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I've tried it

I became curious about experimenting with mono when I got the Beatles mono box set, first CD, and then the LPs when they were finally released.

My speakers (Horn Shoppe Horns) are designed to work in the corners of the room, so I took the left speaker and placed it next to the right, in the right corner of the room.

While it sounded good in many respects, the placement of the sound emanating from one corner of the room drove me nuts. It was like I had bad seats to a concert, sitting far left of stage, and had to turn my head to the right.

Perhaps if I had more conventional speakers I would have tried moving them both to the center of the room, and enjoyed "mono" that way. I wasn't willing to give up the bass my Horns derive from corner loading, so I moved the left speaker back where it belonged.

I still get plenty of "soundstage", or rather a Wall Of Sound via the two spaced speakers when listening to the mono recordings. That may not be the correct way to listen to mono, but I gave up doing what is right, and went back to doing what I enjoy in this hobby a long time ago.


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