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Re: Concert Hall at home -- high frequency rolloff is a dynamic event?

It might interest you to know that the best seats are not usually considered in or near the front row and for that reason, seats reserved for professional music critics are quite a few rows back. In Carnegie hall, it is row K. You may consider the sound in the center of a concert hall muddy but in a good hall, most concertgoers don't. The inital attack of the direct field has all of the hf transients with only slightly more relative attenuation than further forward but the balance between direct and reverberant sound allows you to hear the hall much better. This makes the sound mellower and richer without it losing its clarity. This of course is a matter of personal preference but it must matter to a lot of people who kill themselves designing and tweaking concert halls and patrons willing to donate lots of money towards their construction and improvement. If it didn't matter, we'd all be just as well off at the local high school auditorium.

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