"Len Moskowitz" wrote in message
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Richard Crowley wrote:

IMHO, neither. No microphone of any size or price will
produce acceptable results at 50 ft indoors. Even a shotgun
mic the actual length of a real shotgun is questionable at 20
ft. Nothing you hear on radio, TV, movies, etc. was miked
that way.

The requirements for Radio/TV mic-ing is very different than for
transcription. For intelligibility, if you could understand what was
being said at the time of the recording, a binaural recording played
back over headphones will preserve that intelligibility.

Record the lecture and the concert binaurally.

True, that way you can take advantage of the magic circuitry
and "meatware" in your brain to sort out the multi-reverberant
signal. :-) However, at some point the "cocktail-party effect"
overrides everything else.