If we are built for stereo, why are mono pressings (done right) so much better than the stereo versions? I have been in many demonstrations where they have played a stereo version then a mono version with a much cheaper cartridge and the mono version sounded so much better.
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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