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In the Thread: Better solution for being late?

Post Subject: Better solution for being late?Posted by Klausner on: 6/22/2012

First, I'm impressed someone managed to create a website of substance on such a vapid topic as high end audio..
Last night I saw the seattle symphony orchestra do berlioz damnation of faust. I was late because I stupidly didn't look at the ticket and assumed it was at 8, instead of 7:30. I've never been late to the symphony so I was kind of curious how they handle it. They had a couple tvs playing the performance inside and brought some chairs for the late people to watch. I thought, fine, its nice I can watch for a few minutes until they can find a good point to at least sneak me in to watch from the back. Wrong: I watched tv for over and hour until intermission. It wouldn't have been hard to get people in: the doors don't open right into the lobby and Berlioz certainly isn't lacking in spastic climaxes..anyways, I could have lived with it but the tv watching experience could hardly have been worse. They had us all huddled in the middle of the lobby watching this tv like we're watching a workplace training video, with the bartenders sloshing ice around drowning out the audio which..almost could not have been worse. I located the source of the offensive sound, a metal grill about 20 feet up facing straight down, like an elevator pa, and it sounded like it, concealing some kind of aluminum foil driver gasping for life. Maybe I shouldn't have any sort of expectation, but all they have to do is get the sound from the hall to the lobby: How could it be so bad? You don't need to answer.
I'm sure it was at least somewhat expensive to implement this system. They went through a lot of effort to have everything concealed, with everything wired through walls, floors, etc. Plus they had some expensive looking cables supplying video to the...tv.
Does anyone else's symphony hall torture and humiliate its latecomers? How do they deal with this?

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