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On 04/09/2014, Tom Fine wrote: > This is true. The Mercury team referred to all the 2-mic experimental > recordings as "binaural" to separate them as a class from "stereo" > 3-channel recordings. Because thrre-track tapes were lost in a handful > of cases, the "binaural" edited master was what was used for the CD. > If I remember correctly it's fewer than 5 cases, maybe only 1 or 2. > (There are other cases where the 2-track tape recorded from the live > 3-2 mix when the LP was cut was used, again because the 3-track master > was lost, only a handful of those cases too). > > I think, in the early stereo days, only Emory Cook consistently > recorded true "binaural" tapes, in other words those designed to be > listened to through headphones only. > "Srereo" is really a misnomer, as it should refer to depth (distance from the listener), not to width. The difference between a stereo photograph and a flat one is that it records distance. Regards -- Don Cox [log in to unmask]