Do you consider yourself an audiophile?

[danski]

Is all that not relevant if you run from one amp as the music should be mastered with proper mid/side business? A genuine question. I understand most (some ) of this stuff

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Is all that not relevant if you run from one amp as the music should be mastered with proper mid/side business? A genuine question. I understand most (some ) of this stuff

Mid/side is a specific way of recording a signal into a stereo format (using a cardioid mic and a figure 8), the primary advantage of which is the ability to alter the stereo width at the mixing stage.

Anything you’re playing back on a normal hifi is just a stereo file, one channel for left, one for right.

 

[danski]

 

[BassJunkie]

Insufficient Bass.

 

[danski]

Insufficient Bass.

That is actually a legit concern

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Don't think you'd want the bass in mono, unless you were running a single subwoofer?

Bass frequency direction in the wild (not on headphones) is not easy for the human ears to detect. For a pleasing and realistic experience there is no real need to have bass in stereo.

Bass frequencies are usually mixed to mono.

Correct.

 

[chemn]

As bees mentioned, depends where the crossover is. Subs, mono, yes, absolutely.

 

[ID47]

One good thing about getting old is that high resolution TVs and HiFi stuff become a complete waste of money as one can no longer see or hear the difference.

Music should be great on whatever it's played. It was always like that in the developing world and the same back in the day here in the West. Some of the greatest singles ever made were generally heard on cheap transistor radios even AM ones back then.