You know, I HATED when they “digitally remastered” those old Beatles albums. Something about hearing Paul sing “And I Love Her” in mono was so hauntingly poignant. It totally lost that when remastered. The mono version sounded like he was sitting there singing JUST TO ME!!!!
Not actually sure tapes replaced vinyl. Actually, they were both at the same time; you used to buy the music as vinyl, then you made the backup as a tape, and then you could carry it elsewhere, since you could not listen to an lp while in the car. Same way as I backup mu cds as mp3; plus they don’t loose quality as I copy one mp3 file to somewhere else (they don’t drop 1s or 0s when I copy them)
I couldn’t see the point of spending an extra buck for stereo when my old mono equipment would just ruin the groove anyway. So yes, I still have some mono LPs and a slew of singles.
I came of age at a time when top-end stereos had turntables, 8-tracks and cassette players. 8-tracks fell pretty quickly by the wayside as I recall, but cassettes were still going strong well into the 90s, until it became cheap enough to burn CDs on your home PC. By then we were on the verge of converting everything to MP3 anyway.
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 7 years ago
Show him a black & white silent film. He’ll probably pass out from the shock.
x_Tech over 7 years ago
No point in buying stereo when your record player only has one speaker.
dlkrueger33 over 7 years ago
You know, I HATED when they “digitally remastered” those old Beatles albums. Something about hearing Paul sing “And I Love Her” in mono was so hauntingly poignant. It totally lost that when remastered. The mono version sounded like he was sitting there singing JUST TO ME!!!!
redback over 7 years ago
Not actually sure tapes replaced vinyl. Actually, they were both at the same time; you used to buy the music as vinyl, then you made the backup as a tape, and then you could carry it elsewhere, since you could not listen to an lp while in the car. Same way as I backup mu cds as mp3; plus they don’t loose quality as I copy one mp3 file to somewhere else (they don’t drop 1s or 0s when I copy them)
ronhagg over 7 years ago
When I first went away to college (1966) a Mono album was $2.59 and stereo album was $3.29. Cool huh.
gary.j.hayes over 7 years ago
yeah, like kids today would even know what mono is…
Skeptical Meg over 7 years ago
I couldn’t see the point of spending an extra buck for stereo when my old mono equipment would just ruin the groove anyway. So yes, I still have some mono LPs and a slew of singles.
InquireWithin over 7 years ago
I came of age at a time when top-end stereos had turntables, 8-tracks and cassette players. 8-tracks fell pretty quickly by the wayside as I recall, but cassettes were still going strong well into the 90s, until it became cheap enough to burn CDs on your home PC. By then we were on the verge of converting everything to MP3 anyway.
BR60103 over 7 years ago
I remember a time when LPs didn’t need to say “mono”; there was no stereo. “HiFi”, now, that was something.
warester over 7 years ago
Looks like a copy of “Meet the Beatles” that would be something to show off.