When choosing a speaker, fans will use audition to judge the quality of the speaker, and make judgments and choices accordingly.

No matter which method you choose, everyone should know how to choose the type of music to listen to. Personally, I think the key is to know what kind of music has certain requirements for speakers.

The overall performance of the speakers: Although many people have a single listening preference, some speakers are indeed suitable for listening to some music. But speakers have to be bought and listened to for many years, and people's preferences will change. As the types of music you listen to broaden and your preferences change, the weaknesses of some speakers will be immediately exposed. This is why many people frequently upgrade and replace speakers. Therefore, during the audition, you need to comprehensively evaluate the performance of the audition on various types of music and know where your compromise points are. What aspects need to be strengthened when upgrading in the future, which can greatly reduce the possibility of upgrading in the future, reduce tuition fees, and enjoy music more instead of wasting money?

Here, the author briefly lists the requirements for speakers when playing back various music, hoping it will be helpful to everyone. According to the requirements for speakers in audio tests, generally speaking, I personally think that the requirements for speakers from low to high are:

Ordinary popular vocals paired with audiophile-level vocal jazz music = hifi fever instrumental music records = Classical small and medium-sized arrangements, medium-sized symphony music, piano solo, large-scale symphony music, piano concertos, large-scale opera organ concertos, symphonies

It should be noted that the above relationship is only a simple one, not absolute. But generally speaking it shouldn't be a big problem. I personally think there are several musical forms that test different aspects of the speaker, so I use the equal sign.

Moreover, there are very few boxes that can play all the above music well! Even if there is one, it is still the world's top box, and the entire system is roughly in the millions. So choose carefully. For the 5" by 6" box, don't try the later ones. Most 6.5-inch or 7-inch boxes are not used. A final sound check is only required if the size exceeds 8 inches. Let’s talk about it in detail below:

1. Most of the ordinary domestic pop music recordings are not particular, and the post-processing will be relatively more, and sometimes even the singer’s voice will be completely changed. Most of today today's singers are not the same as they were twenty years ago. Songs are generally put online for people to listen to, and people who listen usually have mobile phones and ordinary Bluetooth headsets. So the recording is even less particular. If it is used for audition, it cannot test whether the speaker is good or bad with a high probability.

2. The recording of feverish vocals can be roughly divided into two categories. First, there are many covers of saliva songs on the market. This kind of recording is not unscrupulous, but too particular. This kind of attention is to add a lot of MSG, such as improving the frequency band of human voice and teeth, increasing high-frequency energy, etc. The advantage of this kind of record is that it sounds hifi, the disadvantage is: listen to hifi in any ordinary way. But it often doesn't sound good on better systems. The other is that the recording is very feverish, but it is not achieved in a refined way. Most of the classical vocal pop recordings abroad are like this. There are many in China, but basically they are not cover songs. There is a special person, she is Cai Qin. Her records, especially the later ones, still have a lot of MSG, but they can also be used for listening. The key is that her singing skills are very good, and MSG does not change this, it just strengthens some hifi elements to make not-so-good equipment sound good.

3. Another type of feverish vocals are mainly imported, such as hunters. Their unique characteristics are that they don't have much MSG recording, but they have excellent recording, superb singing skills, and high equipment requirements. But it's not very high. The frequency response of vocal recording is only required to be at the 50Hz level, and the vocal subwoofer will be whatever it is. Passive speakers and 5-inch boxes can also broadcast easily. At the same time, the requirements for timbre are not high. And because the human voice is only tested in the mid-range, and the mid-range of most speakers is not bad, you can narrow the gap between good speakers and poor speakers by auditioning with human voices, or even vice versa. Some general boxes have a higher frequency response and the corresponding frequency band will be higher, so the human voice will sound better. But really good vocals are achieved through the characteristics of the unit and diaphragm and the direct frequency response. As a consumer, there is nothing wrong with liking the human voice. But it is easy to misjudge using this as a standard. As a business, it’s okay to record some sounds for consumers to listen to.

But if there are tens of thousands of speakers, and the audition only records human voices, then either the equipment is limited in strength, or the level of self-tuning is limited, most of them are. More than 2,000 boxes of NS16 come with natural sounds, mostly produced with instrumental music during demonstrations or recordings. However, with my NS17 speakers, during the demo, I didn't record much sound. They mainly focus on classical music such as large dynamic symphonies and string piano.

Jazz requires a lot of equipment. The low frequencies of jazz bands tend to be around 40Hz. That kind of lazy feeling, the atmosphere of the scene, and playing well requires quite good equipment, and jazz vocals are more expressive. Therefore, auditioning with jazz music is often done using a lot of expensive equipment. But jazz music also has its own particularities. The requirements for timbre are often opposite to those of classical music, requiring high frequency and delicateness to sound good. The low frequency response speed is the same. Jazz requires slower and fatter low frequencies to sound good, while classical music generally requires the opposite, especially large dynamic symphonies. As a result, although many large-diameter speakers that play jazz music are poisonous, the fineness of high frequencies is not that good, and the speed of low frequencies is often too slow. In addition, the vocals in jazz music records are all in the shape of a big mouth, and sometimes the image is a bit scattered. Therefore, I personally feel that there is no problem in listening to jazz music, which tests the low-frequency looseness of the speakers and the expressiveness of vocals, but other music is still needed for comprehensive judgment. If you mainly listen to this type of music, there's no problem at all.

5. HiFi fever recording. There are many such recordings. The recording by domestic teacher Li Xiaopei is very good. Includes songs and heartstrings. They have very high requirements for equipment, such as low-frequency dive, dynamics, speed, sound field performance, etc. However, these records generally have slightly lower requirements for high-frequency delicacy, and are not as dynamic as the large-scale compilation of classics. Many businesses are a little scared when auditioning with them. There are not many small boxes that can grow well.

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