Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!houxm!hound!rfg From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) Newsgroups: net.audio,net.music.classical Subject: Re: Live vs. Home Audio Sound Message-ID: <972@hound.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 19:00:34 EST Article-I.D.: hound.972 Posted: Sun Mar 3 19:00:34 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 20:30:54 EST References: <813@oliven.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.audio:4271 net.music.classical:948 [] Bravo! Right on! I also find live performances ($50 seats at the met,Grand Tier) subject to loss of musical information by dropping into the noise level. Except for that the performances frequently approach and even sometimes exceed the musical enjoyment of a good CD. Now, the $35 orchestra seats of last month (Right side, Lohengrin) suffered from beaming of reflections off the right wall in the treble. Moving your head an inch or so moved you in and out of the beam lobes - talk of standing waves in living rooms, who would have thunk to find worse in the met. All right, all right. I'll admit that in general the live performance still has something going for it (besudes visual values) that home audio doesn't, but, at a higher price than the CD version for the real thing, the differences are getting smaller and smaller. -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg