Classical Music for Aficionados

RV   i am glad you enjoyed my recommendations as I have been listening to them a lot especially the Scriabin . You are so right with your observation of Chopin and Rachmaninov because I think his earlier pieces are every bit as good as Chopin's, epecially the Mazurkas that he composed. Did you know that Scriabin was in the same classes as Rachmaninov and Joseph Lhevinne, in fact he nearly ruined his hands for good because he was trying to become as good as Lhevinne especially in octave playing. Lhevinne and Rachmaninov had huge hands and Scriabin had very small hands and he damaged them very seriously but eventually got them to work properly again.Len   You are saying about laptops yes you can get really good sound especially from Apples so if you don't want to go the bespoke way get an i Pad and I think you could be very happy with it. A few years ago I did go the bespoke way and built myself a really high quallity but admittedly very expensive one with hand made Linear power supplies Femto USB and Network cards and loads of other things designed just to get the best quallity from a computer. This machine is so good that I have ripped all my CDs to Solid State Hard Drives . After I did that and listened to it for a few weeks from my ripped CDs I then sold my CD player which was a Gryphon Mikado Signature because the difference was so profound, it is so good and dare I say sounds very analogue with no digital nasties.
The Mikado now resides in a house in South Korea with a very nice wee man. If there is any chance that you could even beg a loan of someones Pad then please do so before you fully commit but I am sure you would get sustantially better sound than now because if I am anyone to go by all I can say is Idagio can sound stunning on my set up. Good luck my friend.

Sudbin
He has recorded some Beethoven as well as the Scriabin you mention.
I have his Haydn and Scarlotti, both of which I love.
Now downloading Borodin, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich - \
Russian Cello Sonatas Yevgeny Sudbin, Alexander Chaushian 2011
https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Cello-Sonatas-Alexander-Chaushian/dp/B004QI14WU

Its on my laptop and least it stays on eating cookies .My go to Beyer DT 990 Pro is too much for the laptop so I just ordered 2.5mm connects for my senns and bought some Audioquest Nighthawk phones which are low impedence and might work better with my Audioquest Dragonfly .
I LOVE the Leos Janacek string qts and they sound OK with a cheap pr of Sony’s I had hanging around.I don’t like the baby ABC way it sets up but see why they need too .But for 10$ a month so what.

I must be rich , the US Social Security Bureau just sent me a letter telling me I am in the top 5% in wealth of all folks receiving Social Security which
is 95% of all Americans over 65 . I am fairly well off but not rich , must be a lot of poor folk out there ! Why they would write such a letter is beyond me .  Perhaps they think I'm a MAGA  prospect .

Len.       Have you ever considered a dedicated Headphone amplifier as they can usually take just about any impedence you care to throw at them. I think they would also allow much more quallity of sound as well. I have a Sennheiser HDVD800 head amp driving a pair of Sennheiser HD800 Phones which are high impedence at 300 Ohms and they are a breeze with the dedicated amp. In fact the head amp is so bomb proof that many times a friend of mine and I have had nights over at my place and he has connected his Hi Fi Man phones to the amp also and we have sat for hours listening to lots of music in fact a couple of times my wife joined us and we had three pairs of phones though the Headamp and it didn't even get warm.

Thanks , jim . I have a Beyer A 20 amp, built like a brick, as all Beyer gear is , that drives my DT 990 600 ohm easily . By my bed so I can have a Leos Janacek Qt . lull me to sleep . The "On an Overgrown Path" album on idagio is outstanding . Perhaps 15 years ago I heard my first Janacek and became a groupy within 30 seconds . Were such possible I’d like one of his Qts. played at my funeral .