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Recomend Some Albums Recorded with True Imaging.

I am looking for some recommendations of some albums recorded for true imaging.  By that I mean a group of people playing acoustic instruments recorded old school with just two microphones.    Not songs mixed from multiple tracks and balanced to give the impression they are playing in the center.    I have recently been relistening to the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Will the Circle be Unbroken".   This is a raw recording where they found the best bluegrass and early county artists,  sat them down in a studio,   took one take,  and (probably) recording them with just 2 microphones for stereo.  No mixing and minimal processing.  What they played in the room is exactly what you hear.   The results for imaging is all I can say is wow.   Even with a half decent system you can close your eyes and tell where ever instrument is playing from and where they are standing.   And it is the first time I finally understood the phrase " the speakers disappear".

While my main preference is 70's progressive rock I don't think I will find it there.    But Jazz,  Bluegrass, Blues or Classical would be good.  Any suggestions.
delkal
delkal OP
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While I am always open to finding excellent recordings for the purpose of this thread lets stick to recorded in one take and minimally mixed.  If not things get too confusing.

I do like progressive music but I just mentioned it as an example of the type of music that is not recorded correctly (for this thread).  That is why I mentioned Jazz, Bluegrass, Blues or Classical. Narrowing it down more I will say Jazz and Classical.  There should be a lot of old school recordings of these.    Its just a matter of finding the good ones. 


There have been some good recommendation so far and I have a couple of new albums coming.  But finding the exact release mentioned, having it in stock and making sure it is not a CD-R copy is the challenging part.
johnto
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Lou Reed Street Hassle recorded in binaural stereo.
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tomic601
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To help the OP, let’s start putting disc # behind our recommendations 
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tomic601
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Also Discogs is IMO a great place to find this stuff
jamesclarke
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OK

RCA LSP 2527 N2PY 1268

This is the 1962 stereo release of Sonny Rollins - “The Bridge”.  It was also issued in Mono but I don’t know what that sounds like.  There are lots of Jazz Buffs around here who can probably tell you a lot more than I know about the production of this record but it may be what you’re after.  It’s just sax, bass, and drums, and some guitar in a room.  I don’t know for sure how it was miked but it sounds very real, very natural.  I don’t have another album that sounds as real in tone, space, and dimension as this one.  I mean, it plays like it’s 3 (or 4) fantastic musicians in my living room - each one in their own specific actual life size holographic space.  It’s like the players are set up in my room.  You can tell where each player was located left to right and the interaction/reverberation/overlap of instruments sounds very realistic.  It this was done by mixing separate tapes I’d be very surprised.  

I love this whole record.  Both music and SQ.  But, If you want to just sample it before purchase it it’s on the streaming services.  You might just try the wonderful track “God Bless the Child”.  It’s on compilations too including the essential sonny Rollins RCA recordings and some others.  

I know this album has been remastered at least a couple of times   Might be interesting to compare  

I’ll try to think of some others not mentioned yet.  


Happy listening. 






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