Good idea! I would say a couple good examples that I get distortion on are: 1. the treble line that starts just after 5 minutes here: 2. toward the end of this short piece: It's possible these are also low quality youtube encodings, but I know I get this distortion with my higher quality...

Awesome. Those look completely reasonable. Thanks so much! What is it about them that makes them more suitable for those kind of sounds?

Thanks for the reply! I just did some googling and, yeah, that kind of stuff is sadly waaaay out of my budget. haha. I guess I should clarify that I don't necessarily require the greatest sound quality in the world (a statement that is perhaps understandably anathema here). I'm just looking to...

Hi! I listen to a lot of 15th-16th century choral music, as well as some more modern, organ-heavy church music. These genres contain lots of very high, straight-tone, piercing treble singing. I've never owned anything really *high end*, but I have decent speakers and have owned Grados, etc. But...