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In Reply to: RE: Update on accoustically enhanced concert halls posted by Amphissa on March 08, 2011 at 16:39:00
. . . possibly in your expectation that 99% of the audience would be happy to have the electronic system in place to improve the audio quality of the venue.The answer is simple: make sure the concert promoters are obliged (by city statute or whatever) to include in their advertising and publicity the acknowledgement that the electronic system is in place. My feeling is that they will lose quite a bit more than 1% of the audience. To me, it's the same sort of issue as the (non)-requirement for food companies to list GMO's (genetically modified organisms) in their products. There's tremendous opposition to any kind of requirement like this on the part of the food conglomerates, because they know that they'll lose sales if their customers have actual knowledge of what's in the food. The principle is the same for the food of the soul! :-)
Edits: 03/09/11Follow Ups:
I would not have attended, or considered attending, the VPO concerts at Zellerbach had I known they were using electronic enhancement of the live sound.
I passed on the opportunity to hear the VPO under Bernstein at Concord Pavillion in 1987, for the same reason.
I will not pay hundreds of dollars to hear a PA system, no matter how sophisticated.
"Has the virgin purity of your music been QUANTIZED??" (Richard Heyser)
. . . although, come to think of it, the last time J-Fi was in Berkeley, she played in Hertz Hall (a smaller hall, used for recitals, near the main music building, and, as far as I know, uncontaminated by acoustic virtual reality systems).
NT
David Aiken
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