"Iain Churches" wrote

I posted a link in my previous post to illustrate
the point. Up to now, David seems to find it
impossible to accept that the technical requirements
and listener expectations for a big band recording
are totally different to a classical project.

This is understandable.

You are continuing to use the terms "Big Band" and "Classical" as though
they were similar, they aren't. "Big Band" refers to one very specific
musical style that arose in the US in the 1930s, and remains the same today.
"Classical" can mean anything from the earliest days of "ancient music",
religious and secular, to "contemporary" music written in the 21st C. It
could be anything from unaccompanied voice or chamber music to an enhanced
symphony. Whist some "classical" is far closer in sound to the Big Band than
it is to most other classical music.

Frankly the notion that the very consistant style of the Big Band requires
one type of recording, and *everything else* uses a second type of recording
makes no sense.

David.