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| Jay's "Ugly Truth" video Another perspective. Go to a live concert of unamplified music. For me, I want maximum clarity/detail. Only the 1st row center will do. 98% of the other seats are sorely deficient for what I want in the sonic realm. You should enjoy the live ... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... frogman, Your analogy of pointillistic artists actually makes my case, haha. The semi-random points provide lots of detail at close viewing, but they don't make much sense until you move away and then can see what the real picture is. The dista... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... Have you been to Preservation Hall in New Orleans? I was there in 2005, a few months before Hurricane Katrina. Before going, I had visions of some big concert hall, but I laughed when I saw that it was the inside of a cave with walls of rocks. ... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... A mathematical definition of detail is the sum total of information at all freq. Musically speaking, it is perception of the note fundamental with all the added harmonics, or multiples of the fundamental freq. Since further distance has the main... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... It is telling to come back to the original poster who started this thread, mikeydee. From the front row of Heinz Hall, he still was mesmerized by the acoustics and dynamics. So the front row offered so much, not just the details of the front vio... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... Interesting points about the Sibelius violin concerto. The opening minute or two is very soft and dreamy for the orchestra, with the soloist a little louder so it is still dominant. Orchestra and soloist are playing together in the appropriate b... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... You may like the sound in the balcony and from your speakers, but this is a bit of an apples/oranges comparison. Depending on the music, Telarc recordings employ a mix of close mikes and distant hall mikes to capture hall ambience. Some recordin... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... Also, do you know the 1967 Turnabout LP of the Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances, Dallas Symphony conducted by Donald Johanos? The 3rd movement highlight is the crackling brass fanfare near the end, culminating in cymbal and tympani crashes. This wa... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... frogman, Ah, now I understand you better. Your references are bass clarinet, saxes which are middle and lower midrange/midbass instruments, as opposed to the violin, which is midrange/HF. Lower freq instruments gel at greater distance, and are ... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... frogman, Violin concertos are carefully scored for orchestra realizing the inherent SPL limitations of a solo violin. For the great concertos, the orch is reduced to pianissimo when the solo violin is playing. When the violin soloist takes a br... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... Mischa Mischakoff was the most esteemed concertmaster of the 20th century. He was with the NBC Symphony under Toscanini, and I love his solos on those recordings. When he retired, he was with the Detroit Symphony. I visited him in Detroit in 19... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... You have a wealth of concert hall experience. I love the mono recordings on Mercury of Rafael Kubelik + Chicago SO in Orchestra Hall (I guess renamed Symphony Center). Have you tried a few locations there to compare the recordings with what you ... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... mahler123, Good observations. The short wavelengths of high freq (HF) mean that HF are more absorbed than lower freq (LF) at greater distance. So the tonal balance at greater distance is skewed toward LF. At close distances, the natural HF pre... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... Mahler123 is correct that violin recordings with orchestra are just about always overmiked. Unfortunately, the live reality is that the 1 violin soloist is competing with at least 20 players in a small chamber orchestra in Mozart concertos, e.g. F... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... I wonder if any of the people who disagree with my preference for close musical encounters have had enough experience comparing seats at various distances. When an event was popular, I could never get a close audience seat. From the 10th row or ... |