JerryL's first post on this thread asked what the sound quality was like.

A lot of posters have said that the mono set is very good. My questions are:

- Do you mean good for the 1960s or good by any standards?
- If you mean good by any standards, would you be happy for modern artists to record in mono as it can be very good?
- Would this be analogous to modern filmmakers using B&W for artistic reasons?

It seems quite odd to me that the original recordings are mono given that, for example, the 1958 Decca recording of Wagner's Rheingold is in excellent stereo and sounds very good (for a 50 year old). Was this really artistic intent or did they take the commercial view that most people who would buy the discs didn't have a stereo system at that time?

Malcolm