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Hagia Sophia At Home

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Listening to a recording of Byzantine chant the way it would have sounded there

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Hagia Sophia (consecrated 537) in Istanbul

My son Matthew is a college radio deejay and an audiophile. His big Christmas gift was a pair of audiophile speakers. I’ve never heard music from speakers like this. Yesterday I put on the recording of Cappella Romana chanting Byzantine hymns in the Hagia Sophia. Of course they weren’t in the Hagia Sophia, the g…

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