Best Recordings for Soundstage and Imaging?

[mikejennens]

Any suggestions for recordings that present great soundstage and imaging? Realizing it's not all about the recording, it's still a good place to start.
Mike

 

[Richidoo]

Monaural recordings image best! Seriously, I test imaging with old jazz mono recordings, they can reveal a lot when setting up speakers.

For stereo soudstaging, Reference Recordings are great, especially if you like classical. Respighi Pines of Rome is great, it won a grammy for best classical recording a decade ago. Provides a very large, wide, deep and tall soundstage. Strong LF ambience cues, if the playback has low distortion bass (large drivers.)

 

[mikejennens]

Monaural recordings image best! Seriously, I test imaging with old jazz mono recordings, they can reveal a lot when setting up speakers.

For stereo soudstaging, Reference Recordings are great, especially if you like classical. Respighi Pines of Rome is great, it won a grammy for best classical recording a decade ago. Provides a very large, wide, deep and tall soundstage. Strong LF ambience cues, if the playback has low distortion bass (large drivers.)

Thanks!

 

[GuudTunes]

Opus 2 Test CD (album if it can be found?)

 

[TNT]

Mahler: Symphony No 4 In G / Maazel, Battle, Vienna Po | ArkivMusic
Gustav Mahler, Lorin Maazel, Wiener Philharmoniker, Kathleen Battle - Symphony No. 4 in G Major - Amazon.com Music

2 mic AB recording by Faulkner.

Music aint bad either

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[SY]

Anything by John Eargle.

 

[cumbb]

Your saddest, baddest, ugliest recordings,-! A clean playing combi does resolut, does play finely, authentically, holographically.
Any reference recordings are for rumbling, roaring combis.
My mind.-)