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In Reply to: the sound of mono returns? posted by digda_beat on July 11, 2014 at 18:02:38:
Oddly, probably anything BUT Mono.
I have a tiny Bose speaker (it was a gift, I'm INNOCENT) that is likely similar and actually I listen to it quite a bit. It has sort of a table radio sound that I rather like (reminiscent of my youth?) and yet throws a fairly pleasing sound stage. Absolutely not Hi-Fi in an objective sense but quite life-like in others.
The odd thing is it doesn't do mono. When the announcer comes on there is just nothing except an occasional hint of sibilance. That's a good much of the time, bad occasionally and odd always. But I've gotten used to it.
Now if I may jump of the cliff of speculation: I think the concept has a lot of potential for high quality home audio. Having two widely separated stereo speakers is just a poor way to try and reproduce music at home in my opinion. It's unnatural and wasn't even the way stereo was originally designed, it's supposed to have a center channel. In many ways mono sounds realer. (is that a word?) But lacking in "air". Well these new toys show that you can now more or less have your cake and eat it. The more realistic sound (IMHO) of mono with air and depth of stereo.
Compared however with my main speakers, it's a toy. But an amazingly realistic toy in some ways. If something along that line was implemented with speakers more like my Infinities, well that might just be something. Maybe we are coming up on a new era: Single source Stereo (with wireless wing speakers for big rooms) and binaural headphoning...
We really have no onus upon us to stick with techniques from the '50's!
Rick
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