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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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shadorne
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Speakers are ATC EL150ASL with all ATC in house drivers and electronics (no outsourcing). Nicely balanced and neutral with lifelike dynamics.

If I was to pick an instrument that sounds most impressive I think it would be a huge cathedral organ. Not because my speakers portray a huge cathedral organ any more accurately than anything else but simply because this single instrument is one of the most powerful and yet beautiful and delicate at the same time. It also has a range that is impressive and when well played it can produce a layered sound with root bass notes (foot pedals) that just make it the most complete timbral single instrument ever made.

What is your favourite organ piece?
terry9
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Voice, especially Faure's Cantique de Jean Racine, played on an array of Quad 2905's (heavily modified: Plitron transformers, air gap capacitors, disabled protection circuits). The array of multiple speakers makes any volume easy without overdriving, on any material.

@shadorne Bells of Ste. Anne de Beapre by Alexander Russell, The Power and the Glory, M&K RealTime, RT114.
jesusa0
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Fender Rhodes and Hammond B3 with Zu Druid IV.
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newbee
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"What you think sounds most realistic? "  Really? Nothing comes close so I really try not to think about it. To me recorded music is at best a reminder, no more.  I think audio's main weakness is its inability to  replicate large scale music in the home so I don't listen to this so much anymore or expect much when I do.

"What do you like best". Piano and acoustic guitar, on which I can enjoy the music so much its hard to pay attention to all that audio stuff. :-)

FWIW I listen thru Silverline Bolero's. They are a fairly nice speaker. 
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