing, dynamics and soundstaging. In additional IsoTek have created 14 test and tune-up tracks each carefully designed to help you set up your system and correctly position your loudspeakers. IsoTek have created an fall proof way to insure you obtain the maximum performance from your audio system in a logical, easy to understand way. A simple to use, effective and utterly practical CD that any audiophile can use irrespective of prior knowledge level. Please note, this disc will help you create the optimal stereo sound stage for your particular listening environment. It will require users to adjust speaker position and placement carefully to achieve this. Tracks 5, 6, 7 & 8 are designed as test tracks which highlight if further adjustment is required. Once left to right speaker position is optimized for your particular location use tracks 9 to 12 to improve and test sound stage depth. This will require moving your speakers forwards and backwards at little at a time. Clear spoken instruction is given for each set-up procedure.   TRACK LISTING Introduction Channel Evaluation Phase Test Loudspeaker Position & Adjustment Soundstage Test – Intro Soundstage Test 360-Degree Test – Intro 360-Degree Test Stereo Image Depth-Intro Stereo Image Depth Test 1 Stereo Image Depth Test 2 Stereo Image Depth Test 3 Frequency Range Test – Increasing (20Hz and progressively increases in frequency every 10 seconds to 20kHz) Frequency Range Test – Decreasing (20kHz and progressively decreases in frequency every 10 seconds to 20Hz) The spot frequencies covered are 20Hz, 43Hz, 93Hz, 200Hz, 430Hz, 930Hz, 2000Hz, 4300Hz, 9300Hz and 20000Hz.    MUSIC TRACKS Eric Bibb: John Henry Tiny Island: Vaquero Dan & The Electrons: Shaken Not Stirred Eva Taylor: Everybody Loves My Baby Omnibus Wind Ensemble: Frank Zapper Matthias Wager: Toccata and Fugue in D-Minor (J.S. Bach)     REVIEW & AWARDS ULTIMATE SYSTEM SET-UP DISC - Read More "This is an unusual and useful disc, made all the more helpful to the newcomer by the information sheet that is available to download from the IsoTek website. This tells you what to do if the results do not tally with those that the voice tells you should be audible, which is always the tricky bit and makes this a set-up disc proper and not merely a demonstration of what the system can achieve. "    ULTIMATE SYSTEM SET-UP DISC - Read More "They range from Bach's 'Toccata and Fugue in D Minor', to 'Tiny Island' by Vaquero, recorded in a church, and involving a rainstick and a steel guitar. I found this disc to be well thought out and practical in the track choices offered. Another must for the toolbox! TB"