I finally got my Rusty Box today. I only had about twenty minutes to play with it, but it was enough to know that this thing does what it's supposed to do very well. I checked it against my TS-50B and it's pretty awesomely accurate. I had fun feeding it into my TS-50B for extra crazy.
I'm guessing that the overheads are mid/side and they weren't decoded prior to tape, so we're hearing the mid and out of phase side. This is a pretty educational thing to hear and it's a great lesson in getting good sounds to tape. You throw up the faders and it sounds pretty much like the record. I ...
Amen, tmidgett. I can't in my wildest fantasies imagine how these hi-fi lunatics spend thousands of dollars on one set of cables. Surely the electrons don't care.