Recomendation for speakers BEST for Piano?

Why not get a synthesized piano and be done with it?!?! you're kidding, right?

The reason is that, unlike Ritteri's contention, even a less than perfectly miked acoustic piano, will sound better than any electric piano; assuming a real piano sound is what's wanted. Engineers know this all too well; not to mention that players usually prefer to play on the real thing.

By the way, in case anyone was not sure about this, close miking of pianos is done in the recording studio, not in the concert hall; usually.

Good listening.

Frogman...Since a real piano can be perfectly reproduced (Ritteri told me so) there should be no problem making a perfect synthesized one. Right? :)

Right :)

To get back to what Gileon said, I must agree that the Thiel CS1.5's are very enjoyable on piano. I have heard the CS1.6's, and while the focus has certainly been bumped up a notch, I wouldn't necessarily call them more musical. Of course, I did not get to A/B them directly, and it had been some time since I had heard the CS1.5's. However, with regard to larger Thiels, I own a pair of CS3.6's, and I find them to be very enjoyable on piano, with good lower register reproduction (and I am an upright and electric bass player, so I like clean, tight, accurage lows).

I must add, though, that my father-in-law has a pair of CS.5's (which I helped him pick out, thank you) that are simply amazing for the money. Sure, they are frequency limited, but match them up with a good sub or two, and they can hold their own against speakers several times their price. The greatest thing about these particular speakers is that they really got my father-in-law back into listening to, and enjoying music (mostly piano). Of course, my mother-in-law is not so thrilled, but hey, you can't please everybody.

Later, Tom.

As I was reading a review in Absolute Sound, they were mentioning that the suckout that comes from adding a subwoofer to 2 ch music playback systems and the mayhem it causes, may not make it worthwhile to add subs, unless you can have 2 (due to phasing issues), and a 4th order xover....they argue that most 2nd order xovers included in most hardware doesnt do the job at all, and they actually have changing "Q's" as you adjust the freq cutoff./

Have you guys with subs measured your curve lately?