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Just wondering if anyone here has tested their amp/speaker combo by using an electronic piano as a source? I've never read any magazine reviews doing this, but if piano music is your thing, maybe it would make sense?
I'd love to think that would put to bed any nonsense about valves being irrelevant.davedotco said:Electronic pianos have no 'sound' of their own, they are not acoustic instruments so you have absolutely no basis on which to base a comparison.
An uncompressed recording of a real piano, no that is something else.
I have mentioned this before but I have heard a number of DSD recordings played back in the room in which they were recorded, acoustic instruments and voice in the main.
Playback equipment was a pair of huge ribbon hybrid speakers and a pair of massive valve mono blocks, side by side live vs recorded comparisons could not be done but the playback was incredibly real, those present (recording professionals) at both the recording and the playback thought it pretty accurate.
The op was trying to make a point about comparing live with recorded, something of a holy grail for some entusiasts.NSA_watch_my_toilet said:I'd love this would put to bed, peoples speaking about off topic themes, under other peoples topics.
Some people like to find trouble where there is none.....thewinelake. said:I certainly didn't regard it as "off-topic" and the logic seemed reasonable to me....
When I was at a well known broadcaster, a test used to evaluate digital audio systems was the decay of a single piano note.thewinelake. said:Just wondering if anyone here has tested their amp/speaker combo by using an electronic piano as a source? I've never read any magazine reviews doing this, but if piano music is your thing, maybe it would make sense?
You were at the BBC in the early 1970s?andyjm said:I recall a demonstration of the 'new' PCM digital system for FM distribution...
You were at the BBC in the early 1970s?andyjm said:I recall a demonstration of the 'new' PCM digital system for FM distribution...