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Remastered Beatles Vinyl: Will you buy?

Just got Abby Road from Best Buys, boy it caught me by surprise they had at least 10-12 different artists on vinyl. How can I tell remastered from original analog tapes pressing?
 
The jury's out on whether I'll buy the new Beatles vinyl. I like my MoFi Beatles Box just fine. I'll be more likely to replace the awful-sounding original CD issues with the new CDs (assuming that the new effort is an improvement).
 
KeninDC said:
No mention on the Apple site. Just a wishful thinking rumor at this point.

That being said, I reckon many of us feel that LPs are inevitable based on recent LP trends.

We'll see.
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gip111 said:
Just got Abby Road from Best Buys, boy it caught me by surprise they had at least 10-12 different artists on vinyl. How can I tell remastered from original analog tapes pressing?
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Any new Beatles vinyl currently in the bins, including what you might find at Best Buy is sourced from the 1987 digital masters used for the CDs.
 
gip111 said:
Just got Abby Road from Best Buys, boy it caught me by surprise they had at least 10-12 different artists on vinyl. How can I tell remastered from original analog tapes pressing?
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If it has a barcode on it, which yours does, it was digitally sourced.

If it doesn't have a barcode on it, then it, like every other Beatles LP pre 1987, then it's analog sourced.
 
If they use the analog source tapes OR ultra-high-res digital tape, then yes I'll get it. Only thing is they better have excellent QC at the pressing plant this time.

In the meantime, what do you guys think I should do with bad-sounding current new-press edition of 'Abbey Road'?
 
Patriot1776 said:
If they use the analog source tapes OR ultra-high-res digital tape, then yes I'll get it. Only thing is they better have excellent QC at the pressing plant this time.

In the meantime, what do you guys think I should do with bad-sounding current new-press edition of 'Abbey Road'?
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Try to return it for store credit if you can. Otherwise, sell it on eBay or give it away.
 
Sam Cogley said:
I've never even seen a UK Beatles album in my presence.
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About 3 weeks ago, I encountered a whole box of them. At least 20. Unusual looking albums, ( and photos)and the minimum on most was maybe 40.00.......... How many ways can you listen to a record? It gets tiring testing gear, let alone albums.(You can loan them to me!)
 
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I know The Beatles Remastered box set will include the monaural mixes. I am assuming they will release the monaural mixes on vinyl, this is a great advantage for casual listeners. Audiophile will complain because they are likely to originate from digital sources.
 
goldwax said:
If it has a barcode on it, which yours does, it was digitally sourced.

If it doesn't have a barcode on it, then it, like every other Beatles LP pre 1987, then it's analog sourced.
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Yeap...digital, and sounds like it, not bad but sounds just like a cd.
 
Dave1384 said:
About 3 weeks ago, I encountered a whole box of them. At least 20. Unusual looking albums, ( and photos)and the minimum on most was maybe 40.00.......... How many ways can you listen to a record? It gets tiring testing gear, let alone albums. No buy. ( But you can loan them to me!)
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The Beatles Blue Box (all 12 proper UK albums plus the Rarities album) can be had for about $275 these days on eBay in NM condition. Since the White Album is a double, this works out to $20 per disc--quite a good deal given the amazing sound of these LPs.
 
gip111 said:
Yeap...digital, and sounds like it, not bad but sounds just like a cd.
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Dude, get a Beatles Blue Box while they're still relatively affordable. (The price has been creeping up recently.) Amazing sound, the covers are great, just wonderful any way you look at it, and the closest you'll ever come to the sound of the original pressings at a teeny-tiny fraction of the price.

Add to it a German Horzu MMT and UK Red and Blue albums and you've got a pretty complete and phenomenal-sounding Beatles stereo collection on vinyl, all for about $20 a disc!
 
Yes, new vinyl remasters of The Beatles will indeed be released, just not on Sept 9. St*v* H*ffm*n let it slip out at his Forum, then had the thread deleted. He's not involved with them, though, personally.

