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| Why not the piano as a reference for bass @audiokinesis I’m saying that the lowest fundamentals (and sometimes the corresponding first overtones) of the lowest notes of a non-Bosendorfer grand piano contain so little energy that they do not merit being reproduced in a live music settin... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass @billpete Have you witnessed the 64 foot pipe? Alas no! I am slightly friendly with several organists in Sydney but none has hinted when that 64 foot monster might be exercised. Mostly I hear church and cathedral organs, and the refurbished... | |
| A Low Cost Pleasant Sounding Used CD Player? @tsampa Are you suggesting something like a SONY UBP-X800 universal player I was thinking of the even cheaper X700 universal transport! Not something you would want to show off to your mates, but it does a remarkably good job of getting the ... | |
| Is there a problem with Decca's new packaging for vinyl records? @mahler123 No, they will have been mastered as hi-res digital files and then made available as hi-res downloads, CDs and vinyl. | |
| A Low Cost Pleasant Sounding Used CD Player? For under $200 you can get a new universal disk transport from Sony which plays CD, SACD, Bluray and 4K including a vast range of audio formats including multi-channel and Dolby Atmos. You get two HDMI outputs, one purely for audio. Don't even b... | |
| Is there a problem with Decca's new packaging for vinyl records? Just received my latest order from Presto and Decca's recent release on vinyl of Shostakovich's Cello Concerto has the same new-fangled inner sleeves, only the folded inner tab is not as well glued in. Will report once I have cleaned and played t... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass @audiokinesis piano sound spectrum - YouTube From the comments, the guy who posted that video had no idea what microphone was used, let alone what piano or where the microphone was positioned! What I do find interesting is the low modes that... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass @audiokinesis Thanks for the clarification! I don’t agree that the low notes on a modern grand piano (piano-forte or soft-loud) contain so little energy that they do not merit being reproduced. Bosendorfer and Stuart keep extending the keyboar... | |
| Is there a problem with Decca's new packaging for vinyl records? @mahler123 Have you found any new CD with the same performance released on SACD? I can see little point because the SACD usually includes the CD. I am mentally comparing recent full-price purchases of SACDs from BIS and Chandos against recent ... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass @audiokinesis I was once tasked with designing a speaker system for amplifying electric piano No doubt the electric piano was attempting to sound like a real piano? When I play the lowest note on an acoustic piano, the amount of sound energy... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass One of the interesting things about the piano is that the pianist’s ’touch’ does not alter the harmonics present in the note being struck. The best example I can give of this is the astonishing recording of Grieg’s Piano Concerto released in mult... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass @toddalin https://youtu.be/XBXUP5GqYJs Yep, that bass is a plucked double bass but on the released track it was 'doubled' by a bass electric guitar, according to the clip. My point was that there is much more you can do with a double bass th... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass @toddalin Whereas a bass is "plucked" by hand or played with a pick, a piano is struck with a felt-covered hammer and this presents a completely different "leading edge." If we are talking double bass, in most classical music it is mainly bow... | |
| Is there a problem with Decca's new packaging for vinyl records? @mahler123 SACDs seem around 25% higher on Amazon That's why I mainly buy from Presto Classical in England! Obviously any price comparison is a generalisation and I am talking about classical music from European companies where for many label... | |
| What do you do when you get a bad vinyl record pressing? @mikelavigne the first thing i did was to pull out all the digitally sourced pressings, which came to 400-450. these i took to a second hand store and sold them for $200 I wish you could have thrown them my way. Especially now we have found ... |