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RE: "Soundstaging and imaging are, IMHO, two of the most critical pieces of the "live" sound." ??????????????????

What you have posted is not really true bass nut. For example, even at the back of a hall you can tell that the violins come from one section, the violas another, the woodwinds yet another etc. Also, you can tell that the Tympanis and horns are towards the back and the basses are often back and to the right side. If that is not soundstaging and imaging then I am not sure what is.

Now if you take a pair of microphones arranged in a blumlein configuration and put them in the middle of that hall, record the concert and then play it back on your stereo at home you SHOULD get about the same degree of imaging and soundstaging that you would have had if you had sat in that location. I know this works because I have made such recordings. Sure you also get your own room acoustics in the playback but that doesn't mean you don't get a good sensation of the acoustic space, which is what soundstage and imaging are all about, from the recording.

I have just such an orchestral recording as well, the microphones were placed 6 meters from the front of the stage. It is the most natural and closest to what I hear live of any recording I own...it is also the ultimate system breaker (not literally, figuratively) because of its ultra realistic tonality and realistic dynamic swings. Makes most systems sound like they were dragged through the mud. On world class systems it simply sounds like you are there in concert (This has only occurred on about 3 or 4 systems, the last an Apogee Grand system of a friend's). I know more or less what it should sound like as well because I have heard a performance of the same piece sitting about 7 meters from the stage. The resemblance was striking.

"If there was a solo acoustic guitar player singing at a club, for one example, there would be no soundstage and the image would be a single point "

Maybe but it would not be a pin point so a rather large point in fact. Also the reflections in the club will create an acoustic space within which that musician is situated and thus a soundstage.

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