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| 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 ... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... Composers (and performing musicians) both create their art for all types of listeners with different musical knowledge and different seating preferences. Music is a business which needs to serve as many customers (listeners, performers, concert h... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... frogman, Good points for discussion on several levels. As musicians, we strive to blend our sounds and play together. For orchestral playing, a 1st violin section in a large orchestra has 16 violinists who are told by the conductor to suppress ... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... I remember the good sounding Koss 1A electrostatic speaker. It was a large panel stat, but it included a dynamic tweeter. At the time, I wondered why a dynamic tweeter was used, when everyone knows that electrostatic membranes are better than dy... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... fleschler, The most accurate and natural speaker is plasma. Totally massless, small driver the size of a tweeter, very efficient. Unfortunately, they are dangerous for ozone and other noxious gases, fire hazard from the burning flame from high vo... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... frogman,, You're right that instrumental sounds have different colors, textures, tonal balance at close vs further distance. But look into the mind of the composer. He/she thinks of a melody in the mind, tries it on the piano, then writes it do... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... terraplane8bob, Another point to consider. Trumpets project the most of all the brass. They project in a very directional manner, maximum straight to the audience. The conductor may be off axis and may not get the full beamy energy of the trum... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... vitussl101, As you said, "When we heard that Gidon Kremer was performing at Orchestra Hall we made a last minute dash to get seats and we did; front row, just left of the center seat. Can't count all the performances I've seen there but it was ... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... The violin and accordion at an intimate place in Budapest. That's a better place to hear these instruments than a prestigious concert hall. I had a similar experience at Preservation Hall in New Orleans in 2005. P Hall was a small cave of a roo... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... fleschler and terraplane8bob, I love the sound of my violin under my ear (fortunately I play well) which I admit isn't applicable to most listeners. There is a vast difference between inches away and even only a few feet away. I used to go to m... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... fleschler, I agree with nearly everything you said, but differ only about very close rows. Like you, as a performer, there is nothing like stage sound for detail, direct immediacy. Using that criteria, only the 1st row is the next best thing to... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... drbarney1, right. Low mass planar drivers. like Magnepans are uncolored compared to expensive dynamic speakers. Dynamic speakers can play louder than Maggies, however their coloration and veiling at 100 dB aren't worth listening even below 80 dB... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... terraplane8bob, See if you can find the Absolute Sound article on top 10 concert halls, about 1985. Earlier I wrote about how the 25th row of the Musikverein (#1) was pure reverberant muddy garbage, but the 5th row was quite good. I never got t... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... mahler123, You're right. I have known a few professional musicians who aren't interested in an audiophile home system. They get plenty of exposure to live natural sound in their work, so for recreation they are content with run of the mill soun... |