...Ah! Audiophiles, or at least a sub-species of them...always hearing dramatic differences and the like. Insulation, power cords, ICs, sand bags...you know the drill.

Well anywho, I was doin' some surfin' to see if I could get some info on a CD reissue of a specific record and in the process discovered the following quote in a review of a $2k loudspeaker in an online site that touts themselves as "The Complete Audiophile Magazine"...

"...As we listened to John Coltrane's "Soultrane"(Prestige7142), we were able to pinpoint the location of each musician and hear Coletrane"s breathe(sic) as he exhaled while playing the saxophone..."

Well firstly, I surely hope you can hear him exhale...I mean that's where the music is, that's how one plays the sax, no? Probably meant "inhale"...nit-picky SOB that I am...Onward and upward, and here is where the imagination bit comes into play, try as I might, I could find no mention whatsoever of there ever having been anything but a MONO release of the disk or disc...according to an addendum to the original liner notes, the disc was re-mastered using JVCs 20-Bit K2 Super Coding System from "...the original analog 1950s(Feb. 7, 1958 to be precise) material and therefore contains inherent tape flaws...etc.) ...now either these reviewers were full of it and wouldn't know mono from a hole in the "stage", were just tossing around the titles of some seminal jazz albums(also mentioning Davis' "Kind Of Blue") to convince their easily-led readers that they are cool and thus fonts of "deep" knowledge or listened to absolutely nothing at all and did a New York Times-style bit of reporting...Imaging in mono?

jimHJJ(...curious, eh?...)