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In the Thread: The Loudspeaker (Troels Gravesen project); Finally!
Post Subject: The Left Hand of Josef HofmannPosted by Paul S on: 10/12/2023
Some years back I posted on the Musical Discussions board
about a remarkable Everest recording (X-923) of Josef Hofmann, and I mentioned then that I
thought this recording was pretty amazing, based on the Music I was easily able
to extract from it. Here is a link to that post:
http://www.romythecat.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PageIndex=1&postID=7008#7008
At the time of that post I was listening via my BassZilla
speakers driven by Lamm ML2s. Later, I used the BassZillas with Marantz MA 9S2 amps. Today, I listened to the same recording via The
Loudspeakers driven by Marantz MA-9S2s. People like to throw around the term
“realistic” in connection with home audio, and this is actually funny when the music under consideration was played
by Josef Hofmann, winding up on a closely mic’d Hamburg Steinway B. Talk about power… I suspect that few people would actually want the live performance in their listening room. The first thing that fairly jumped out at me
today was Hofmann’s left hand work, and how much richer and more powerfully the
work presents with both the greater frequency range and more effortless
dynamics than I have heard before. If these speakers tilt up at all, it is
certainly not much, and, likewise, the low frequencies only come up with increased volume. Then,the long, wrapped strings really stick to their original
pitches while in no way shorting the rest of the “frequency range”. Great, natural balance. I mentioned
I was weeping after Bruckner 7 via The Loudspeakers. Today, after the Chopin, I
was laughing. I have really been enjoying myself.
Paul S
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