Computer speaker wise, I'm definitely in the middle of the 20th century. If I want to listen to good music it's not at the computer. I know there are those who, like you, have put excellent sound equipment on their computers but I'd still bet that the typical computer user is using the small speakers in their flat screen monitor, like me. When you consider that most of the real improvement Dale has introduced in his B is in the area where the fundamental is down in the 100-Hz range it's going to take a pretty good system to show it off. dp ____________________ David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of RicB Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 11:06 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Steinway B Scale Conversion What century are YOU living in. My soundcard and speaker system plays regularly downloaded MP3 music that can easily rival quite expensive stereo equipment. Having been a sound engineer for several years in an earlier life I feel more then qualified to make that statement. Mistake me not... you cant equal a 50.000 dollar home audiophile extra fine blow your reality picture away system... but you can do eons better then you imply below. Cheers RicB RicB wrote: "Why dont you do a easy deasy quick recording and put a few samples up on the net for all to hear.... I've wondered why more dont do that given the absurdly low cost of quite good recording options available in our times.... seems like excellent marketing technique to me." Probably because everyone knows that people will listen to the recording on the 1" speakers in their computer monitor and still not have a clue what the piano really sounds like. dp ____________________ David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu
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