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In the Thread: Macondo 2.0?
Post Subject: Piano is a special casePosted by rowuk on: 11/22/2022
For my ears, the piano is rich in harmonics that change with playing volume BUT the only way to get a louder note is with the hammer striking the strings more powerfully which always is coupled to a louder "articulation". Violins and wind instruments can independently change color and volume without an additional attack. From an audio point of view, each piano note is an isolated audio event. Naturally, great players leverage those singular events to create musical line and drama that is connected.
I think that piano playback is a completely different challenge as speakers deal with the percussive articulation followed by tone very much differently in the various ranges. "Recreating" a plausible piano sound is a special discipline as the percussive portion and the tone/decay have natural proportions that speakers like to inconsistently exaggerate or soften - especially ported, passive radiated or transmissionline architectures. This is why I have problems getting my head around a Dunnoy concept - disjunct lowest octave (due to what the woofer can not do and the "support" of the passive, time delayed Scanspeak) and transition from cone to horn. I could imagine a luscious midrange with some kind of "IT", but my perception would probably spoil the event in a serious way - especially with the instruments that I intimately know.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site