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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: Audio Shopping vs. Piano Shopping.

Post Subject: Piano in the audio room.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 9/9/2014

An audio guy contacted me today with and an interesting note: “can't put a piano in the same room as a hifi”. When I asked why he wrote: “scott's steinway sounding board would 'ring' like crazy. it was my theory about why his tannoys sounded even muddier than they should. To prove it, we played a very short loud 'impulse' in the room, then turn it off and listen. You could hear the piano vibrate like crazy, for a relatively long time. Definitely not good. I think there is a big difference between even a cello or a guitar doing some vibrating in the room (almost like your 10" tannoy effect, perhaps) and a huge piano board (mud).”

A valid concern. I did express unhappiness 7 years back about bass overtones when I had my guitar sitting in wrong place.

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I had a baby grand in my listening room for 3 years and did not detect problems. Perhaps I am not too observant but I do not think that I noted that my sound went does with arrival of piano. Guitar is very “bad” because it is very narrow bandwidth Helmholtz resonator. A Piano is another hand is wide bandwidth resistor and it would be less likely that it will be position at the location when acoustic pressure from Hi- Fi would ignite it. Of cause it is only a theory. Did anybody has any practical problem to integrate piano with audio?

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