Live vs Memorex
As a longtime reader and subscriber to Stereophile, it was interesting for me to read Jim Austin’s As We See It essay in the May 2022 edition.
My partner and I booked a concert from Australia for the Musicverein in Vienna, with great anticipation of at last going to this famous concert hall. So there we were, dressed appropriately and really looking forward to a Mozart evening.
Imagine our dismay to encounter a large contingent of tourists whose only interest was to take as many photos as possible on phone or tablet all during the performance, many of them standing up to collect their photos. We were staggered that the ushers
