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Back in the days when stereo was a magic word and the major record companies
had tons of mono music they wanted to retread as stereo and cop some cheap
sales, one trick was to use an echo chamber with stereo pickups to add a
sense of spaciousness to the old mono recordings.

Quoting from the article cited above:

"I was able to use a large, irregularly shaped room, which had its own
hall-like environment. Listening became a very different experience, and at
first I didn't like it. The room's volume and "liveness" made the usual
stereo image fade away to practically nothing -- a record had to really Ping
and Pong before I could hear much difference between left and right. But
after getting used to this, I began to appreciate that it was much closer to
a live listening experience than the exaggerated stereo I was used to. The
sound was not particularly well localized, but then, it isn't in a concert
hall either. The overall acoustic effect was impressive, however; I doubted
I would ever go back to small-room listening."

"The real joy, however, was in rediscovering all my early mono records after
so many years. They sounded just fine."

See the connection? The only mjaor difference is that the author is using an
actual listening room instead of an echo chamber.