CAN WE AUDIOPHILES DO OUR PART?


So we're all tired of hearing about nothing but Covid-19 (or, as I term it, the C-Plague). What can we do, as audiophiles, to help with all this.
I was amazed, and delighted, when I went to the Cardas website to see that they are doing their part. Go to their website and you'll see their director, Angela Cardas, wearing a mask. If you click on the Cardas Nautilus logo in the upper left corner, you'll see pictures of people there in the factory making masks with sewing machines. I called the company to congratulate them, and spoke with a woman named Darla, who said it was their way, during this economic slump, to keep their employees working and also their way of trying to "do our part."
I'm not writing all this to advertise Cardas products. They are a very good company, but trust your ears, not anything I write, when it comes to buying their products. They do get credit, however, for helping me come to a realization that pushed me in the right direction. I called a woman I am friends with, who is 85 years old and is a good seamstress, to suggest she start making masks. She already was--and is. By phone she has organized several other women to do the same, and right now they are needing more material and elastic. I managed to gather about 50 pounds of material and am starting to gather elastic while also getting more material. But I don't sew. I can't help out with that. Any ideas as to what we--all of us who are good with our ears and focused with our budgets--can do to help out in other ways?

I realize this is an odd topic to bring to an audio forum, but it was a very socially responsible audio company that got me to thinking about it, and frankly I believe I should be socially responsible enough to do what I can to get other people to thinking about it. While also being open to other people's ideas about ways someone like me who is "just an audiophile" can help.

Thank you, in advance, for any and all ideas on this.



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This: if DT had had the same experience over the last three months that Boris Johnson did, we'd be somewhere very different today.

Ervin Nyiregyházi is indeed amazing. Best sound probably to be found on the 2 CDs features here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_55QBVmzsU But perhaps some of the magic of the earlier stuff is missing.

A really good-sounding modern recording of Liszt by a still-young pianist is "Transcendental", by Daniil Trifonov.

Murray Perahia is always a very listenable pianist, but I agree that he excels in Mozart. As he does in Mendelssohn.

I've always found Argerich a stupendous technician but not as "human" as some.

There are many, many really great pianists, both of the past and the present.  Many had a particular affinity with one or two composers.

Personal preference also obviously comes into it.  I like Andras Schiff, for instance, and in "period" performance Andreas Staier.

Glupson, you should join us over on the Classical aficionado thread.
Wow!  Things are finally looking up around here.  Someone quoting Jean-Paul Sartre (asvjerry, albeit unknowingly??).  For a really uplifting read, try "Huis clos".