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Beauty is Where We Prefer to Sit.

Where do you sit in the concert hall? In the first few rows (not far from where the recording mikes tend to sit), where the attacks on instruments are strikingly clear, where the blending of instruments has not yet really taken place, where concert hall resonances have not yet had their effect, and where the air and hall have not yet begun to attenuate the treble? Halfway back, where attacks sound less assertive, individual instrumental voices have blended, and the room's boundaries have begun to play their filling and warming roll? Or toward the rear, where the hall and resonance and the audience itself have warmed and mellowed the whole? We call upfront "accurate;" halfway back "neutral" or "balanced" or "natural;" and all the way back mellow and/or romantic. Beauty is where we prefer to sit.

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