If your stereo speakers are properly spaced, aligned and in phase and you are seating in the 'sweet spot' the left and right channels should 'disappear' and the mono recording will appear to come from the 'phantom center'.
This is assuming that the CD recording is properly mastered, mono tape was played back on a mono player (not one with a stereo head) so that the left and right channels are properly balanced. Julf has some good advice above; using Audacity with those instructions and saving the file as mono will also reduce the file size. If you are going to convert your mono records to digital and don't have a mono cartridge, you can use 2 "Y" RCA connectors to combine the channels, then gently use software like Click Repair to remove a bit of the static, feed that file into Audacity to make sure that here is no clipping, and then optionally select one channel and save as mono. Supposedly The Beatles were actively involved with most of the mono mixes, but left the stereo mixes to the engineers. (3 days to mix Sgt. pepper in mono, and 3 hours to mix the stereo or something like that) Stereo LPs were like $1 more than the monos back in the day, and the 'wide' stereo mixes (with bass and vocals on one side and guitar and drums on the other) gave the customer the feeling that they got more for their money. Same with The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, and many others. As mentioned in the article, the mono Revolution has much more power and punch than the 'ice cream stereo' as Lennon put it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ stereoptic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=53162 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106011 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
