Pace Paul, by the time it got to the third movement of the Dvorak, I
was quite impressed. The Festival Hall is not over-endowed with
ambiance, but when I turned the back up a bit, what I heard was akin
to what I often hear in a concert hall when not too close to the
stage, as opposed to when I am conducting. That is, a somewhat
disembodied sound, with relatively little stereo information. I
really had the impression of being there. The sound was not bad for
mp3-quality, the dynamic range was quite satisfactory. I thought it
sounded a little distorted at the end of the Rachmaninov, not
overload distortion but digital grittiness. I was able to enjoy the
music, which is what it is all about, isnt it?
That said, the ability to stream four synchronised channels over the
Internet is an impressive technological step forward. Much more
polished than the BBC's stereo experiments with radio and tv channels
together in the late 50s (for which one had to re-solder the wires on
the radio Loudspeaker, if it proved to be out of phase!), or the two
stereo radio channels used very late at night in the mid 60s for
surround experiments...
There is always room for improvement!
David
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