rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (06/05/85)
[] While you are at it, go to several concert halls and listen to several orchestras under several conductors. Be sure to sit in several different locations in each hall. Of, course, only go to <good> halls, sit in <good> seats and listen to <good > orchestras. The point of this exercise is to teach you the absolutely incredible range of sound experiences that people call "concert hall." You will then begin (just begin) to develop a feeling for what you are going to be hearing in reproduced sound. Many years ago I read an article, it may have been by an early Julian Hirsch, who observed that many of the arguments of hi-fi enthusiasts boiled down to a difference in where you liked to sit in the concert hall. He had observed that different brands of speakers tended to locate you differently in the house. I may have forgotten the details, but as I recall he said he thought Altec put you in the front row of the balcony, AR in the back of the hall downstairs, and JBL right in the middle of the orchestra. Whether I remember right or not is beside the point. The point is that that misbegotten junk pile over in Smith's house does happen to sound exactly like seat K122 in the Perth Opera House,(but only if you play DGG records) :-). experience. -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg