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In Reply to: Best floorstander $2000-$3000 for solo piano? posted by silence on March 22, 2007 at 16:48:49:
...but the most natural reproduction of piano I heard is on a pair of Cain Abbys driven by a Fi SET amp. The Abbys manage to get the size and richness of the piano just right. The Abbys are far from neutral and flat, although their in room response is not much worse than my previous pair of Spendor S3/5. Not sure whether it has to do with the natural resonances of the speaker itself, but the Abbys make it to present the mechanics of the string and the decay with the most natural tone I heard. After getting the Abby I actually started getting deeper and deeper into solo piano, from popular figures such as Keith Jarrett and Vladimir Ashkenazy all the way to Irene Schweitzer.On the other end, one of my friends who is deeply into classical and plays piano himself, uses a pair of Altecs. His setup is highly optimized for classical music and I have not heard one where you can differentiate between different piano manufacturers as easily. You can immediately tell the difference between a Yamaha, Boesendorfer, or a Steinway.
In both cases, I was surprised since I did not expect either a single driver or a horn to reproduce piano for obvious physics reasons...
Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derjenigen, die die Welt nicht angeschaut haben.
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)
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