Monaural reproduction conveys reverberation only as a time-domain effect without spatial envelopment

Evidence

Monophonic reproduction delivers the basic music: melody, rhythm, vocal and instrumental content, and a hint of space in the form of reverberation. Reverberation in that case is a time-domain phenomenon because it emerges from a single loudspeaker—there is no sense of being in the same space as the performers, no envelopment. — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 679