Tonality is excellent with the AHB2.
You can hear three distinct depths. There is the main orchestra and soloist at the first level. Then there is a small group of strings at the next level- maybe 20-30 feet back. The echo chamber instruments were placed at the third level WAY in the back of the church (which has a lot of reverberant energy). The effect is really interesting, and the engineers captured it very well. You hear the main orchestra and when they are silent or only the violin soloist is playing, you sometimes here this island of strings much further back at the second level. And when Vivaldi whats the full echo, you hear the third layer very far away. Subjectively it sound like they are almost one hundred feet back. They may well have been...
Yesterday I tried to hear
depth and
sound plans.
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Die Stereo Höertest - LP Volume II (2015), Vinyl x2, in-akustik, Germany
Die Stereo Hortest LP Volume II (Vinyl, LP, Sampler, Stereo) | Discogs
DR Peak RMS Filename
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DR13 -0.99 dB -17.20 dB A1 Aram Khatchaturian - Masquerade Suite - Galop
DR12 -2.22 dB -18.98 dB A2 Antonio Forcione, Sabina Sciubba - Visions
DR14 -1.26 dB -17.90 dB A3 Doug MacLeod - Rosa Lee
DR11 -1.09 dB -16.00 dB A4 Carolin No - Still Waters Run Deep
DR18 -0.60 dB -23.44 dB B1 Gregorio Paniagua, Atrium Musicae De Madrid - Principalis. Fermescens-Indica exacta
DR14 -0.42 dB -17.78 dB B2 CC Coletti - Whole Lotta Love
DR12 -1.24 dB -16.74 dB B3 Blues Company - If I Only Could
DR15 -3.40 dB -20.66 dB C1 Hanne Boel - Mad World
DR15 -0.52 dB -17.41 dB C2 Conga - Hands On Strings
DR13 -0.78 dB -16.52 dB C3 Lyn Stanley - A Summer Place
DR12 -0.22 dB -16.75 dB C4 Felix Hell - Prelude On B-A-C-H
DR12 -0.83 dB -14.99 dB C5 Wolfgang Bernreuther - For Ole
DR10 -1.02 dB -13.23 dB D1 Otis Taylor - If They Wore Blue
DR12 -0.65 dB -14.68 dB D2 Diana Panton - So Nice
DR13 -0.44 dB -20.17 dB D3 Maurice Ravel - Alborada Del Gracioso
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Number of files: 15
Official DR value:
DR13
Depth: yes, near and far field. I would have liked more depth.
Sound plans: I was unable in either of the two situations.