Can't Buy Me Beatles?

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 25, 2009, at 11:14 PM, John Carvill wrote:

>> I can say this much—the Anthology cuts had better sound than the  
>> original
>> Beatles CDs and the "Love" mash-up on DVD audio is sonically  
>> wonderful.
>>
>> However, there is an aliveness to the Parlophone vinyl that has yet  
>> to be
>> surpassed. As for the Capitol issues, fuggidoboutit.
>
> Vinyl will always surpass CD.
>
> What exactly are you saying about the Capitol isues? The originals or
> the CDs? Too much reverb, etc.

Both—the Parlophone master tapes were subject to all sorts of audio  
horrors at the hands of Capitol's engineers. Too much reverb, too much  
compression, bad mastering and cruddy vinyl on top of that.