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music with clear placement of the instruments.

I love recordings of the 50'and 60'. One reason being that they had a very clear placement of the instruments in the stereo field.
That is quiet hard to find nowadays even with audiophile productions.

Sound Liaison http://www.soundliaison.com/ with their hi-res downloads are very good in that respect, very clear and defined sound stage.
Reference Recordings same kind of quality and placement,
http://www.referencerecordings.com/
but with my other favorites, ECM, Blue Coast, Linn, to name a few, it is a bit of hit and miss.
Here is a you tube link with an example of the type of placement I prefer; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u35c-p-tSqU
or this one which is a bit more extreme;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak6Ca37crr0&list=PLFDE4E422757F76BF

Suggestions please. (if possible with a link to homepage or youtube example.
milan60
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lowrider57
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I'll add to Czariveys post. In a good concert hall and on a good recording you can certainly hear and visualize that the string section forms a semicircle in front and that the woodwinds are centered behind them. You can distantly hear each section but not any one instrument. (Unless it's a solo).
At home I can visualize the orchestra.
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mapman
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More modern CD labels that tend to record simply for clear and accurate placement of instruments are Dorian and Mapleshade.

I second Low's assessment. Sometimes, under ideal circumstances at home, the bar can be pushed further to where more individual instruments in an orchestra or individual voices in a chorus can be triangulated upon and located.
milan60 OP
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hi mapman
Which Mapleshade and Dorian do you recommend?
jperry
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I think you would like this

1978 - Swing Sessions (Eiji Kitamura)
(RCA - Direct-to-Disc LP, RDCE-10)
Limited Direct To Disc edition, recorded live at Iruma City Auditorium, Saitama, Japan.
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