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In Reply to: RE: The trashed copy I have now is stereo... posted by ghost of olddude55 on March 29, 2021 at 14:06:30
I looked closer at my supposed UK pressing, and it turns out to actually be a German pressing of "Abbey Road." I guess the label words Seite 1 should have given that away. Discogs lists 13 German LPs all with the same catalog number. Three are stated as stereo by discogs, even though "stereo" is not written on the label. Two more of the 13 have "stereo" printed on the label.The German company used the same label number from 1969 all the way to 1981. My German copy is from September 1969.
So, I really don't know if my German pressing is stereo or mono. There is good center fill, as opposed to extreme far left and far right sound with no center fill. I really cannot do a complete test due someone else in the same room as my stereo. :^(
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On headphones, I could tell you if they were stereo or mono within a couple of seconds. FWIW, I've never seen a mono copy of Abbey Road .
But you gotta love those catalog numbers. I bought a copy of the Foundations LP Build Me Up Buttercup from Discogs and was majorly disappointed to find it in mono. The sleeve says "Stereo," the catalog number is the same for mono and stereo, apparently all of the sleeves have "stereo" on them regardless of what's inside the jacket. The only way to be sure it's stereo (and there is a stereo mix) is to look at the LP itself. If it doesn't say "Stereo" on the label, then it isn't stereo.
Just to make things even weirder, I've got some Prestige jazz two-fers, issued in the 1970s. One of them has "Mono" on the label even though the recording is stereo, another is the opposite.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
that's a bummer. I do have one re-release mono record that's a wonderthrill, Nat King Cole After Midnight. Even my dad thought he had the best voice out of all those crooner's. And he was great on piano too. What a spin and treasure.
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am sorry he went completely pop. Still a good voice but not like the small jazz combo that I like.
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I can't read maps without glasses
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But they're jazz and I only listen to them on the speakers. Some of them sound spectacular, in fact.
But I've never, ever, heard a mono rock and roll record that sounded as good as it's stereo counterpart. To my ears at least, too much of the interplay between vocals and backing vocals, guitars, bass, drums gets buried in a mono mix.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
a mono record is the best way to check you whole system for image centering, an FYI that I hope has been told before
Ptolomy Almagest
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