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In Reply to: RE: Confused posted by ahendler on November 11, 2014 at 22:01:48
. . . I feel that he does have his moments sometimes - principally on a couple of tracks from his "Liszt - My Piano Hero" album.
Regarding "liking what you previously were not so impressed by", this has happened to me too, and I find that a very important factor in the overall impression that a recording makes is the volume at which you're listening. For me, every recording has an ideal volume which shows off the engineering and performance to their best advantage. One example I can remember was the Johanos/Dallas recording of Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances. For years I couldn't understand the mystique that this recording had in audiophile circles - to me, it sounded dull and dry. However, one day, I upped the volume enough so that the recording blossomed out, I could hear the reverberation, and I finally knew what people were talking about. I had a similar experience with the Haitink / LSO Live SACD set of the Beethoven Symphonies: once I found the right volume (which is not always louder BTW), these recordings impressed me much more!
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I have on several occasions attended multiple performances of the same concert from different seats and it has a huge impact
Edits: 11/12/14
. . . it should make a general difference: sitting closer (at an orchestral concert) I become more aware of the high frequencies and the articulation of the instruments (bowing, etc.), and the textures generally become clearer. That's got to influence one's perception of the performance. But the reason that it's difficult to tell for sure HOW MUCH it influences my perceptions is that when I'm sitting in different locations in the hall, I'm at different concerts - IOW, I'm not able to change seats in the middle of a performance and compare. But to answer your question, I'm sure one's seating location must make a difference as far as the perception of the performance goes.
For the last 5 years I have been attending the San Antonio Symphony at the old large Majestic theater. My seats were in the 5th row center. They have moved to a brand new concert hall called the Tobin Center. I am sitting in the exact same location yet the sound is totally different even though I am pretty close to the orchestra. Much greater reverberation and deeper bass response. A very warm romantic sound yet with plenty of detail. My past experiences with Orchestra hall in Chicago is the sound was vastly different depending where you sat. The first two rows of the lower balcony were the choice seats in that hall.
Alan
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