The Beatles Remastered Stereo Box Set Review
Lots of Beatles fans own all of The Beatles albums on CD already and are probably thinking long and hard over whether or not it's really worth buying all of their albums on CD again because they've been remastered and repackaged.
The appeal of The Beatles Mono Box Set is easier to understand. This is the first time these mono mixes have ever been released on CD and in the case of mono version of The White Album, it's the first time it has ever released in the US in any format.
Sound quality is the big draw with The Beatles Stereo Box Set but you don't have to be an audiophile to appreciate the improvement in sound quality. The improvement is so obvious that sometimes it almost sounds like the songs have actually been remixed as well as being remastered ("Long Long Long" is a great example of this huge improvement.)
One way to explain this improvement in sound quality to someone who has the old Beatles CDs and doesn't hear anything wrong with them is to compare it to going from DVD to Blu-Ray when watching a movie. DVD is OK, but Blu-Ray looks fantastic! This is the best music of all time, don't you think it deserves to be heard in all of it's true glory?
But with music I think sound clarity is even more important than video clarity is to a movie. Why? Because with a movie you can still follow the plot and know what's going on just the same whether or not it's perfectly clear or not. But with music, the added clarity can actually allow you to hear parts in the music that you may have missed when it wasn't as clear.
When listening to The Beatles in Stereo CDs I hear all kinds of little details in their songs that I never heard before, even though I've listened to all of their songs hundreds of times!
They worked on these getting these remasters just perfect for years and all of that work has definitely paid off because they managed to do something which is very difficult which is to keep the original analog sound of the tapes while also improving upon the clarity of the music.
The most obvious improvement in the sound is with the bass and the drums. With the old CDs the bass and drums were too often buried in the mix. Not anymore. Now they propel the songs forward as they were intended to.
There were a lot of potential mistakes that they could have made when doing these remasters. They could have taken part in the "loudness wars." They could have taken out all of the analog ambiance that helps give the music it's "life." They managed to avoid all of the mistakes and really do The Beatles music justice. They've never sounded better before. - 23806
The appeal of The Beatles Mono Box Set is easier to understand. This is the first time these mono mixes have ever been released on CD and in the case of mono version of The White Album, it's the first time it has ever released in the US in any format.
Sound quality is the big draw with The Beatles Stereo Box Set but you don't have to be an audiophile to appreciate the improvement in sound quality. The improvement is so obvious that sometimes it almost sounds like the songs have actually been remixed as well as being remastered ("Long Long Long" is a great example of this huge improvement.)
One way to explain this improvement in sound quality to someone who has the old Beatles CDs and doesn't hear anything wrong with them is to compare it to going from DVD to Blu-Ray when watching a movie. DVD is OK, but Blu-Ray looks fantastic! This is the best music of all time, don't you think it deserves to be heard in all of it's true glory?
But with music I think sound clarity is even more important than video clarity is to a movie. Why? Because with a movie you can still follow the plot and know what's going on just the same whether or not it's perfectly clear or not. But with music, the added clarity can actually allow you to hear parts in the music that you may have missed when it wasn't as clear.
When listening to The Beatles in Stereo CDs I hear all kinds of little details in their songs that I never heard before, even though I've listened to all of their songs hundreds of times!
They worked on these getting these remasters just perfect for years and all of that work has definitely paid off because they managed to do something which is very difficult which is to keep the original analog sound of the tapes while also improving upon the clarity of the music.
The most obvious improvement in the sound is with the bass and the drums. With the old CDs the bass and drums were too often buried in the mix. Not anymore. Now they propel the songs forward as they were intended to.
There were a lot of potential mistakes that they could have made when doing these remasters. They could have taken part in the "loudness wars." They could have taken out all of the analog ambiance that helps give the music it's "life." They managed to avoid all of the mistakes and really do The Beatles music justice. They've never sounded better before. - 23806
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These Beatles Remastered CDs sound incredible. Both the stereo & mono box sets are "must buy" items for serious Beatles fans. Buy The Beatles Remastered Stereo CD Box Set online now.
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