Back to recommended recordings...
First, an absolute classic: Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. This must be one of the first true stereo recordings (I understand it was originally released both in mono and stereo in 1959), and I that it has had two remastering. I've tried both with Tidal, and probably I prefer the first remaster. Anyway.. it sounds amazing! You can almost touch the musicians, specially Morello on drums (although a bit weirdly at left, way past the loudspeaker -you can eventually control this in BACCH if you want-) and Desmond on saxophone, completely tactile. Great demo material... everyone that loves jazz must have listened this countless times... Now you can hear it again as a completely new material. The way, for example, you hear the resonance of drums is... just amazing. Turn off the filter and everything just collapses. Back to normal stereo reproduction pretending to mimic reality ... the one that you heard seconds ago.
Second: I've found a binaural sampler by Chesky Records, "Dr Chesky's Sensational, Fantastic, and Simply Amazing Binaural Sound". Too much hype in the title? well, no... Hair-raising stuff for most of the 26 tracks it contains. The Toccata and Fugue for Organ by Bach recorded in a large church ... literally made the skin hair of my wife to stand up. I asked her if she wanted me to bypass the filter to appreciate the difference, and she shout me "NO!!! don't touch it, this is UNBELIEVABLE!".
Btw, all of that with a pair of small Maggies .7 (my 1.7i's and REL sw went to my new home far away), in a large space obviously too big for those Maggies (almost 50m2...over 500 ft2, with heavy absorption). And yet, with BACCH and ORC turned on ( while achieving a mere 8 and 10db of cross cancellation) I just coudn't believe the way it reproduced lower pedal notes of the organ... those small loudspeakers morphed into a cathedral! It's hard to imagine what would happen with the larger Maggies and the REL.
