I got a message from Scott Yee regarding my newly acquired Bose system. His principal area of interest was how the grand piano sounded. His concern centered around some phase problems he’d encountered with some of his other systems. He asked me to try several things and thought others on the zone may have the same question..

He was interested in how I had my system set at the moment. I told him I was feeding the right and left output from my Tyros into channels 1 and 2 on the Bose. He asked me to disconnect one channel and then the other to see if I heard a difference. I did this and could not hear any noticeable differences.

Here’s what I did and what I found.

First I took the touch sensitivity off so the sound would be at the same level. Then I set the channel equalizer to a flat response. The system amplifier has many different presets depending on the instrument being played. In this case I set the preset at 42 which is the setting for the Hohner Clavinet D6.

I then set the Tryos Master Volume to Max and set the Bose to 2 on a scale of +1 to +12. Each channel was disconnected at the amplifier and I listened to hear how the piano sounded at each octave.

I’m not a piano tuner but the output from the Tyros through the Bose system seemed to my ear to faithfully reproduce the percussive sounds of the piano, from the initial striking of the hammer on the strings to the tailing off of sound after the initial key strike.

After trying several pianos I tried the principal instrument in each sound group, brass, woodwinds, etc. In my humble opinion all the instruments sounded good through the system.

As I’m still learning about this new approach to amplified sound I’m sure there are many things yet to be discovered. In any case I feel it is IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER, what may sound good to me, might sound bad to someone else.

Have a great day!

rp