The Beatles In Mono

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There's a complicated answer there, but you can hear for yourself what a good stereo Beatles mix sounds like if you decide to listen to a later record, like Abbey Road. Here, the added auditory information of stereo actually does make for a richer, more detailed listen. It's a lesson I'm thankful I learned, and hopefully, this article can serve as a reminder to young and old folks alike that, even today, sometimes you're better off listening in mono over the traditional stereo mix. In the early albums they had to down mix everything to two tracks, so that the voices could be mixed closer and more clearly in mono. In the last few years, I've been listening to a lot more pre-stereo recordings on LP and on 78 disks.

By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform.When I bought my first box set of the collected works of The Beatles, I got it in stereo, because why wouldn't I? By the time the White Album came out the band was in the studio giving input on both mono and stereo mixes, to please the fans who wanted to own both. Also includes: A double-CD collection of all The Beatles non-album and EP tracks digitally remastered in mono including four mixes unique to this package. When I started my hi-fi journey, I had gone from a mono record changer to a stereo system with two small speakers and was very happy with it.

For a lot of music, especially older music originally engineered to be in mono, a stereo mix can sound strange and off-putting while the mono mix sounds delightfully musical. Accordingly, you don't even really 'choose' to listen to music in stereo; often, it's the only option. When you listen to stereo music today, and lots of older stereo music too, you don't normally feel like half the elements of the track are on one side and the other on another. The thirteen-disc (fourteen on LP) collection contains the remastered mono versions of every UK Beatles album released in true mono, plus Magical Mystery Tour, which in 1967 was only issued as an LP (in mono and stereo mixes, and augmented with the A- and B-sides of their recent singles) in the USA, Canada and a few other countries; in the UK and many other countries it was originally only issued as a 6-track double soundtrack EP (in both mono and stereo versions) and the album version wasn't issued until 1976, and then only in stereo. Of course, the bigger version with the records is more desirable but this is pretty good alternative too :).When you're listening to music being played, live, in front of you, the singer's voice isn't only coming out of the right speaker.