Re: Munch's "Damnation" in stereo - is it or isn't it?

> I just got the 'new' (yes I know most of it isn't new) Munch Berlioz
> box. The Damnation of Faust was recorded in 1954, and is allegedly
> a monophonic recording. Yet at times when listening to it I swear
> I hear a slight stereo effect. I know parts of the recording were done
> in stereo; has RCA done a patch-job, or toyed with the remastering
> in some way?

Many years ago I bought the Crosswords (nee, Supraphon) LP of the
"Archduke." I
always wondered why the stereo wasn't very good. Then one day I looked
closely
at the album -- I'd bought the mono version by mistake.

Even if your speakers are perfectly balanced, you can still imagine you're
hearing stereo when you're not.

The 1956 recording of "Candide" is stereo, but there are bands and
passages that
sound decidedly mono-ish.