My audiophile take on the symphony last night.

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Difficult to comment unless I was there siting near you. I would think a
rolled off high end would be a problem with your seats or the hall. Hard to
imagine they all had instruments that were rolled off.

Soundstage is a different issue. Unless the hall completely scrambles the
sound how can you not have a soundstage? The violins are up front, the
basses are far right, percussion back left, horns in the back, etc. The
instruments are where they are? ........ Bad hall ?.?.?

However, I did attend our local symphony last night (Evansville IN) with
good seats and it was sonically excellent.

So I'll take this opportunity to encourage you to support your local
symphony.

Herman,

It was my first time and next time we are going to get floor seats closer to the orchestra.

As far as soundstage-I always get the perfect seat at home!

Bizango1,

I expect the symphonic sensory experience one has from the conductor's podium will be different than being 10-12 rows back, dead center.

What we experience vis-a-vis our audio system/room is the reproduction of recorded sound...a sound that may be multi-tracked, equalized, compressed, mixed, mastered, and ultimately...may sound "better" than the de facto event.

Best regards,
Sam

I never had hifi system better then live event......lucky you!