I have already published this article on another resource, but I hope the readers of Habr will also be interested.
Stereo sound has not been needed by anyone for half a century since its invention, and now we cannot even imagine mono music. How could this have happened?
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Even today, despite the abundance of recording formats, many of us continue to listen to music in the format invented by Alan Blumlein 90 years ago - stereo .