Someone’s music room was better than mine

[Kuoppis]

I was today visiting someone’s private music room to listen to music, and it was outperforming my room setup by a mile. We listened to some classical baroque music, mostly Vivaldi.

Well, it was a live performance, maybe that’s the reason. And his music room was a bit larger than mine, fitting approx. 400 people. Also, the entrance hall was probably bigger than my house. Actually, the concert was at Villa Hügel in Essen/ Germany.

https://www.villahuegel.de/en

https://www.villahuegel.de/en/virtual-tour/interior-view/upper-hall

The music room belonged to Alfried Krupp when he was alive, who was one of the wealthiest German industrialists at the beginning of the last century. Thus, I am not even embarrassed [emoji3].


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[UltraFast69]

Kuoppis

I can imagine your thinking well I would install a dedicated circuit there, speakers here and placement of my rig there


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[bart]

Kuoppis, I have family living very near Essen.
Seems like a wonderful hall for baroque music!

 

[Kuoppis]

Bart, it was indeed a superb venue for listening to Vivaldi. Pristine experience for both, the ears and the eyes.


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[GSOphile]

Room treatments?

 

[Kuoppis]

Room treatments?

In this case, room treats were canapés & champagne.

Otherwise there was wooden paneling as diffusors and decorative rugs on the walls absorbing sound, and the arched ceiling preventing hard bounce backs of echos.


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[bart]

For baroque, and classical in general, the concert hall or room musn't be too dead.
The music was not composed to be performed in overdamped spaces.

 

[Kuoppis]

Agree. The piano predecessors, Cembalo and Spinett, popular during that time, have a quite delicate and faint sound.


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