[oldbrokentapes]

Originally Posted by Five

left-channel only? all this time I've been thinking that mono meant that right and left channels are identical. please explain.

Well yes, it is, usually, with them playing the non-wide stuff (better explanation in my main post). But the incident I'm referring to now, the contents of the right channel vanished (first few seconds of Innervision by SOAD), and there was just silence in the middle until it kicked. So it was like the contents of the left had been dragged into the middle (i.e. both speakers playing back the contents of the left). This is getting so complicated that I can't even explain what I mean using proper English anymore