High Efficiency Speaker Asylum: RE: Hi-eff doing justice to piano reproduction? by itsthemusic Need speakers that can rock with just one watt? You found da place.

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Posted by itsthemusic (R ) on September 10, 2009 at 16:30:44

In Reply to: Hi-eff doing justice to piano reproduction? posted by ElDragon on September 9, 2009 at 09:20:20:

B & W geeeezzzzz!!!!. I remember being in a well known speaker mfg's room at CES several years ago and asking ,as I always do, "don't you have any classical piano recordings?". He replied..
"gee the piano .that's really tough to reproduce" and changed the subject. I guess that the answer was "NO".
I've owned Edgar horns, JBL S3100 and Altec VOTT(new but standard xo) and Maggie Tympanis and Spendor SP100s. They all did a reasonably good job. But in each case they flanked a baby grand piano and it was no contest. In some ways the Tympanis might have been the closest to real. Particularly when listening from another room. But B & Ws. No thank you.
Really good horns are not "horny" sounding. The real ear opener is visiting a pianist's home
and hearing a grand piano played in a fair sized living room. Many rock groups don't get that loud.

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