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I personally prefer stereo because it adds more separation between instruments whereas mono is just everything shoved into one speaker, although I also like mono because the way The Beatles intended people to listen to their music was on mono vinyl, with a few exceptions.

I like to think of it like this, what would you rather watch:

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The original 1940 black and white version of the classic Looney Tunes short You Ought To Be In Pictures, the way it was intended to be seen

Or:

The 1969 colorized version, which although is not the way it was originally intended to see, it does add color

If it makes you feel better, I prefer The Beatles in stereo myself, as it provides separation which mono lacks, so if I want to listen to just the backing track of a song, I just go to the stereo version and isolate either the left, right, or center. Although I will say that I like how the mono canon has the songs from Yellow Submarine as 4 non-album tracks on Mono Masters instead of the split album of the stereo canon which contains a B-side containing the film score and an already used track.

I wish The Beatles focused more on their stereo mixes than their mono mixes, stereo is superior in every way than stereo the only reason some people prefer mono over stereo is because bands like The Beatles tried harder on the mono mixes than their stereo mixes. If The Beatles paid more attention to their stereo mix, no one would think mono is better and they would label it as obsolete like 8 tracks.

You seemed to miss my point @Ron Nasty what I was trying to say is that The Beatles should’ve mixed their music in stereo so we could have better stereo mixes of their early albums, I said nothing about wiping any songs that were only released in mono, I’m not as stupid as the BBC was with Doctor Who.

When you think about it, stereo is just mono split up into 3 channels, left, right, and center and I personally prefer stereo because it provides separation and allows me to listen to certain parts in isolation, which is especially helpful for researching things, as well as hearing parts that are barely audible. To be honest, if it was available at the time, I think The Beatles should’ve mixed for surround sound for even more separation.

I do not believe that the latest technology is always the best, quite the contrary actually, I still use Internet Explorer, I prefer the sound of vinyl over CD, I hate that most modern music uses nothing but synths, samples, and drum machines, and I hate just about everything that’s new.

Also, this is all a matter of opinion, you might prefer the 2014 analogue mono remasters, whereas John Happy might prefer the original stereo mixes, or Don Snappy might prefer the 2004 mono US mixes, or Jim Clappy might prefer the 1987 CD mixes, does it make any of them wrong for feeling that way, it’s all the same song, it’s not like I think the stereo version of Ticket To Ride is a good song but the mono version is a bad song, I might prefer one to the other but at the end of the day, it’s the same song.

I don’t think they should’ve been stereo only at first, I think they should’ve offered a stereo to mono fold down for people who only had mono players until most people had stereo players, then they should’ve released the albums only in mono. The Beatles could’ve been pioneers in stereo in the same way that Walt Disney was a pioneer in color cartoons or that Black Sabbath was a pioneer to heavy metal but due to their monaural preferences, they took their mono mixes more seriously, therefore failing to be stereo pioneers.

Various reasons. To start, I’ve used it all my life so I’m the most used to it. Also, it comes pre installed with Windows, so it’s what I use. Furthermore, I like to have privacy, I don’t trust Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Edge, or any other browser (except maybe Tor, but I’ve heard that it’s slow) besides Internet Explorer with my privacy. With IE, I can set it so I’m always on InPrivate browsing mode and flush my DNS, therefore leaving very little trace of my browsing history, which I hate having. Lastly, my father uses it as his main browser as well, and he has been working with computers for so long that he used to use a BBS with his MS-DOS computer while he was in college back in the early 90’s, so he’s been using this stuff before it was even popular yet still chooses to stick with IE because he’s used to it.

Am I really the only person on this forum who uses Internet Explorer, I’d be surprised if no one else uses IE (or Edge).

Is the original 1968 single version of Hey Jude an original mono mix or is it folded down from a stereo mix.

I wasn’t saying that mono sucks, mono can be great, but I think The Beatles should’ve taken better advantage of stereo, similar to how Walt Disney took advantage of 3 strip Technicolor. Also, I was not alive while The Beatles were around, I was born in 1999. Anyways, I do agree that some things were meant for black and white, such as film noir and classic horror (the lack of color can make it scarier) and there are also fun tricks that you can do with it, such as using chocolate syrup for blood, which is what they did in Night Of The Living Dead, although I do feel that some films like Clerks and Creature From The Black Lagoon could’ve benefited from color and I also think that having some color and some black and white is a great artistic effect, such as in The Wizard Of Oz.