So I’ve been happily chunking my way through the ultrasonic cleaning of my records, and I got to the recently released Revolver box set. I put the records on the spindle, ran them through the cleaning cycle, and then put them on the drying rack. Somewhere along the way I forgot which in the stack was the mono release and which the stereo. So I figured - just take a look at the two of them for any kind of distinguishing feature. The labels are exactly the same!
You can’t tell one from the other by looking at the labels. Okay. Play them both using a stereo cart. I did, and honestly to me it was quite difficult to tell for sure which one was which. Is there any obvious way to tell one from the other? The last thing I want to do is wind up playing the stereo version using my mono cart.