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el`Ol wrote:

….I loved eastern European recordings because of their far less damped concert halls….

 el`Ol, you are most likely is a German or some kind of central European. If you so like the sound of eastern European under-damped concert halls then you need to vision US and listen the sound of American concert halls. They are dry like hell and virtually revolting. Visiting a few concert halls in differ cities if US I always, prior to the visit, heard the drooling comments about the spectacular acoustics in those concert halls. However, the actual experience the acoustics of a given concert halls I always as surprised how bad it is. Yes, each concert hall has a few very narrow “sweat spots” but even there the most of the American concert halls sound very wrong to my taste. (Sure I was not everywhere). Interesting the listening the live broadcasts from different concert halls it is also very acoustic in there (though with broadcasts there are many other variables involved).

My personal view is that the human factor is screwing up our concert halls – literally the people who do sound in our concert halls are Morons. Those Morons are trying to make the concert halls to sound in the same way how a cheap MP3 electronics sound, making sound of concert halls compressed and none-distinctive. So, it is not the problem with the halls I feel but rather with the cretins who work in the audio industry and who acoustically administer the halls and the recordings that are made in there. After that the musicians juts are trying to inmate what was “preset” and “presold” for them. The barbaric acoustical electricians keep paying their mortgages, the sound in our concert halls got ruined.

Anyhow, to whoever is interested to the subject there is a good book out there: “Concert and Opera Halls: How They Sound” by Leo Beranek .

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