Two-channel purity? (Skeptimania).

Two-channel purist microphone techniques, that is, those that minimize the amount of electrical, multi-microphone, and mixer-related diddling required to make two-channel recordings, have traditionally come in two different flavors. Some adept classical-music engineers prefer the simple, two-microphone, spaced-array technique often used by individuals like Marc Aubort in his work for Delos and Centaur. Others, like Peter McGrath in his work for Audiofon and Harmonia Mundi USA, also prefer this technique, but with the option of employing additional support microphones. A technique like this seems logically sensible, since with stereo playback the speakers are themselves in ...