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After hearing wonderful sounds from the MBL, Magico, Tannoy and KEF rooms (the Blades sounded terrific and the little LS50's are phenomenal at their $1500 price point but other than being nearfield monitors share little in common with the LS3/5A they are supposed to be derived from) at the recent California Audio Show, I walked into the Electrocompaniet room and was surprised to hear a real piano being played in the next room but in fact they were Brodmann speakers, speakers from the Bosendorfer company that made pianos. I was told that the speakers were voiced for piano which made sense. Both different pairs of speakers had tweeters on the front baffle and side firing woofers and resonating "fins" on the rear sides of the enclosures. It made me think of some Sonus Fabers that were supposedly voiced for string instruments, Harbeths for human voice, etc. Perhaps there is a niche towards designers voicing speakers with particular instruments in mind superseding flat frequency response curves and general music tastes?
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"Perhaps there is a niche towards designers voicing speakers with particular instruments in mind superseding flat frequency response curves and general music tastes?"
If accuracy is what you're after, you'll still need a smooth response from the system even after voicing.
Now, if you have a piano as your reference sound, you've set a pretty high bar indeed. The frequency range of operation, and the harmonics it generates beyond the key struck, put quite a strain on a speaker that is limited in dynamic capability. That first attack requires a speaker that can hit high peak SPL without compression. So if the result of voicing such a speaker is that it's tough to distinguish from the real thing, that's no small accomplishment.
I'd be surprised if such a system that faithfully reproduces such a wide range instrument were to be miserable at reproducing voices, or guitars or drums, etc. But getting something to sound "like" a piano may not be enough. Does it sound like that particular piano? If the answer is yes, then the response should also be flat, along with being voiced properly.
Of course, there's varying degrees of what's considered flat. A dB here or there, whether it's a narrow or broad peak depending on the chosen drivers, can really have an impact on the final sound. It's a subtle process, but voicing is part of the "art" in speaker design that puts the finishing touch on the science.
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