Can't Buy Me Beatles?

[tbeshear]

Funny, I recall similar hype about the wonderfulness of the sound quality on 
the late '80s Beatle CDs. Hype is hype. I'll wait till I find out what some 
audiophiles I trust have to say about the new ones.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Carvill" <johncarvill at gmail.com>
To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 8:33 AM
Subject: Can't Buy Me Beatles?


> For anyone anticipating the forthcoming Beatles remasters, here's the
> first 'proper' review I've seen, from UK muso mag MOJO:
>
> "EVER SINCE THE BEATLES first emerged on CD in 1987, there have been
> complaints about the sound. Back then the convenience of storage and
> cue-ing, the miraculous dearth of surface noise, plus the erroneous
> predictions of the format's longevity ("You can gouge 'em! Put jam on
> 'em! They'll last for ever!") made naysayers look like ridiculous
> luddites. But in 2009 CD is the beleaguered format, dissatisfaction
> with Beatle CDs is not the crank's preserve, and anyone lucky enough
> to own original vinyl copies of the Beatles singles and albums will
> appreciate the advantages in clarity and dynamism they enjoy over
> owners of the corresponding CDs. Compare Paperback Writer/Rain on
> crackly 45, with its weedy Past Masters CD version, and the case is
> closed.
>
> It's a payoff, of course. Vinyl noise or CD murk? You pays your money
> and you takes your choice. Only now you don't have to. Because here
> are the Beatles CD Remasters, four and a half years in the development
> and bursting onto a market prepped and tweaked by the hoopla
> surrounding Beatles: Rock Band.
>
> "You're in for a shock," Abbey Road sound legend Alan Rouse had
> promised MOJO back in July, when we were first allowed some ear-time
> with the still-unpackaged discs. Brilliantly, that's still how it
> feels a month later...."
>
> http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2009/08/beatles_remasters_reviewed.html