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Am I totally nuts or just a bit off?

A few weeks ago I came across about a hundred old mono pop jazz albums from the fifties in storage I had forgotten about.
Had some extended(3am extended) listening sessions using a Shure M78 S(sperical) tracking a little over 2 gms on my trusty Sony PS-X7 .

Sure seemed to me that mono was way cool especially in the LOW listening fatigue factor. Going on a Goodwill road trip next week-LOL,

Tell me again, why was stereo invented?
schubert
don_c55
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Stereo was invented for a panoramic spread from left, to center, to right, for a realistic wide image!

Mono is only center channel only, narrow, sound!

It was everything from 1900 to 1957.
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onhwy61
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Mono is every bit as capable of producing high end sound as stereo or multi-channel sources. By removing L/R soundstage info more attention can be focused on tone, rhythm and dynamics.
schubert OP
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Don,to me stereo is artificially wide on must music while mono is more realisticly deep. Does live music have a center channel?
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