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In Reply to: Is Mono all that bad if the speaker is very good? posted by Bill the K on April 2, 2007 at 20:37:59:
If you are listening only to mono sources, one speaker will actually reproduce that better than two speakers pretending to be a mono source. Don't know if that answers your question.
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if you're listening to 2 or more channel source material in mono, you lose something and it's not only the spatiality that 2 or more channels provide. When you electrically mix 2 signals that were discrete, they interact in ways that they don't when fed to different speakers. That interaction is detrimental and reduces clarity.How much do you lose? Well, part of that depends on how the channels are combined, part on the speaker, and part on the listener and their experience, expectations, and tastes and preferences. Whether it's casual or serious listening plays a part. It doesn't bother me for casual listening and I can enjoy some serious listening that way but I'd prefer my serious listening to occur with the same number of channels as the source material. It may or may not be a big deal for you and you're fine if it isn't. If it turns out to be a big deal, then you will be unhappy.
David Aiken
Thanks for the comments.My memory of mono is the sound of my old KLH radio in the dorm.But then we guys were sprawled around smothered with books and magazines and the Byrds singing.Such musically satisfying sound! Like Dylan was standing in the room and all.Allison Steele, the nightbird of WNEW 102.5 FM keeping us company all night!Perhaps it is not the Mono or great speaker or tubes but it is where you listen and with who you listen etc are more important.Regards
Bill
Where you listen, who you listen with, why you're listening are all important and definitely affect your experience.A lot of what we do when we listen, things like what we listen for and how we listen to them, are at least to some degree learned; maybe even totally learned in some cases. We 'develop a taste' for certain things and some of those things are more important to us than others. Once something becomes important to us, it's hard to give it up. On the other hand, it's much easier to give up things that aren't really important to us.
Unfortunately we sometimes only find out what's really important to us when we have to give it up for some reason.
But as far as giving important things up goes, I think the old line from a song sums it up nicely: "How you going to keep them down on the farm after they've seen Paris?" Once we get used to something new, we don't want to go back to what we had before that.
David Aiken
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