I've played in Bing quite a few times as a member of the Stanford Symphony Orchestra. My personal perspective: I've found that there's three core interesting b

I've played in Bing quite a few times as a member of the Stanford Symphony Orchestra. My personal perspective: I've found that there's three core interesting benefits/drawbacks of this hall. 1. The ability to hear individual instruments/players is remarkable. 2. Weirdly, although it's easy to pick out specific sounds, they tend to be quieter than you'd expect. Both on stage and in the audience. 3. ... EXCEPT when the full orchestra plays something loud. The hall is very easy to "overpower" (a phenomenon I'd not previously encountered). I don't have a good way to describe it, but when this happens, effect 1. and 2. go away and everything just becomes... too much.