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From: winkg@vice.UUCP (Wink Gross)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: cd vs. bso
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Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 21:13:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 18 21:13:10 1985
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>  On the whole I do prefer CD to BSO reproduction
> techniques.  There are advantages to both of course, but in the CD's favor 
> I note the following:
> 
>       [etc.]
>
>                                   Tom Gross
>                                   Apollo Computer, Inc.
>

     You Bostonians make me sick.  You have one of the world's top
five (?) orchestras in one of the world's top three (?) concert
halls and you'd rather sit home eating TV dinners listening to your
CDs.  I'll bet you have the TV on watching the Celtics at the same
time.

     Live music does have a few advantages:

       1.  The visual impression is an important part of the
       experience.  That's why I like to sit near the front.  Not to
       mention, Ofra Harnoy makes a much bigger impression "on stage" 
       than "in speaker".

       2.  Watching the orchestra (or whatever) lets you pick up on
       "bits" in the music that might otherwise be missed.

       3.  You get to hear stuff you wouldn't dream of buying.  That
       has to be good for you.

       4.  In Boston's Symphony Hall (alas, in few others) the
       vibrations coming from the armrests through your hands and
       from the floor through the soles of your feet add an extra
       sensation you don't usually get in your home.

    On the other hand, for me, live opera is a drag.  I much prefer
opera on film, with subtitles.  The last act of most live opera is
strictly eyelid-prop time.  Especially if they've had 3 half-hour intermissions before.

    Now that everyone's heard from the Gross brothers, anybody else
care to comment?

			   Wink Gross
			   Tektronix, Inc.