How does solo piano help you evaluate audio gear?

@brownsfan  and others, I've been listening to the 1.5 minute piece, "Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings."

It's an outstanding test, easy to get to know, and very revealing.

Bought and was a wee bit disappointed with the Moravec Noctures—Pires on DG sound as good and the playing more to my liking. Under the radar and my go to for demo listening and amazing playing is Uchida Live playing Mozart. Two sublime discs from 1992.

Thanks i will go for it after listening it on youtube... Really good for sound and interpretation...

Britten rules...

@brownsfan  and others, I've been listening to the 1.5 minute piece, "Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings."

It's an outstanding test, easy to get to know, and very revealing.

@mahgister ​​​​@hilde45 I have that Britten piece also.  I love it, and pretty much everything else Benjamin Britten wrote.

@ hilde45

FFS?

really?

You asked:" How important is solo piano recordings to your evaluation of audio equipment -- in relation to, say, orchestra, bass, voice, etc.?"

I attempt to tell you that as an "evaluator" for sound, that no one instrument be it a piano, guitar, oboe or human voice may by itself, hold utmost importance. So no, I do not pray to the "piano" altar as some do as the definitive test for accuracy in sound repro. It to me does no better than a guitar, cymbal, voice, trumpet or clarinet, etc in depiction of timbre, accuracy, dynamics or true to reproduction. An attack note is an attack note. A transient is a transient and a decay is a decay. I’ve heard wonderful piano and shitty voice and have heard wonderful trumpet and shitty piano all on various perspective speakers.

When a person garnering attention here turns petulant, I’m out.

Have fun child.