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RE: Agree to disagree.

The 'rooms' at the Waldorf=Astoria in many cases were made of movable and padded partitions. From an acoustics perspective, that's an almost perfect lose-lose (big, wobbly boomy bass, with walls that act as inconsistent mid/high absorbers). Some were making the best of a bad job with a lot of room treatment, experimenting with equipment/listener positioning, even making careful choices of music used.

This almost always happens at the first year in a new venue (even if the new venue isn't that new, and has been used for audio shows a decade or more ago). Even if you have visited the rooms, they are unknown properties until you have set up in them. Next year, you have a better understanding of the room and know what best suits it.

Interestingly, the rooms that consistently get high praise used speakers not renown for their bass response. In other words, the best way of dealing with room nodes is not to trigger them!
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Editor, Hi-Fi Plus magazine, Lun-duhnn, Ingerland, innit


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