Re: “What’s the point in bothering about the quality if you can’t tell the difference?”

On 9 août, 09:03, mandryka <howie.st...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There’s a poor recording of Richter playing  Debussy Etudes .

I used to find this very heard to listen to. It’s an amateur
recording, probably badly transferred.

But on my new, better, hi fi, it’s no problem at all. Somehow the
system draws out so much of the piano tone, makes it more prominent,
focuses it, that you can listen with much more pleasure. This
musicality isn’t just about tone and focus: it’s also about the
stability of how the sound is placed in the stereo image, the
sharpness and  intensity of the attack that the speakers reproduce,
and a whole lot of other things which I haven’t taken the trouble
(yet) to analyse.

Same for loads of others – Schnabel on Pearl, The Galimir Quartet’s
recording of the Ravel Quartet ,The  Kalish playing Schubert’s G major
and the The  Capet in Beethoven Ops 131 and 132

I think it is time you reveal the what and who of the set that's
making you so happy. Not to devolve into an endless 'metal
defecation' (pace the Cat) about brands, but just to get an idea what
you're talking about.
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