<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> I listen more or less like you do. But I have a stop watch that I dont look at..  just press at start and when I think its stopped.. I do 5 checks on each note and take the average. I generally am looking at C6, A6, F7, and C8. If those notes give 12, 6, 3, 1.5  seconds respectively.. the rest of the piano has got to be a real screwball to not sound decent enough. Now of course things can be << better >> then the above numbers. But I have yet to run into anyone who had serious problems with a piano that comes out at least that well. Once in a while you run across an exceptionally exceptional instrument. If the compressionists REALLY want to convince the world of their case... then perhaps they might find demonstrating they can consistantly provide this, whilst maintaining that full bodied aroma. I'm all for em when it comes down to it.  But its a gonna be a hard road at best. RicB Farrell wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Please describe, to the best of your (anyone out there) ability, at what point do you stop the stopwatch when quantifying sustain duration. I usually time it until just at the end of the point where I can still just barely hear anything that I can identify is still that note ringing - truly a judgement call. Is there any other considerations that some use - or are we all shooting at pretty much the same target? Terry Farrell   <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives"></a> </blockquote> -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <A HREF="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A> <A HREF="http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html">http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html</A>  </html>