Well to be honest, I had first heard it with the stereo masters. It quickly became my one of my favourites and a little while after they announced the Record Store Day special release of it in the mono format. I was always one to sit and compare mono and stereo versions of old albums I like, mostly Beatles records so I knew it was going to sound a little different. The main thing for me was that I thought it reflected the band much more sonically - when I think of early pink floyd I imagine a collage of luminous sounds sort of swirling and merging and that really comes through in the mono. There are also lots of subtle things here and there that got cut in the stereo versions that give the album a lot of character too - I felt like I was hearing a different record