Recomendation for speakers BEST for Piano?

Another theory of why your speakers reproduce "solo violin" better than most megabuck systems? MG 1.6's arent world beater speakers(or considered "megabuck speakers") to begin with so thats kind of a poor comparison. And a different kind of speaker altogether.

Care to define "most megabuck" systems?

Care to define "sound better"?

Thats a pretty bold statement to make. Especially of DM550's which arent known to be top tier speakers(or even top tier B&W products)so this is a bit opinionated. As I could easily state that Sonus Faber Concertos are best sounding for solo violins.Violins arent even considered hard sounds to reproduce as they have minimal harmonics and overtones. But I have heard many times people state that bright sounding speakers(or speakers that arent full range) accentuate violins since most of the tones are in the midrange and extend upward. But some of the older Strats and other vintage model violins need a full range speaker to reproduce rich harmonics that have deep full bodied sound since the violins own "personality" is developed slowly over time. Alot of violins that are made by hand sound very sterile for the first 5-10 years and mature as they age. To me a sterile sounding violin is not something I want to hear. BTW Im not dissing your speakers above. Ive heard em, they are nice sounding units when set up correctly as most B&W products are.

Mixing driver materials doesnt mean that they cant convey an excellent near perfect sonic reproduction. Knowing material resonations and resonation points along with crossover designs help to isolate anomalies. Again part of a competent speaker design. B&W uses alot of different composite materials(as do alot of mfgs), and they are integrated very well in their design specifications.

Ritteri..Why don't you read other people's comments before sounding off? Perhaps you did, and just cannot understand them. For example: the B&W 550 are not claimed to be great speakers, just damn good at violins. The reason I mention this is because it is so very surprising.

Since you are a cones-in-boxes guy you evidently feel it necessary to disparage the MG1.6. I think that Maggies, at every price point, can speak for themselves.

Yes I am a "cones in box" guy, but I also own a pair of ML Prodigy speakers too.

Maybe you need to read my comments again?

Ill repeat what I stated up top again:Pretty much any speaker can sound good reproducing a solo Violin since its not a difficult sound to reproduce and the majority of its audible spectrum lies in the midrange and above. So why you are surprised beats me. The DM 550 as I also stated(even though its not cutting edge transducer technology)above is a good solid sounding speaker. WHy the surprise?

As for me disparaging Maggies(Or Apogees or ML or whatever), I did no such thing. Planar/ribbons have their place and their positive traits no doubt. If they didnt I wouldnt own a pair myself.

Elhartford you may have misread my skeptic remark. I hold skeptics in very high regard. It is healthy to be skeptical. The point I was making is that if you could come to such a conclusion I would imagine (and you have confirmed) you have some basis for it before you would post something so seemingly off the wall leaving yourself open to scrutiny.

Back to skeptics, I am VERY skeptical of Riteri's general remarks concerning reproduction of instruments by audio system regardless of the design. A reasonable reproduction is not the same as being able to discern between reproduced and real. And now the violin. No Riteri, I don't play violin but have played in an orchestra in my younger days and still attend concerts regularly and know for a fact that I haven't heard a system reproduce the tones of real instruments accurately, as real. I do have a piano in the house and on a direct AB comparison with all things being equal I'll bet a 10 year old could hear the difference, same with the violin. Next you're going to tell us that there are audio systems that can produce massed strings realistically? Have you actually done direct tests or is this just a hunch based on what you hear? LOL