Live and dj soundsystems are almost always mono on speaker level (or at least mixed mono/stereo), and many people listen to mono as their audio system is mono (small radio's, phones, ...) so it never was gone.
I prefer stereo on home and car systems, but for bigger, mono is better as the chance that you are in the sweetspot of the stereo image is very small. It gives a better sound outside that sweetspot, so everybody in the venue can have more or less the same tonal balance
I prefer stereo on home and car systems, but for bigger, mono is better as the chance that you are in the sweetspot of the stereo image is very small. It gives a better sound outside that sweetspot, so everybody in the venue can have more or less the same tonal balance
"On this earth a shadow falls across the ravaged land" by Nick Brandt comes to mind here
Good analogy and lovely photos, thanks!
It was surprising to me how many depth clues mono contains. Of course once you think about, it's not so surprising - as tonal shift, timing, reflections, dry vs wet, etc all exist in mono, as well as on each channel of stereo.
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Grounding is easier, chassis work a little easier, fewer cables, no mis-wired bass cancellation, no poor tracking between channels in your volume potentiometer, less noise from phono pick up - and the list goes on !
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