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It is well known that the requirements to acoustic environment for life music and for audio installations are very different.   For life music we need much more what we would call in audio “live” acoustic setting, letting the instruments to breathe. For audio we need much more controlled environment, with much- much shorter reverberation time. What we in audio consider “too live” room would be “super dead” even for a string trio and in the environment those musicians would consider live enough for them audio out would hardly be able to operate as it will be too life for us.

I have a friend of my a few days ago playing in my listening room her viola. I was very much looking to hear it, in my old listening room I had stings playing many times. The result was pretty much what I expected: very direct sound with superb focus over distance. The listening of viola from 3 feet and from 20 feet does add some life reverberation but do not lose focus and sense of immediacy. This is not too great environment for musician to perform but it is exactly how I feel it has to be in a listening room for audio. Interesting was her reaction. She said that in my room she hears exactly what she does and it is a good place to practice.

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