Is this the Channel Classic's DSD recording you were referring to?
https://channelclassics.nativedsd.com/albums/concerto-for-cello-and-orchestrasymphonic-variations (While not DSD, the album is also available on Tidal. With Roon's up-sampling a recording of this level should do well on it's own)....
Side note...... The mic placement is very close, too close according to some but to me that is one of the things I like about this recording. While maybe not ideal from a balance standpoint the level of detail is astounding. Purely from an "audiophile" standpoint, I often prefer a smaller group ensemble for this very reason and this provides the best of both world (large + small). However this is a good recording to experiment with the crossfeed function. With the mic placement I think level one of crossfeed adds more than it detracts from my enjoyment.
Hello ,yes that's the one.
Normally Jared Sacks mic's less close than on this one. But this is a live recording and in order to avoid some of the audience noise being picked up, I think he mic'd closer than he normally does.
With most of his recordings he balances at sessions and monitors both via headphones and speakers both in stereo and 5 channel mch.
I have had the opportunity to repeatedly hear all three ways and compare them to the live sound in the hall, And frankly the closest to real live sound in the hall was the 5 channel mch version.
But both from what I heard via his AKG 1000 monitoring headphones and from the stereo masterfiles via my own HD800 and now HE1000V2, I don't think crossfeed is needed.It messes up the original image and puts some bass instruments where they were not in the hall. The main part of the sound in stereo comes from the main stereo pair which are placed so they balance with no hole in the middle and good coverage of both channels both left and right.
Imho, done well with the main sound coming from an omni stereo pair ideally placed there is no need for crossfeed with headphones with most classical recordings. Ok there are some bad ones where basses are almost isolated in either the left or the right channel depending on where they were in the hall. But those are exceptions and most classical symphonic recordings actually sound closer to how things were sounding in the hall without crossfeed.
Since I was there last time there have been some experiments both with minimal miking and binaural and I am trying to convince Jared not to just sit on those but also make them available for sale to the general public.
Binaural is of course the optimum way of hearing things as close as possible to live sound in the hall via headphones. But good simple stereo pair miking can get pretty close too. And mch adds a similar three dimensional sound when listening via speakers.
The only thing that has kept me from going mch is the astronomical price I would have to pay for the ideal mch solution which is five identical speakers and comparable five channel amping.
HUGO 2 expensive as it is for what it does, seems almost cheap in comparison to a highend 5 channel system.
Luckily more and more" high information content" music, like classical and jazz is becoming avalable in binaural and I just noticed that some of this season's Proms will be broadcast binaurally.