Dallas Hinton - Anton Shepelev:

> One of the best recordings I ever heard (and I don't remember any
> of the details now)

I wish you did!

> was a symphony orchestra recorded with a single microphone
> hanging centrally from the ceiling. It shouldn't have had any
> stereo effect but it certainly did!

No stereo there, but you don't need stereo to have a feeling of
space. Reverbertaion is much more important and may very well
register on a monophonic recording. The only remotely natural
stereo techniques are those employing two microphones and based on
phase difference (A-B, SASS) rather than loundness difference (X-Y).
Deplorably, very little of modern music is produced in tolerable
stereo.

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