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2) the stereo image was perhaps overwide or as he put it, a little too left/right. I also agreed with that, and in fact had addressed that in the very first mastering in 1995, but with the only means available to me at the time, namely panning in slightly (adding a little right to left and vice versa). In the June mastering (which is what I has sent out up to that point and which is what Dan Banquer and Nathan Marciniak initially commented on) I did no manipulation of stereo width.
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This is what I meant e.g when I said, a proper stereo recording is not stereo playback compatible.