Hello, appreciate any advice. I have a lot of experience with home audio, but not so much with portable and headphones. I've purchased an iFi Micro iDSD Black Label to use with my HD6xx and Grado 325 headphones. Will probably buy some iem headphones down the road. It seems that a lot of DAPs...

wower, considering that you stated above, "I simply hate people telling others how to listen to musi," I doubt that you'd take much pleasure from reading Aaron Copland's book What to Listen for in Music, however I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one who has found value in reading it. I...

If the first paragraph seemed patronizing, I apologize. That was not my intent. Rather, I had hoped to explicate the strong disagreement I held with some of the previous posts. It's written above, "Which we all know isn't true because our daily life doesn't work like that." I disagree with...

Okay. I've read some things here that make me want to bash my head against the wall and then stab my left eye with a pencil, but I'm going to try and chill out for the duration of this posting. Firstly, I find Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach to each be so instrumental to my life that I would...

I don't know quite how contemporary you're talking, but you might want to look at Leo Ornstein's work. Marc Andre Hamelin has a great recording of Ornstein's music on the Hyperion label.

I'd recommend recordings from labels like BIS, Pentatone, and Harmonia Mundi. The BIS recordings of the Beethoven cycle with the Minnesota Orchestra are the best recordings I have heard. You could also go to classicstoday.com which rates both artistic and recording quality for a large number...