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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: Remedies the Beauty
Post Subject: Maybe not "right" but...Posted by rowuk on: 11/28/2021
My playback is specifically for ME. I am not so much interested in hearing if the trumpet player farts, but am very interested in the orchestral fabric and how players move their instruments in and out of that. Row 15, refers to my favorite row at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt. I am far enough away that I do not have to turn my head to focus any of the sound events from the stage. At this position, I have a balanced experience for direct vs room sound. Power is transferred to my body and ears in a "natural" way. At that seat, the articulation and expression is natural and as complex as it needs to be to get "IT".
Row 15 at home means that essentially regardless of the recording, the audio event is such that I do not "need" an imaging artifact to impress me. Power (< 250 Hz) is transferred naturally, and clarity is such that it melds with my reading of the score (either in my head or on paper). It is NOT a conductors view. This most certainly is a distortion of the recorded reality (that has all of the microphones closer than "row 15") but one that I have found answers for.
In any case, right or wrong, the "faults" in my playback are well known to me and not yet in the way.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site