10 Best Bass Songs For Testing Your Headphones or Speakers

Headphones are getting better every day. Better technology, unique design, or greater performance. All this pushed us into the shop to buy a new pair of headphones or a new speaker.

Shopping for the best model requires you to do research and testing of your own to ensure you get the right device. And when you are looking for headphones, you need clean, crisp sound, wide frequency range, and deep bass.

Perhaps the best way how to test basses on headphones or speakers is to test them with great bass songs. An important note: Use songs with bass you like and also what you know really well.

We know how important is to have the best headphones possible. To help you navigate it, we’ve selected the best headphones available in 2022.

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Sony WHH900N Hear On 2 Wireless Overear Noise Cancelling High Resolution Headphones, 2.4 Ounce

Sony WH-H900N

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Bose QuietComfort 35 II Wireless Bluetooth Headphones, Noise-Cancelling, with Alexa Voice Control - Black

Bose QuietComfort 35 Series II

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HyperX Cloud Gaming Headset for PC, Xbox One¹, PS4, PS4 PRO, Xbox One S¹, Nnintedo Switch (KHX-H3CL/WR) - Black

Kingston HyperX Cloud

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Today we want to share our favorite songs for testing the bass of your new device.

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Are you looking for songs with intense, luminous bass for testing new headphones, speakers, or car subwoofers? Here are our Top 10.

Best Bass Songs For Testing Your Headphones or Speakers

Just A Lil Bit – 50 Cent

Why It Works for a Speaker Test: This song starts off with a heavy, strong bass sound to it, and keeps going until the end. Just the right music to test from the very beginning.

I Against I – Massive Attack feat. Mos Def

Why It Works for a Speaker Test: We recommend to low the volume as possible and listening. Can’t get a better bass line than that.

The Four Horsemen – Metallica

Why It Works for a Speaker Test: If you love bass, let’s turn the mids and highs off and feel the bass line that interplays between the drummer Lars Ulrich and bassist Cliff Burton.

Violent – Tupac

Why It Works for a Speaker Test: If you are not a fan of 2Pac, you should easily miss this track. Just listen. Needless to say, this one must be in the collection for soundcheck.

Shock – Fear Factory

Why It Works for a Speaker Test: A great tester song for rock and metal lovers. Pretty sure the bass wave that kicks in with the vocals is somewhere around the 50Hz range.

P.I.M.P. – Three 6 Mafia

Why It Works for a Speaker Test: A classic old-school rap. The tunes of the songs are rolling and you can feel the strong, heavy and deep bass.

Still Fly – Big Tymers

Why It Works for a Speaker Test: A must song for anyone looking for great bass songs for headphones. For us too. This Big Tymers song needs time, but after you turn the volume up, the driving beat and alternating high and low bass drum will convince you.

Under the Influence – Chemical Brothers

Why It Works for a Speaker Test: A good song for a test. Right at the beginning, there’s a sine tone that continuously drops pretty low and it lets me know if there are any “dips” at any point in the low-end frequency response.

My Name Is Mud – Primus

Why It Works for a Speaker Test: A particularly strong and driving bass line goes throughout the entire Primus song. The dragging tempo and thick bass drum add to the overall bass feel of this song.

Brass Monkey – Beastie Boys

Why It Works for a Speaker Test: Bass, bass, and again bass. Wait 10 seconds after the song starts and then turn up the volume. The big booming bass can easily blow a lesser speaker part.

This is our list of best bass songs to test the sound quality of headphones and speakers. We are using these songs as good testers for new devices.

Listen to any of these hits with a pair of good bass headphones, and let the thumping bass animate your spirit and rock your body.

if you want more inspiration, below are other great bass songs for a good test

We know this isn’t a complete list, but these are some of the great bass songs that are popular and really bump.

Any audio enthusiast should put together their own favorite group of tunes like this. To get the best possible fidelity from songs, buy the CD or download the highest possible quality of MP3 tracks available (recommended 256 kbps or better).

If you don’t like our top 10 songs above, give a try to some of these other songs with good bass. 

  • Notorious BIGJuicy (great songs to test the clarity of speakers)
  • DMX feat. Sean Paul and Mr. VegasHere Comes The Boom
  • Lil’ WayneA Milli (Heaviest on the bass rap song we know)
  • N.E.R.D.Lemon
  • The Psycho RealmStone Garden
  • Jacob MillerKeep On Knocking
  • Errol DunkleyYou Never Know
  • De la SoulDeclaration
  • Westside ConnectionBow Down
  • XzibitU Know
  • Barrington LevyJah
  • Lil WayneSix Foot, Seven Foot

Now, you have a list of tracks for a proper test. But you don’t have headphones? Look no further than these suggestions. Note: speakers and headphones are subjective. Your ears are the most important ones to judge. Play the songs with the great bass listed above for an enjoyable experience.

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