In message , Jim Lesurf
writes
In article , Tony
wrote:


With music though, it's amazing what sound people will put up with so
long as they can tell what notes are being played. I once found a
quite widely released music cassette that had been mastered in
antiphase.

I have a couple of commercial DVDs of films where the 'mono' soundtrack is
in antiphase stereo. Nastly obvious on a good stereo, but maybe most people
don't notice or assume it has been 'enhanced'. :-)

Slainte,

Jim

When listening to mono on headphones, I usually prefer to connect the
earpieces in antiphase. When they are in-phase (which is, of course, the
normal condition) the audio image is dead in the centre of your head.
This is very 'unreal', and soon becomes rather tiring. When in
antiphase, the image is spread throughout your head, and is much more
pleasant to listen to. I think that the same reasoning could be applied
to loudspeakers.
--
Ian