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In the Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room

Post Subject: Piano MeasurementsPosted by Jorge on: 6/30/2012

I have an Upright piano in my listening room, it has been there since day one, so I dont know how different my room would sound wihtout it... Maybe I will haul the piano out one day just to test it: nah...

A bunch of years back we were testing two amps in a friends system, he has an Upright piano in his listening room as well. He had a very nice version of the Jadis Defy 7 amp and was testing a Gryhon Antileon amp to see if we would buy it. We were also playing around with an RTA system and measuring the response of the SS Antileon amp, very spiky response though flat. in one of the silences a friend sort of punched the piano keys, the RTA graphs went all rounded when they had been full of spikes, we then tested the Tube amp and the graphs were rounded again. needless to say he didnt buy the SS amp.

Having listened to your system I am very interested in a comparison between live music and something similar (quartet) sounding in your playback, on the same room, you state that live was "too high resolution" and that for playback you needed a more "dead" room. Can you give us a more detailed descrption?

A close friend recorded in his room a jazz singer with electric guitar on RTR and then played it back, there was not a huge difference! Full horn system did help!

Old WE cinema systems were often used against live orchestras playing in the cinema.... Would have loved to listen to that!

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