Todays acoustical experts rank the Lyric as one of the best acoustical auditoriums in the world. Leo L. Beranek, John Wiley and Sons, in his book "Music, Acoustics, and Architecture," writes:

"The Lyric Theater has a clear, warm, intimate sound with good brilliance. The hall is reasonably uniform acoustically, and orchestral music played in it is adequately loud...Two Music critics who know the Lyric Theater well find the sound very clear and beautiful and at the right loudness. For opera, because of its smaller size, they believe it to be superior to Metropolitan Opera House in New York. The Lyric Theater is one of the better halls in our country. Let us hope that time will preserve it from the unceasing demand for new buildings with ever-larger seating capacities."