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Originally Posted by Key  Not for me personally. In my experience I need a variety of sounds to really expose weaknesses in an SRC. And if it's a song I have no problem listening to it over and over but those clips you posted I only listened a couple of times before it became very monotonous and I just shut them off. It makes the perceived importance small imo when you are just using 3 very short sounds and not a song. |
If you test hundreds of devices with hundreds of listeners over thousands hours over a couple of decades chances are you'll find that short clips is a sharper instrument when looking for audible artefacts.
Of course there are exceptions though.
Most people that use songs when testing seem to look for a "hard part" and focus on that anyway.
It also goes without saying that you need a variety of sounds depending on what kind of errors you are looking for in gear but when looking for an answer to the question(s) that led to the test in this thread it's pretty obvious why I choosed the instruments I did. I'll do more tests though and will use cymbals as well then.
/Peter