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From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES)
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Subject: Re: Live vs. Home Audio Sound
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Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 19:00:34 EST
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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.

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