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In Reply to: RE: 3.x model option posted by Satie on May 05, 2017 at 01:33:12
I believe aggressively hit (hard!) acoustic piano notes require a lot of power too. "Shattered" piano notes, from mis-tracking cartridges, power amps clipping, and even recording microphone capsules being overloaded, are not unheard of.
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Well, pianos can do real forte. I can say that one of the things I got from swapping the mids for a line of Neo8 was the jump factor from well recorded piano transient. Particularly with amps having ample transient peak power. One of my favorites on the mids is the modified NuForce Ref. 8 as it has only a 100W rating but can swing 600W for a few milisec. Which is what the piano calls for. Despite the low 90s db sensitivity of the line array, about 6db and change more than the maggie original I did run the little switching amp hot, But the 60W mod. Dyna III do just fine.
Before that the piano did not come off right. it was rather obviously compressed on loud transients. But then I only expect a piano come through with full power on large horn systems like the laScala or Altec VOT models. Despite their steep price tag I was surprised to hear how close to that the Focal Nova Utopia managed to get.
Yeah Satie, piano is one of the hardest instruments for a system to make sound real, their transient nature one major reason. The same is true for drums, and for the same reason. One of the most startling things about Direct-To-Disc LP's is their transient response---it makes percussive instruments like piano and drums sound much more alive than does a recording made on a tape machine. Digital I won't even mention!
Yes, I wish direct to disc was cheaper, but it just produces limited runs. So any sought after recording would never be cheap.
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