What Instrument would you listen to?

whatever you are most familiar with. Piano is very revealing of flaws.

I agree in this scenerio the piano is a good choice. But take it a step further, which recording?

Nothing is more important than timbre. That's the thing no system gets accurate enough to be considered LIVE.
Cheers

I feel that guitar comes closer, better, to a variety of instruments, voice included than any other that I am familiar with. It can have a percussive quality to it, a voice quality to it, it can carry a rhythmic quality or foundation of a piece. It is an instrument that speaks in a variety of ways to to me. For some reason colors come to my mind when I listen to music and for me the guitar creates more colors than any other accoustic instrument that I know of.

Theo, Beethoven Waldstein sonata, Andreas Schiff on ECM always goes with me on auditions.