Recomendation for speakers BEST for Piano?

Khrys, you obviously do not understand. ;-)

A recording with a 20hz tone? Dr. Dre's Chronic Album for one. There are alot of popular rap albums with loads of synthesized bass notes that go well below 40hz, too many to list.

311's Music album is another great example. Its loaded with alot of harmonic sweeps from 20-40hz too that blend with the bass guitarists melodies.

Ritteri...I'm glad that you endorse boosting 20-80 Hz by several dB, because that is what I usually do after geting the system flat. But I always felt guilty about it...like eating too much ice cream. I also use the tweeter padding resistors with my Maggies, to roll off the high end, and that gets flac also.

Organ music and bass drums do get down to the 20Hz range, no argument about that. It's just that organs and bass drums are a tiny fraction of the music I listen to. I don't do rock/pop, but I do know that it always sounds like it has a lot of bass content. However, this music is customarily presented via ProSound loudspeakers, that do not claim response below 30 Hz.

I have a CD of a German "um-pa" band with many tubas. When I find that disk I will make a point of checking for SW activity. I also have an LP of the Dukes of Dixieland which sounds as of it has a lot of bass, but to my surprise it really is not that low in frequency.

Quote by Eldertford:

"Ritteri...I'm glad that you endorse boosting 20-80 Hz by several dB"

Was that a sarcastic remark? =O

Do I ever deserve a sarcastic remark? =) lol!

Its true, a naturally sounding "flat" response to our ears looks like a gently rolling slope downward from 20hz to 20khz. Our ears are least sensitive to the bottom 2 octaves and most sensitive to the highest 2 octaves.

Ritteri, thanks for your suggestions regarding recordings with ultra-low frequency tones. I will truly check them out. My experience has been that most redbook CDs trying to articulate low bass simply double the 40 Hz tone (+3-4dB) and allow room resonance to do the rest. It is well known that you do not have to produce the fundamental tone (spectral pitch) in order to "hear" it (virtual pitch). In fact the difference between spectral and virtual pitch may explain why we naturally want to boost the bass and attenuate the treble in order to obtain "full-range". A pure spectral 20 Hz tone is extremely hard to produce acoustically (think 32 foot diapason) and though fairly easy to synthesize electronically even more rarely recorded as such. Why bother when a 40 Hz tone overloaded into a boosted subwoofer "sounds" like the real thing?