World's largest piano with a five meter long string.
https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/pictures/worlds-biggest-grand-piano-ventspils-latvia/
https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/pictures/worlds-biggest-grand-piano-ventspils-latvia/
A full range speaker?
World's largest piano with a five meter long string. https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/pictures/worlds-biggest-grand-piano-ventspils-latvia/ |
@motzartfan I would have one or the other, not both woofers. Speakers are energy conversion devices, to get lower bass with a smaller diaphragm it has to travel a greater distance, and that can only be tamed with a driver like GR Researches 12” speaker plate amp combos that are servo controlled. I'd prefer to have a 15” that travel such a short distance, about ⅓, to create the same note at a given SPL, and so don’t need the servo. The Golden Days of audio tell us that if you use an the exponential horn as a 2-D go-by diagram, you can set your tweeter at the throat, select your woofer size, and then use the… Oh, what the hell was I talking about anyway?! 😉 |
to the OP i can get you the wav files, super happy guy in Michigan with 5a just used them. The Vandy test tone disc includes scaling acoustic bass w finger, string and body noise ( recorded at Ocean Way ) Vandersteen drivers / cast baskets and motors in many cases ( almost all ) are made by scanspeak, for decades. the 12” push pull honeycomb aluminum sub is unique to the 5 and 7. Carbon diaphragms are all made in house in good ole California. Finally, time and phase don’t have to be screwed up….. speakers currently in residence, studio, or mobile recording rack ( this last bit a hint about the journey you are rightminded about embarking on ) : Vandersteen, Thiel, Quad, Apogee, Klipsch, Totem, Bryston, Stax, and a beater but heavily modified pair of Dynaco A-25. |
witness the acoustic event, capture event, including the ability to play back event in real time in the original reverberant space ( but with a heavy bias to nearfield monitoring, use a Stax grade or better headphone to also monitor, capture using a single stereo pair, failing that buy or build a small mixer ( this can make microphones seem cheap ), acquire a small collection of great microphones, piano lends itself well to a combi stereo…$2-3 k ( see your above posting about energy conversation device aka transducer ), buy or build great microphone preamps, cables…to Mogami or not ?, Then the fun begins…Digital , Tape…or both.. |