Beatles Remastered Vinyl

Yes, Juno are sound as a pound.

Listen to your selves £266 is something of a bargain??????????

Just how many times do you need to buy the same music?

Industry + lots , buyers - several million. Some of the people all of the time?

I have now bought only three times. I sure hope I do not have to do it again anytime soon though. I have to resist the mono box. 

Hi Paul.

Just checked the juno link currently on at £298.99p

Graham.

Paul,

You also have to pay postage. Try What Records £275 +£8 postage or Amazon £299 free P&P.

ATB

Steve

I get your point Howard but with everything Beatles related most want the best reproduction possible and over the years we're not likely to lose out as these sets are likely to increase in value. It actually works out at an average of £20 per album (and that includes 2 double albums) + the book. That's pretty good value when compared to some reissues eg Jethro Tull.

ATB

Steve

Hopefully, it was not left on your front doorstep by their "couriers" Yodel, who left a package with about £70.00 worth of books in it in my porch. Sadly, I don't have a sweeping, curved driveway leading up to the mansion, so I was amazed it had not been "borrowed" by a passer-by

Al

The same firm left my Can "Lost Tapes" box set package in our bin store... normally this would have been fine - it has doors, is dry and nobody ever looks in there. Unfortunately they happened to leave it in the bin store the same day as the dustman collect the rubbish, and it was carted away to be incinerated. Fortunately Amazon provided me with a replacement FOC as soon as I got in contact with them.

Personally I wish they'd use the Royal Mail - at least then you can go to the local sorting office to pick up your parcel, rather than some godforsaken industrial estate in the middle of nowhere that's impossible to get to without a car.

How many times? For me it will be seven for Abbey Road; original vinyl, MFSL vinyl, a long-gone eight track tape, a cassette for the car, original CD, remaster CD, and soon remaster vinyl. For many of the other albums it’s six: domestic vinyl, import vinyl, original CD, remastered CDs in stereo and mono, and soon remastered vinyl.

I reckon I have well over one hundred Beatles albums now, between the various formats. Plus several bootlegs.  Still, I continue to buy and doubt I’ll ever regret it. I’m not worried about their future value because I don’t intend to ever sell them.  

And then there’s the mono remasters on vinyl looming in the future. I wonder if they’ll upgrade the Anthology series???  It's all pretty good marketing for a band that hasn't been in the recording studio for over 40 years.

> And then there’s the mono remasters on vinyl looming in the future. 

Excellent ... wonder when we'll get those. 

I think they should reissue all the singles in a box. 

Kevin

They do use Royal Mail,but only for small packages, it seems. I  complained to Amazon, even thoiugh I did not have my package of books trousered by someone waliking by the house.

My neighbours have a sideway to their house, and found one of their deliveries in the sideway, it having been lobbed over the wooden gate. In both instances, no card etc had been left to notify either of us that a parcel had been delivered.

I told Amazon that henceforth I would only be ordering stuff if I was sure it would be delivered by Royal Mail:the response was that they would take up the matter with Yodel, but that they did not have any control over the method/means of delivery (?)

I suspect that Yodel are cheaper than the RM: I ordered the vinyl Minimum Maximum by Kraftwerk a few years back and collected it from my local GPO depot which is 15 minutes walk away: I guess they are saving ££ by using crap couriers. In fututre, I will split orders, even if it means ordering things on successive days, so that it/they can fit through my bloody letterbox.

The Royal Mail are much better than courier companies!

Al

Chicago Tribune article on Beatles vinyl versions:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/...,7626293,full.column

Personally I don't have much of a stake in this discussion, but I thought I'd share this with those who do.

Take care,

I can't believe they used the 1979 box set as a reference to 'old' pressings so, to me, this comparison is not that useful. Surely someone had some 1st or early presses to compare the new with? 

Steve

Can anyone who saw/read the Tribune article please summarize?  I can't get to that link, it keeps asking for a digital access code.

I can't believe they used the 1979 box set as a reference to 'old' pressings so, to me, this comparison is not that useful. Surely someone had some 1st or early presses to compare the new with?
Steve

Steve,
I wouldn't expect original pressings to stand much of a chance vs the new heavy vinyl.  Actually, a comparison of the remastered vinyl to remastered CDs would be interesting.

Now $319 on Amazon + tax

Analog Planet has a recorded interview with the mastering engineer. from what I can hear of the call, they used a Prism DAC.

US Pressings are from Rainbow.

I found that interview with Sean Magee  http://www.analogplanet.com/co...ering-beatles-lp-box

It's a 20-min long MP3 that I don't have time to listen to now.  Yes, the masters were reduced to 24 bit/44.1.  I will give it a listen tomorrow.

From this link http://www.analogplanet.com/content/abbey-roadblock reviewer Michael Fermer states of the box set "What about pressing quality? Well so far I can't say it's up to the high standards of RTI, Pallas or QRP. I haven't gotten my hands on the European edition pressed at Optimal in Germany but I suspect that is better than these records pressed by Rainbo."

It's only speculation regarding the quality of the US pressing at this point, but interesting.  It would be consistent with my findings from many years ago.  Those who care should post comments at that last link encouraging Michael Fermer to compare the pressings. 

Joe,

You obviously haven't heard a 1st pressing. They would be the gold standard against which the new reissues should be compared.

ATB

Steve

Steve, 

You are correct.  To my knowledge I've never heard a first pressing Beatles LP.  I'm just now about to get back into vinyl after a 26 year hiatus.  My thought here was that age and use of original LPs would result in reduced quality of playback versus the newer pressings.  Maybe not the case?  Additionally, my earlier listening was always done on far lesser quality gear than I now have.

My desire to compare the CD to vinyl remasters would be to see if the vinyl medium could cure the digital chill, as I put it prior.  In this case, does the fact that original master tapes are digitally restored and then applied to  vinyl result in a satisfactory vinyl experience?  If not, why not just listen to my fore-bought CD remasters?  I'm thinking now that going with the single LP trail approach before committing to the box set might be a good idea, though I would miss not having the accompanying box set book   .

Here is the closing paragraph of that article:

Mark Caro

5:07 p.m. CST, November 12, 2012

...

So the new albums fared best, and on my far more modest home stereo system, I spun some of the albums we hadn't test-driven, such as "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help!" and they sounded excellent as well (standout: "And I Love Her"), though the White Album still had that strangely muffled quality.

 

Although Buskin tended to prefer the new ones, he was frustrated by the inconsistency. "What is unsatisfying about it if you invest the money, you're still not assured of getting the definitive versions across the board," he said.

 

But Shanoff felt that all of our nit-picking missed the larger point: The Beatles albums were available again on vinyl, and the fact that so much more care was put into these reissues than the commonly available reissues of earlier years was just icing on the cake.

 

"I'm of the belief it's a good thing to have Beatles albums back in print," he said, "whether they're $12.95 or $24.95."

 

Yes. Yes. Yes.

I have a German 1st of "Rubber Soul" and the more I hear the new one, the more it blows away the German 1st.

Same with Abbey Road.

Really, I couldn´t care less about all this "digital-this-analoque-that"-source-blablabla...

For 27€, the records I bought sound absolutely fantastic and NOT the least "digital".

Musiclover,

We'll have to see. I have many of the UK 1st presses in good nick and they sound awesome. I'm delighted to hear you're delighted with the SQ. If they're close in SQ to the 1st presses I'll be happy, if they're better I'll be deliriously happy! I'm reserving judgement.

Steve

The Box has got the thumbs up on the “”Scottish” forum. Mudcrutch   in particularly likes them big style.

Graham.