P.S. Just to offer a bit of perspective to my previous comments: I've done quit a number of recordings of violinists, pianists, and chamber groups (string quartets, piano trios, etc.) with two good (not super) quality mics and unsophisitcated electronics that resulted in recordings that - in some instances - sounded more natural to me than many commercial CDs. Yes, they were drier for the most part, but had a sense of the venue they were recorded in; something often missing in commercial CDs. And tonally they were convincing. Imaging was good, which it should be with only two mics. We may be discussing something - recorded sound - that has no real objective quality that we could all agree upon.
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