Re: [ARSCLIST] Early stereo LPs: subject to mononuclearosis?

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

phillip holmes wrote:

> If you have two speakers with nearly identical response curves (ditto
> everything else), you don't need one speaker.  Also, you need proper
> relationship between the two speakers and the listener (not too close).
> I get a very realistic mono center image.  It's harder to do good mono
> on a stereo than good stereo, in my opinion.
> Phillip
>
> Tom Fine wrote:
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
> PS -- regarding the point of mono out of 1 speaker or two. This is an
> interesting question today and I'd be very interested what others think.

As it happens, my studio is so cramped that one speaker is usually blocked with
stuff piled in front, courtesy of a lack of flat space and a cat who
appropriates what little there is at every opportunity, so most of my 78
transfers are heard from only one speaker most of the time. (One of these years
I'll listen to some of those issued discs on a real system and be shocked at
what they're putting on the right channel.)

dl