Imaging question


Hey,
A friend gave me a copy of Big Country's LP "The Crossing". I'd heard "In a Big Country" on the radio many times but never the album. Anyhow, I dropped the needle on the first track - "In a Big Country" and was amazed at how narrow the soundstage was. Like, every instrument and vocal seemed to shmushed into a 4-foot wide corridor of sound, not even stretching out to where the speakers were.

What gives?It was just this album as I put on other LP's and they imaged wide and deep as usual. Is it a production artifact? Could it have been that pressing?
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No obsession implied. I was curious from a technical point of view whether it was a production thingie or something from the pressing itself. The second song on that LP seemed to open up a bit.
I have the original '83 pressing, too. It's an anomaly in my listening experience. And it may well have been what Lillywhite and the band wanted to sound like, except I would never deem Big Country a band that goes for "an assault to your ears."

Again, this is all curiosity from a technical perspective as to how and why the sound would be so.
Huh. But why would that particular LP - and not any others before or after - sound that narrow?
Curiouser and curiouser. This is even better! Now I'm intrigued to start figuring out why this LP, and not others, is getting damped.
I agree. I can't see why my system would be damping ONE specific recording and no others.