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"The Beatles In Stereo" box set (Copyright Apple Corps Ltd.)
Amazon.com now has The Beatles Stereo Box Set and The Beatles Mono Box Set (LIMITED) listed on their site.
Prices, which may change before release date of 9/9/09, are shown as we write this at prices ranging from $52-$58 under list price. We wrote about those list prices in an earlier post, along with pictures of both sets and complete descriptions. We said then that retailers would charge less than the list prices.
Amazon says if prices go lower than the one at which a customer was originally charged when they ordered, they'll get the lower price. In addition, they have free ground shipping for orders over $25. If you have Amazon Prime, a two-day shipping upgrade is free.
All the Beatles remastered CDs, including invididual issues, are listed here. We've also listed the British versions, plus order links for Canada.
British version from Amazon.co.uk:
From Amazon.ca (Canada):
Comments
I haven't heard much about how the music sounds. I, personally don't think the original CDs sound bad. I bought my first cd player for those Beatles releases. I remember being amazed at how great the music sounded. You could hear the Beatles taking breaths, fingers rubbing guitar strings.
I said for a long time "remastering does not make sense, that's the way the tapes sound. If you reduce the tape hiss, you reduce the cymbals or anything in that tape range." Now I understand that they can get rid of the tape hiss without reducing anything else.
I bought the Capitol Album cds. They sounded brighter but they had the echo on them that all the American albums had on them so you really couldn't make a good comparison.
With YS Songtrack, I assumed that it sounded better and never did an AB comparison. I don't have them both loaded on my PC/Zune and can't compare them without going to my hall closet and pulling out SGT Pepper.
Has anyone heard them?
WOW, they sure are gouging people who have already double and tripled dipped for their music already. I mean, come on... in this economy to charge $230 for a boxed set of mono records is nuts!
Are you kidding? You don't think the current Beatle CDs sound bad? Even Geoff Emerick said they sound like shi*. Just listen to the Love album, and if you can't tell the difference, well, I don't know what to tell you. I for one am looking forward to this. If they sound as good as the Love album, it will definitely be worth the upgrade.
Well they won't sound the same as "LOVE" or the "Yellow Submarine Songtrack," because the music on those was REMIXED and then remastered. These new ones are remastered only. BUT..they will sound better than what we have. I'm particularly looking forward to the mono set because that's the way they intended their music be heard. As Geoff Emerick and George Martin have said, you haven't heard how good the music is until you hear it in mono. Mixing for stereo was an afterthought, a hurried-up process. So, the mixes then will be the mixes now..."Rubber Soul," for example, I believe, will still have vocals to the left and backing track to the right, basically. That's my understanding. Having said all this, I'm still buying both sets. Why? Because it's the flippin' Beatles! I'm not a wealthy person, but $ was not an issue. I just placed my order with Amazon..and prices there are now redeuced and will likely be reduced more and the "then" price will be what one pays. Continued....
continued.....And placing the order made me feel just exactly how I felt as a kid when I knew a Beatles album was coming out and I couldn't wait to get it...the exact same excitement. I knew I was going to love it. It would be great. That's just exactly my feelings now and I know I"m going to LOVE all of it. (Didn't MOJO magaizine have a preview late last year of some tracks off the "White Album" and didn't the article indicate the difference between old and new were better than one could believe or expect. Don't know if the article meant tracks from the mono or stereo versions.)
Triple dipped? You have not be "asked" to purchase their entire catalogue since 1987 when CDs were shrill with bad packaging. Ever follow Costello or Bowie whose entire catalogues have be "reissued" at least three times each. Now that is way too much.
These will be the best verisons you can get. YOU MUST HAVE A SOLID STATE OR BETTER SYSTEM TO HEAR IT....
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