RTI is pressing them here in the States from metal parts shipped over from EMI.

Vinyl will be the way to fly, rather than the CDs.
 
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goldwax said:
Try to return it for store credit if you can. Otherwise, sell it on eBay or give it away.
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I may wind up having to frame it, since I'm possibly the only person in Murphy with a fine vinyl rig. Anybody else who's probably got any turntables in Murphy most likely won't give a damn about The Beatles.
 
Patriot1776 said:
If they use the analog source tapes OR ultra-high-res digital tape, then yes I'll get it. Only thing is they better have excellent QC at the pressing plant this time.

In the meantime, what do you guys think I should do with bad-sounding current new-press edition of 'Abbey Road'?
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Just play it and enjoy the music. We get so caught up in whether it's the UK pressing (we don't live in the UK so most will never own one!!!) or if it is digital or analog source... As a child of the 80's most of what I listened to was on cassette or on a cheap toy record player or my parents Magnavox console. I loved listening to music and I never got critical of the sound.

That being said, I do try and find the best copies of stuff now that I have a good system but I never like to lose sight of what I really love...the music.
 
jlc76 said:
Just play it and enjoy the music. We get so caught up in whether it's the UK pressing (we don't live in the UK so most will never own one!!!) or if it is digital or analog source... As a child of the 80's most of what I listened to was on cassette or on a cheap toy record player or my parents Magnavox console. I loved listening to music and I never got critical of the sound.

That being said, I do try and find the best copies of stuff now that I have a good system but I never like to lose sight of what I really love...the music.
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He just said it was bad sounding, so why would he want to play it? I got an idea--why don't you make him an offer for it? That way everybody wins!
 
Sorry, I got a bit confused, I thought he bought a copy at Best Buy and was wondering whether to take it back or not (based purely on being told it is a digital remaster). If he dropped the needle on it and it sounds bad...then take it back or toss it and get ready to put down some cash to buy an original one off ebay or some overpriced record store.

You usually get what you pay for, those cheap vinyl reissues found at Best Buy are mostly for folks that are into the novelty of vinyl and aren't audiophiles per se. I have friends who buy vinyl and listen to it on cheap plastic tonearm turntables but I wouldn't say they don't love music (hell half are musicians) because of it. The same can be said for the Blue Note reissues, I bought a couple for around $10 and took them right back after I heard all the surface noise and saw a massive warp in one. If I really want the best sound, I would just pony up and buy one of those 45RPM 180 or 200 g LPs for $50 or better yet find a nm copy of an original for a few hundred. On stuff like this I usually find a compromise and buy the CD or SACD if available, this is based purely on economics.

Hopefully they will reissue these Beatles albums on vinyl (assuming they remaster them right) and the price will be reasonable ($20 per album). I might be able to buy my first Beatles album on vinyl.
 
jlc76 said:
Hopefully they will reissue these Beatles albums on vinyl (assuming they remaster them right) and the price will be reasonable ($20 per album). I might be able to buy my first Beatles album on vinyl.
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Not to sound like a broken record (yuk, yuk) but if you really want good quality Beatles on vinyl, the Beatles Blue Box is seriously the way to go. No one even knows if the Beatles albums will be released on vinyl as part of the new reissue campaign and if they are, they will almost certainly cost $25 or $30 a pop. PLUS, there's a 95 percent chance that they will be digitally sourced--much better than the 1987 reissues, I'm sure, and they might sound pretty good (assuming they're even coming out), but why pay more money for a likely inferior product when you can get lovely analog-sourced Beatles albums easily now?

And it keeps going up in price. I got an unplayed copy (my friend bought it sealed and opened to examine the albums but never played them, since this was just a back-up copy for him) a year ago for $200. At that time, $225 to $250 seemed to be the normal price. Now it's up to around $275 on average. It'll keep going up, too. Grab one now and enjoy it. You can always sell it and get your money back (with interest) later.
 
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