[Geoff]

Scott Dorsey wrote:
William Sommerwerck wrote:
You're hearing what is basically a crude "amateur" on-location
recording. Such recordings almost always have more-natural,
more-realistic sound that studio recordings. This was true for
decades of delayed concert broadcasts, and is still true for, say,
the Met broadcasts (qa).

I would tend to agree, but sadly not in the case of the Met
broadcasts which have been severely overmiked for the last few years.

Listen to some of the Met broadcasts from the sixties and they sound
a lot more realistic than the current ones. Then again, if you
listen to them
on a 4x6 inch AM radio speaker they might not be as intelligible.
It's sort of ironic that as the possible quality of playback has
improved, there is more of an attempt to compensate for poor quality
playback.

Sure, and that radio is not unique in that !

geoff