Early 20th-century hall design outperformed later modern acoustic engineering

Evidence

The three “case histories” that follow are instructive. The best of them dates back to 1900 or so; things go wrong in 1960 and 1985. — Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- An…, 2572

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: ‘When acoustic science hurt concert halls’ — how arcane understanding degraded the art a century had mastered.