rvpiano
Responses from rvpiano
| High Performance Audio - The End? On the question of “diminishing returns,” I do believe after a certain point, the improvements in a system become so minimal as to not justify tons of money being poured into it. (Unless money is no object to you.) I’m not speaking about a $5000 s... | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? Should read “does NOT sound good“Sorry | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? And, by corollary, a system which does sound good with good and bad recordings is similarly not balanced properly. | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? Maybe, just maybe, Magnepans, Quads and the like for all their high reputation, are not well balanced, but tweaked to achieve a certain end. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Just listening now to the secular cantatas of J.S. Bach.Delightful! | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados For Schumann, try Richter. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Thank you, jcazador. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Jim,Thank you for your kind thoughts.Thankfully, The unspeakable pain is gone, just normal pain.And, I’m starting to walk without too much difficulty.Sorry I didn’t respond to you sooner. I just read your post | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? I listen to mostly classical music, which you might think would be a natural for accurate reproduction of real instruments in a real space. But even here, producers generally have a hand in “shaping” the music. In the early days of stereo, an or... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I’m trying! | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Jim,I had the same thought vis a vis Pletnev.One of the greats. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I’ve listened to most of the Trifonov compilation.Very competent playing. I wish I could be more enthusiastic about the interpretations. He certainly has the chops to play this music. In fact, he chooses slower tempos to bring out the incredibl... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Found it on Idagio. Listening now.Pletnev orchestrations of Chopin very nice. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Sounds great! Cannot find it for sale anywhere. | |
| Listening as a civilian All your responses make me appreciate what a wonderful community this is. |