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If you could just pick one instrument that you think sounds best on your speakers

What would it be? I love my OHM 5000s. The instrument of my choice would be the synthesizer. I'm now listening to EL&P's songs Tank and Tarkus on CD. Ive just played them 3 times because it gives me good frisson. (Other thread). In the opening of Sade "Smooth Operator" the synthesizer sounds like its notes are moving all around in the room. It's the same with Tears for Fears "The Working Hour". 
So if you could just pick one instrument that your speaker plays the best at. What would it be? I'm sure this would be a tough question for some members because there are many great speakers that do very good at all music. It might also be one instrument you like hearing best anyway. So what would be your choice? 
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charles1dad
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Well perhaps I'm inferring blueranger's request improperly but he didn't ask for speaker identification.  He asked for one instrument that sounds best. Anyway it's a fun endeavor. 
Charles 
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tntranch
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Khorns fronts, Lascala rears & center Belle. Depends on the recording naturally but if I had to choose, drums & piano's
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mapman
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Ranger I know what you are saying about big Ohms and electronic instruments.    

prof
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I'm sure we all want to say "everything."  But restricting the answer asked by the OP, I'd say:  Oboes/Bassoons.

I'm a soundtrack fan, and love Bernard Herrmann fan, especially the fantasy films - Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, etc - and his scores are notable for incredibly evocative use of the lower, growly registers of the wind instruments, especially Oboe, Bassoon etc.  

One of the main aspects that attracted me to my Thiel (2.7) speakers is, aside from the authentic tone, was the incredible image focus and density to the sound.  All this comes together especially right in the range of the lower registers of woodwinds.  When a Herrmann woodwind is growling away menacingly, it's just "there" in front of me, a big, palpable instrument, vibrating the air in front of me.  For a Herrmann fan it's just heaven.  (I played the vinyl LP of Herrmann's Taxi Driver soundtrack, which has some killer moments of menacing solo woodwinds,   for my musician brother and he was just in shock afterwards.  Even though he's been listening to my various systems throughout the years, he said he's never heard sound reproduction like it.)
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