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Interesting... I wonder if my electronic piano is actually reproducing that 28Hz note through its speakers, or if it's just the harmonics.

Paula,

Do you ever plan on getting a subwoofer, center channel and surrounds in the future to go with your mains?

I doubt it very much. Don't really like too many speakers all over the place and for classical music my preference is to do well with just 2 speakers.

Paul

Interesting comments on the M3 vs. CBM-170SE:

http://boards.ign.com/dvd_home_theater_board/b5043/125881504/r126027972/

You're gonna fit right in.

I think he should get an EP400, small and explosive.

Ken,

If it's a full 88-key keyboard, it depends on how big or good the speakers are in the electronic piano. There might be some output at 28 Hz but I doubt it's audible. Sometimes with some of these very low frequencies from instruments, when you look at the spectrum analysis of the fundamental and harmonics, the actual fundamental is often at a much lower level than the harmonics. That's true of the largest pipe on some pipe organs. Although the fundamental is at 16 Hz, it's at a low level. The 2nd harmonic at 32 Hz is much louder, so that's what we hear even if the speaker doesn't begin to reproduce the 16-Hz fundamental tone. The latter is called "the phantom fundamental".

Alan

Awww, man! The "Phantom Fundamental" would have been an awesome screen name!

Or a good name for a band.