[archosman]

You're absolutely right. We had a consol... radio on the left, turntable on the right with about 4 feet of separation between the speakers! Ahh... the good ole days!





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Originally posted by zowie While its tempting to shake our heads today about poor engineering taste of the early stereo era, the super-wide effect was actually right for the playback equipment people were using then. What most people owned from the the late 50s to early 70s were either semi-portable record players or furniture consoles, both of which placed the speakers too close together for today's stereo recording techniques to provide much of a two-dimensional sound stage, but did not sound too wide on the old recordings in less you sat really close up. For the minority who did own high quality systems, many preamps offered partial channel blend settings to cure the problem. In addition, early stereo phono cartidges had much higher cross-talk, and all non-dual-mono ancillary equipment had somewhat higher cross-talk, than we enjoy today, so the effect would not be so pronounced in any event.