Recomendation for speakers BEST for Piano?

Ritteri, your comments are, well, more opinion than fact until proven otherwise, so saith doubting Thomas. I would be interested in hearing more details on how you have arrived at your conclusions, these tests that you have done. I haven't heard an audio system yet properly produce all the things necessary to convey the realism of a live piano, any piano. Timbre is the first to bite the dust but Quads do come closest in my experience but lack in other areas, dynamics mostly, to be totally convincing. I sure would love to have you prove me wrong cause then I will have found my speaker!

btw, I've heard some great recordings on both vinyl and CD on modified IRS 5 and Genesis 200 system which came closer than anything in ALL areas, but maybe I was fooling myself in believing what I heard wasn't real? ;^)

Ohnwy61 maybe Eldartford is on to something here. I believe that good horns produce horn sounds closer to real horns. The piano with planers, I'm not sure about that but his case does warrant investigation. Did you know that Jud Barber of Joule Electra uses spruce in his "musicwood" amps to maybe capture the resonance of the spruce wood of real string instruments? Of course you know by now that nothing can be ruled out in audio especially coming from such a skeptic as Eldartford.

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