In article ,
(Don Pearce) writes:

On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 19:15:11 +0000, Mike Fleming
wrote:

In article , "Dave Plowman (News)"
writes:

If you were to do a rule of thumb for a classical recording with no chance
to experiment or rehearse in the venue, you'd simply sling a stereo pair
above the conductor. Since he is the one who 'engineers' the balance of
the orchestra. But that's not a place any member of the audience can hear
the work from.

"People make an awful lot of fuss, anyway, about the quality of the
sound they listen to. Have you noticed; they spend all that time
trying to get the exact effect of an orchestra actually playing in
their sitting room. Personally, I can't think of anything I should
hate more than an orchestra actually playing in my sitting room."

You have this backwards. The only way to have the orchestra playing in
your sitting room is with an anechoic recording - nasty sounding
things. What they are trying to do is expand the walls of the sitting
room to match the concert hall by reproducing the acoustics of the
hall. Some of the Dolby D coverage from the RHA was not half bad at
that.

Perhaps I should include this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_DptPvj7ts

And I don't think my sitting room is big enough for an orchestra to
play in it. Expanding the walls to match the concert hall would run
into issues with planning permission, and next door's side wall.

--
Mike Fleming