A NY Times critic attempts to judge the acoustics of the new Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia. The verdict: Carnegie Hall is still tops. Verizon Hall has “a tendency to favor bass tones, a brass-heavy imbalance among the instruments, a sense that that sound, though present, is diffuse.” But there is still fine tuning that can be done. The hall’s canopy and 100 acoustical closets are adjustable, not to mention the orchestra itself is adjusting to the new environment. And, the critic admits, there’s a psychological difference that can’t really be quantified. But not too many people will have the chance, as he did, to hear the same exact program with the same musicians, performed on consecutive nights in the two halls. Verizon Hall will probably do just fine. Bonus: Take a peek at the construction of their immense organ which will eventually have 6,465 pipes. It is scheduled to be completed in 2005; they had the façade installed early so it would be visually ready for the opening of the hall.