Mono vs stereo

The early Beatles releases are very poorly mixed in stereo so mono is better in that particular case.
In most of other cases stereo gives you imaging and mono does not.

Nice post, bdp.  On the early Beach Boys LPs, I recall that Surfin' Safari, Surfin' USA, Surfer Girl, Shut Down Vol. 2, Little Deuce Coupe, the Christmas album, In Concert and All Summer Long were all stereo.  The Duophonic crap started with Beach Boys Today and Summer Days (at least, I think so).

czarivey, I may be in the minority but I prefer the early Beatles in stereo.  Of course I wish they'd done a better job with the panning of the tracks but given the method they used (bouncing between two four tracks, etc.) I'll live with it.  If I"m not mistaken the early mono mixes were done from the stereo mix, so the stereo would be one generation fresher on top of everything else.  I know that later they did separate mixes.

When listening in the car, All mono CDs sound so much better to me that I wish car stereo had a Mono button. 

What’s very interesting about The Beatles mixes is that some songs have different instruments either included or not. In other words, a given song on an original pressing of the white album may have a guitar part on the Stereo version that is not present on the Mono! There are a number of such songs, though I can’t name them. Collectors magazines and websites can provide such information for anyone desiring it.