Steinway B Scale Conversion

[David Porritt]

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

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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
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    David M. Porritt, RPT
    dporritt at smu.edu