All live recordings should be in mono to reproduce the event as you would actually hear it if you were in attendance I suppose.My brother's system is actually set up like that.A wall of sound that is a blast to listen to:)
Soundstaging and Imaging: The Delusion about The Illusion
Soundstaging in a recording—be it a live performance or studio event—and it’s reproduction in the home has been the topic of many a discussion both in the forums and in the audio press. Yet, is a recording’s soundstage and imaging of individual participants, whether musicians or vocalists, things that one can truly perceive or are they merely illusions that we all are imagining as some sort of delusion?
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