How important is it for you to attain a holographic image?

Amazing isn’t it that you heard this effect on your ’in polarity’ system. Or did you hear it on one with reverse polarity? Or did you hear it at all? Maybe my old system also had reverse polarity, ergo why this record sounded so fine, and on my present system, not so much. :-)

Re Proprius labels - I don’t own any so I don’t know. I understand that they did make a recording of some ’bar jazz’ a lot of folks like. Go figure. 

The label on which ’Depth of Image’ appears is Opus 3.

BTW for anyone interested there is a brief commentary on Opus 3 and this disc in Dagogo in 2012.

Ah, right, Opus 3 is another independent Swedish label, like Proprius. Yes, I’m aware a lot of people like Jazz at a Pawnshop, including your humble scribe, nevertheless apparently it’s in Reverse Polarity. What can I tell you? 😬 As for Opus 3 - Depth of Image, it probably sounds “depthy”-  if that’s a word - even in reverse Polarity. 😛 

Is the Opus 3 and Proprius label CDs also in reverse polarity?   I've got about a dozen of the LPs between them and their polarity sounds correct.  Please let me know if I'm wrong.  Thanks

P.S. the early stereo recordings were generally recorded with 2 or 3 mikes, especially for Mercury Living Presence recordings.  They have great holography.  

I heard through the grapevine the Mercury Living Presence CDs are in Reverse Polarity as well, maybe the records, too. Everything is relative. Very good records that are in Reverse Polarity still sound pretty darn good and have good holography. You don’t know what you’re missing until you hear them in Correct Polarity. Maybe someone can try reversing speaker connections to see if Mercury’s, Proprius, Opus 3 are actually in Reverse Polarity. Unless, of course, the system is in Reverse Polarity, as someone just suggested, which would make them all in correct Polarity. 😳 The In Phase track on test CDs and LPs such as XLO Test CD is in fact in correct Polarity.

The thing about those early recordings that no one mentions is that they were recorded WITHOUT Dolby. They also used tubes, not transistors.
I believe the implementation of Dolby was a definite factor in the deterioration of sound from the mid sixties on.