[William Sommerwerck]

"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message ...

You should, it's a Bob Fine innovation of sorts. Command Records
sort of took the close-miking technology of pop music and applied it
to acoustic music, to make everything much bigger and closer and
to eliminate the sense of space causing everything to be happening
up close all at once. It defined the notion of "Hi-Fi" back in the sixties.

To the best of my knowledge, this is not correct.

To the average listener in 1958, "stereo" meant "separation". Enoch Light
decided to produce recordings with such extreme separation that it would be
plainly audible on fruitwood consoles where the speakers were barely 3' apart.

Having listened to some of these on good playback equipment, it appears that
he did this with a Blumlein pair, the instruments strongly divided between
left and right. He would switch one mic off in order to produce a strong sense
of the other side being the only source. On rare occasions where both mics are
on, there's a plausible sense of depth and space.