Noise is only added when it's plugged in right? Does it change the signal in any other way?
And also, I got the analogy.. It was just a really bad one only implying some abstract level of subjectivity by comparing things completely irrelevant to one another.
I thought you might've meant that. There are different masters of those records so it depends which ones you're listening to. I'm referring to the 24-bit remastered stereo ones. I like how those sound despite their hard left and hard right mix. With compensation of time it takes for sound to travel between two ears kept in mind, I'd be interested to listen to how some of that stuff sounds like. This is keeping in mind of course that if that is what an engineer wanted, he/she would've done it to begin with, maybe for a kind of spacing distribution. If an engineer (or artist) simply didn't even understand these kind of concepts when mixing to begin with, well then that's just how it is and that's how it sounds like. I don't believe in "correcting" that, same as I don't believe in altering the mix/master in any other way. This is just as integral to the song as is the composition. There's so much proof of that. In the end, it would be like adding harmonies to a song which doesn't have any, even if it feels like it needs them or would benefit from them. If it's crap without it, then it's crap, and you move on. It's how everyone else will theoretically hear it too.
I'm not arguing vs. your use of it by the way - just saying... In your case and where you say you like it to be on, (as I've said, I'm curious in trying it myself) it actually doesn't have much to do with the things I was describing.