Over the last several years, we’ve dj’d at many wedding venues around Boston. 2011 is shaping up to be our busiest year ever, and by the end of the year, we’ll have collectively spun at over 300 Boston area wedding venues.

One of the fun things about our job is experiencing so many interesting and unique locations on a weekly basis. There are so many criteria and so many options that today’s Brides and Grooms must consider when selecting their venue. In our humble opinion, the acoustical qualities of a wedding location are by far the most important criteria that one must consider when making their decision. Shockingly, there been very few articles published comparing the acoustical characteristics of different sites.

Below is a list of the best places that an audiophile could pick for their Boston Massachusetts area wedding. The list contains our opinion of which venues are constructed in a way in which the music sounds crisp, clear, and full, without the echoing that is typical of many facilities. Naturally, we have excluded venues that have a policy of waving around decibel meters and those that require that the music be at an unacceptably low volume (that said, of course, we are always respectful of our clients preferences for sound volume—however it is actually much more common for our guests to request that we raise the volume rather than lower it).

The following list is totally subjective, so please take it with a grain of salt. That said, if the volume of the music is so low at your wedding that it makes your Grandma’s retirement home Christmas dance seem like a raging frat party in comparison, please do not say we didn’t warn you.

1) Artists For Humanity (South Boston)

2) Liberty Hotel (Boston)

3) Commander’s Mansion (Watertown)

4) Decordova Museum (Lincoln)

5) Harvard Club (Comm Ave location in Boston)

6) Larz Anderson Auto Museum (Brookline)

7) Commandant’s House (Charlestown)

8 ) Regattabar (Cambridge)

9) Radius Restaurant (Boston)

10) Veronique (Brookline)