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Passos, Rosa, and Ron Carter: Entre Amigos. Recorded in 2003; location not indicated. Engineers: Barry Wolifson and Nicholas Prout. 51+ minutes. Chesky SACD 291.
This low-pressure Brazilian music, with its American jazz instrumental underpinning, is clean, smooth, and detailed, with a fine soundstage. As usual, there is no discrete center channel, but the phantom image is tight and well focussed from the sweet spot, and even a bit away from that location if the speakers are toed in enough to deliver a good time/intensity tradeoff. The surround ambiance is subtle, but that works very well with this material. We do not want the vocals to reverberate indiscriminately.
I tried comparing the two-channel PCM tracks (with a variety of standard Yamaha DSP "jazz-club" surround manipulations) to the SACD surround tracks. The latter won every time, simply because the music is too intimate for Yamaha-style expanded hall or club ambiance to make an improvement and still ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Passos, Rosa, and Ron Carter: Entre Amigos.(Sound Recording Review)