I have a number of (predominantly jazz) mono albums I want to 'digitise' and
they present me with an interesting dilmma - whether to record them as 'dual
mono' or 'mono mono'..??

So, is there any convention or meaningful reason why they should not be
recorded as 'dual mono' if I choose, or indeed is there any merit in
recording them thus?? One thing I notice is the spitchy bits (no cleaning on
these samples) are nicely moved into the middle and in some way buried in
the mono transcriptions, but I do hear other interesting differences!

Here are a couple of near-identical samples to compa

http://www.moirac.adsl24.co.uk/showntell/DBdualmono.mp3

http://www.moirac.adsl24.co.uk/showntell/DBmonomono.mp3

Anyone with any thoughts?

TIA, as usual....