Audiophilepure

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Even more riveting was Craft’s astonishing 4LP box set, Miles ’54 – The Prestige Recordings [CR00689]. Although cut only four years later than the Sinatra sessions, the sound quality available to Miles Davis audibly expanded the dynamic range and added heft to the bass and drums. The attack of the trumpet and the breathiness of the saxes were of a standard yet to be bettered, and it was here that both the feedback settings and the single-ended-vs-push-pull variances of the Neo-Classic were made vivid.

As theories go, this is pretty lame, but I feel that mono frees the listener (in auditioning mode rather than listening purely for pleasure) from the distractions of worrying about imagery, soundstage and other stereo-related virtues. Instead, one listens just to the performance and the instruments.

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