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Maximum slew rate typically found in music/voice
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CatalinaWOW:
I think the where you are sitting is being either over thought, or strong evidence that more reproductive precision is required.  One on end of the argument, any seat is fine as long as you would be happy with that seat in a live performance.  On the other hand, if you want recordings from a bunch of different locations so you can make a seat selection for your next live performance the answer gets complicated.
TimFox:
Aficionados of different concert halls know where the best seats are for serious listening.
In some opera houses, the music lovers know about cheap seats with lousy sight lines but good acoustics.
I was told about these seats at the Bayerische Staatsoper, but I only got there once (an excellent seat 1/3 back in the orchestra, dead center left-right).
Flying back from Japan on a long flight, I had an interesting chat with a professional acoustics engineer who had carefully surveyed several European halls for this purpose.
Unfortunately, we could not compare notes about my home city (Chicago), where I prefer the front of the first balcony at Orchestra Hall.
CatalinaWOW:
While those aficionado approved seats are undoubtedly good I would be willing to bet that folks with preferences for subsections of the music, brass or woodwinds as examples, have preferences that are subsets of these, or even outside of them.
nctnico:

--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on September 22, 2023, 02:35:17 pm ---I think the where you are sitting is being either over thought, or strong evidence that more reproductive precision is required.  One on end of the argument, any seat is fine as long as you would be happy with that seat in a live performance.

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Most halls will have reflections that cause peaks & valleys for certain frequencies. This makes recording using an artificial head almost a fruitless exersize. One of my mentors who previously had worked at the R&D department for an electronic organ manufacturer, had an interesting story about this subject. At some point they wanted to build a digital church organ. So they took a good quality recorder and made recordings of a real church organ. They reproduced the waveforms in great detail but the organ they build sounded like crap. After some head scratching they decided to go recording again but this time at different positions. And with those recordings, they managed to design an electronic church organ that sounded like an actual church organ.
tggzzz:

--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on September 22, 2023, 02:35:17 pm ---I think the where you are sitting is being either over thought, or strong evidence that more reproductive precision is required.  One on end of the argument, any seat is fine as long as you would be happy with that seat in a live performance.  On the other hand, if you want recordings from a bunch of different locations so you can make a seat selection for your next live performance the answer gets complicated.

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It is an accuracy vs precision issue.

I am noting that accuracy in a concert recording is an improper thought, but precision could be attained. Audiophools witter on about accuracy, whereas you have sensibly noted that precision could be used to choose a seat. (Or conversely that the sound engineer chooses the seat for you).

Yes, I am well aware that sometimes test equipment's precision is more important than its accuracy. One company I worked at produced an attenuation meter with a 0.001dB resolution but only a 0.1dB accuracy.


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