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| 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... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... juanmanuelfangioli, One of my favorite recordings is Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances, Dallas Symphony, conducted by Donald Johanos, 1967. The companion recording of Copland works (Rodeo, Fanfare for the common man) shares the same recording techni... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... mahler123, The best listening position is the conductor's head on the podium. He is closest to all the instruments and gets maximum detail. He hears the best balance, so all the instruments are maximally revealed. All instruments are more or l... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... Petaluman, You said, "It's not about the sound." Half true. The live experience combines sound and visuals. But the next time you attend a live concert, close your eyes and listen honestly to the sound. The sound is the main subject of this d... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... The best position in the hall for any ensemble is the conductor on the podium, front stage center. That is, for maximum detail which is the basis of tone and other characteristics of music. As an experienced performer in orchestra, chamber group... | |
| Does anyone know where this J. Gordon Holt comes from? Idiotic statement of Jim Austin--".....an album shouldn't sound like live music unless it was recorded to sound like that." Why are albums recorded NOT to sound like live music? Deliberate distortion like this, antithetical to the live experien... | |
| Does anyone know where this J. Gordon Holt comes from? Gordon and Harry both emphasized that the supreme goal of a high quality audio system is high fidelity to real sounds in a real space. Nowadays, the lesser goal of merely what sounds good is pursued. The latter goal merely relegates such an audi... | |
| Experiences with the Degritter RCM clear thinker, The purpose of record cleaning is to purify the sound. Before there is obvious noise, there may be enough distortion in the tone quality, space, etc. With amplifiers there is no obvious noise, but euphonic amps distort the tone i... |