Save 30% on box set original recording remastered of The Beatles includes 13 studio remasters plus Past Masters and digital mini documentaries.

The Beatles Stereo Box Set [BOX SET] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Brand: The Beatles
Feature

    * Dimensions: 12″x6″x3″
    * Description:
    - Hard black glossy lift top with magnet clasp
    - CDs packaged in three panel digi-pak with digital mini documentaries
    - Remastered by Guy Massey, Steve Rooke, Sam Okell with Paul Hicks and Sean Magee
    * Contains:
    - All 13 Studio remasters plus Past Masters
    - Digi packaging with digital mini documentaries

Product Description
Song List (DVD of all 13 mini-documentaries (Running time: 40 minutes))

1. Please Please Me
2. With The Beatles
3. A Hard Day’s Night
4. Beatles For Sale
5. Help!
6. Rubber Soul
7. Revolver
8. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
9. Magical Mystery Tour
10. The Beatles
11. Yellow Submarine
12. Abbey Road
13. Let It Be
14. Past Masters

The Beatles Stereo Box Set Review
I was disappointed with the 1987 CDs, so I put my Mobile Fidelity albums (state of the art record albums back then, from the master tapes) onto CD around 1992 and have been listening to those since. I long since sold my 1987 CDs. Now I can get rid of those Mobile Fidelity CDs because the sound quality of these remastered CDs exceeds even them. For those 1987 CDs the first four albums were in mono. I can sort of understand that for the first two, with their distinct, wide 2-track separation. But the second two had four-track and sounded great in stereo. At any rate, I preferred all four in stereo. So went to extreme measures to get it, in quality. Now those are all here in glorious stereo in this set. as afraid that they would narrow the separation on the first two albums. Fortunately they did not. If you want to listen to those two with headphones, you may be disappointed with the sound — get the mono, but listening to them through speakers, several feet away, the stereo adds an outstanding dimension to the sound. Throughout this set, the bass is more evident, the drums are sharper – the quality just jumps out at you throughout — a testament to the much more sophisticated digitization techniques they have today than in 1987. A job well done!

If you can’t tell a huge improvement in the sound quality over these remasters and the 87 releases then I’m really puzzled. Like many of the folks out there I’ve owned the Beatles music on all the formats over the years. Album, eight track, cassette, and of course on the day they were released in 1987, CD. I think these stereo remasters sound beautiful. I think it’s like a fog has lifted over the music to let it really shine through. I don’t listen to headphones so the whole stereo separation issue is not a problem. Good speakers and proper speaker placement render this so called problem resolved. I own the mono box set too and it’s fantastic also. To compare the two is like comparing apples to oranges. One other thing. It really bothers me to see people who don’t even own this set review it. I’ll never understand that. Be happy and enjoy the music.

I’m not going to waste your time complaining about corporations releasing remasters to make more money, nor whether Yoko broke up the Beatles or claim that only my dog can hear the difference between both editions. But what I will say is that the sound quality is basically the difference between standard TV and HD TV when comparing the regular CD and the Remastered CD. I listened to several of the albums today through high end headphones and a headphone amp and I was mesmerized by the sound quality. You can hear sounds such as a chair move, an inhale before a note is sung and you can visualize the bass strings moving on the bass during While My Guitar Gently Weeps. I compared both songs from the old and new disk and there is a big difference. Original sounds flat while the remastered sounds three dimensional and rich. I highly recommend it if you appreciate good, rich sound. Do you need to own both sets of disks? That’s your call. If you are into good sound (you probably have an HDTV) then buy it. If you just like to hear music on your radio and aren’t moved by quality sound, don’t waste your money (you probably have a tube TV).

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