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hifinutt
wonder where he is now , the Canadians make fantastic speakers like verity audio LohengrinI doubt it. He's banned.
wonder where he is now , the Canadians make fantastic speakers like verity audio LohengrinI doubt it. He's banned.
I think a piano is harder to reproduce than a big orchestra in full flight, and have yet to hear a loudspeaker "do" piano really convincingly. It doesn't help that (to my ears, at least) a lot of classical solo piano recordings are not very well made, with microphones far too close to the piano's insides. I don't want to hear what the pianist hears*Put the question a slightly different way ... what speakers could convincingly reproduce the sound of a grand piano in your living room? Certainly not ESL57s (which I’ve had, and enjoyed), or any of the BBC LS3/5A types. The larger active ATCs get closer than most.
I’m inclined to agree. It’s maybe no coincidence that Billy Woodman, the boss of ATC, was a professional piano player for some years, and one of his motivations in developing the ATC midrange was the realistic reproduction of piano. He said in an interview, talking of when he started in the ‘80s:I'd say some big ATC's, the choice of model depending on room size. Theirs are the speakers installed in Sydney Opera House and the Royal Festival Hall. They are staggeringly neutral, have massive bandwidth and the ability to reproduce huge dynamic swings. Crucially they are tremendously open and for my money offer the most lifelike sound reproduction of any speakers I have ever heard. I have a friend who is a concert pianist and so knows exactly what a Steinway concert grand sounds like having played hundreds of them over the years. On a recent visit and after seeking recommendations from fellow naim forum members for superb piano recordings, we had a listening session on my ATC SCM40's. She was utterly blown away!
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Put the question a slightly different way ... what speakers could convincingly reproduce the sound of a grand piano in your living room? Certainly not ESL57s (which I’ve had, and enjoyed), or any of the BBC LS3/5A types. The larger active ATCs get closer than most.
It couldn’t possibly be that you sell the Steinways and you don’t sell the ATCs could it?A heard the ATC system at British Grove Studios and it was obviously colored or distorted.
Bear in mind British Grove is one of the finest recording studios in the world and I was listening to the 5.1 mix of Brothers in Arms on the system/room it was mixed on.
I commented on how bright it was and the engineer said it was about 4db up 3k.
He visited and heard the Steinway Lyngdorf system and was blown away. “that’s what it should sound like” was his comment.
This is the route I will now likely take.Terribly impressed with the LRS speakers. Nearly got the .7s after a good offer but fell just short sadly. Love what I have now though so may be some time before I look to this.I heard Magneplaner 20's at a HI-FI show in Windsor a couple of years ago.And they where incredible just vanished on a wide variety of Classical and the Trilogy amps and source didn't cost fortunes either.
Absolutely wiped the floor with the nearby Absolute Sounds room I might add.
Amazing speakers.
Yep, 26 of the 88 keys on a Piano are lower than 120Hz, (though to be fair I think you have to use sub-woofers with them).Steinway, Lol, 120hz-22khz
So that's the lowest note of half the orchestra not being reproduced...