[Scott[_6_]]

On Sunday, August 4, 2013 6:16:57 AM UTC-7, Audio_Empire wrote:
On Saturday, August 3, 2013 6:52:42 AM UTC-7, Robert Peirce wrote:

In article ,
Audio_Empire wrote:

For instance, you can't use pop/rock to test for image
specificity, because being multitrack and multi-miked with all instruments

I'm told you can hear that on a good system. I don't listen critically
enough to know for sure.

I'd say that you CAN'T hear that because it doesn't exist with
pan-potted positioning of instruments. Of course, if the rock
producer specifies an overall stereo pair of mikes in addition to
the multi-mike, multi-channel-mono practices that are the norm, then
you might hear it. But I don't know of any rock recordings that were
recorded that way. Does anyone else know? I would love to find out.

You can say it but it isn't true. I have many pop/rock albums that
offer stunningly vivid imaging with sound stages that extend well past
the speakers and offer loads of depth as well as width and give the
instruments a tremendous sense of size and palpability. So you CAN
hear that with the right pop/rock recordings.

When you say you don't know of any rock recordings that use stereo
pairs of microphones I just have to ask, what pop/rock recordings are
you so familiar with that you can tell us just how they were recorded?