[Jenn]

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"Arny Krueger" wrote:

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I'll make a nonsubstantial, non-technically knowledgeable
noncontribution.

You're good at that, Ludo. ;-)

Whenever I tried listening to eg. an orchestra on
headphones I got a feeling of claustrophobia. It sounded
to me not remotely like the true thing.

Depends a lot on the recording and the headphones. I just spent about a week
of working days over a period of two weeks, sitting in the middle of row 1,
recording choirs and bands in a number of different venues.

My recording chain was composed of a Rode NT-4 microphone, a Symmetrix SX202
mic preamp, and a Tascam CD-RW4U CD recorder. My mic placement technique was
to move the mic around, perched on the top of a tall stand (max 12 feet),
until what I heard in my Audio Technica ATH A700 headphones, sounded
substantially like the live sound, both in terms of imaging and tonal
balance.

Any interesting composers or works come to mind?