MacGuffin
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As I said: The Beatles didn't record in stereo but in mono. The guitar was recorded in mono, the singer was recorded in mono, the drums were recorded in mono, etc. During mastering the guitar track was then for instance laid on the left channel while the voice was put on the right channel and the drums on both channels, so that they come from the middle. This is just an example to illustrate it.
This "double mono" has problems because most speakers sound rather flat and feeble when the instrument comes only from the left or the right speaker, mainly because the bass also comes only from one speaker and, well, most systems need both loudspeakers to create a powerful sound. I don't have this problem, though, since I got big speakers. Big is good, small is bad
Don't believe the bullshit people tell you in the hifi stores about being able to hide your speakers while retaining good sound quality It's either a lie or clever marketing to make people believe you can have a good sound with small speakers. You can't, even if the human hearing is able to reconstruct certain missing parts of the music signal.
So even if the bass is only on 1 channel, my speakers still have enough power to reproduce it rather juicy, if you know what I mean. And yes, the strict separation between guitar on the left and singer on the right (to stay with our example) can be confusing but in case of the current Beatles remasters they somehow managed to create some overlap, so it doesn't sound like you're hearing two different recordings.
This "double mono" has problems because most speakers sound rather flat and feeble when the instrument comes only from the left or the right speaker, mainly because the bass also comes only from one speaker and, well, most systems need both loudspeakers to create a powerful sound. I don't have this problem, though, since I got big speakers. Big is good, small is bad
Don't believe the bullshit people tell you in the hifi stores about being able to hide your speakers while retaining good sound quality It's either a lie or clever marketing to make people believe you can have a good sound with small speakers. You can't, even if the human hearing is able to reconstruct certain missing parts of the music signal. So even if the bass is only on 1 channel, my speakers still have enough power to reproduce it rather juicy, if you know what I mean. And yes, the strict separation between guitar on the left and singer on the right (to stay with our example) can be confusing but in case of the current Beatles remasters they somehow managed to create some overlap, so it doesn't sound like you're hearing two different recordings.
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