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In Reply to: RE: Why not surround sound system? There is surround sound audio -- maybe you've heard about it? posted by Richard BassNut Greene on October 05, 2007 at 08:31:41
As the subject line says, the main room will be two channel. There are many good reasons for this.
The school has received a bequest of approximately 17,000 mint LPs. E.g., the complete L'Oiseaux-Lyre catalog on LP. Nearly every DG and DG arkiv LP from the late 1950s through the end of LPs. Many unopened.
This is a listening room in a library that will soon have a stellar classical-music collection. It is not a rec room on Fraternity Row.
I find your characterizations insulting to many college students, although I readily admit that it might apply to some students at colleges other than this one.
Some time ago, I lectured at Thomas More College on Elgar's Dream of Gerontius, and played excerpts on a Shahinian/Jeff Rowland/Sony SACD player system I brought in for the purpose. The entire student body attended, it was a mandatory Friday Night Lecture Series event. At the end of the presentation, I said that seeing as I was staying over, if any students wanted to reconvene mid-Saturday morning and listen to the whole thing and not just excerpts, I was willing. There was a show of hands, and six or eight students showed up and listened for their own edification, no course credit involved. And because I was a guest lecturer, I could not hand out Brownie points or increase anyone's grade.
While some students may fit your "profile," I can assure that based on my decades of experience, there are students who would rather listen to a succession of Bartok quartet movements played by different string quartets than hear the latest from Bruce Springsteen.
There will be a smaller room with projection and surround for opera Laserdiscs and DVDs.
There will be carrels or cubicles for headphone listening.
By the way, I am aware of surround sound. I produced an award-winning surround sound recording, and have contributed articles to Surround Pro magazine.
JM
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