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I just used my CK-40 for a choral concert last night. It was at the quarter-sticked open lid of the piano. When there was an accompanist, it captured an amazing-- thrilling!-- extremely detailed and revealing version of what the player was doing. For the groups that had no accompanist, I cranked the gain and got a beautiful rendition of the chorus on the risers.
These days it's always set at 90 degrees, both caps cardioid, but once on a whim I set both caps omni and stuck it right in under the fully-sticked lid of a piano, as a gruelling acid test or something, and it sounded great, rich and blooming and washy like enveloping you in that cuddly, dense, magical piano sound.
There's just something about two-point recordings, even in omni from the same point, that sounds realer and truer than the same thing from one mic.
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