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Which Beatles remasters do you prefer?

1987-1988 Remasters
[ 2 ] (7.1%)
2009 Remasters
[ 18 ] (64.3%)
Don't know
[ 8 ] (28.6%)

Total Members Voted: 47

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Which Beatles remasters do you prefer?

Which Beatles remasters do you prefer?

Which Beatles remasters do you prefer?

Reply #1 –
If you prefer 1987-1988 Remasters, please, explain why.

I havn't enough time to compare this 2 remasters. But in 1987-1988 remaster there is a glitch on "Helter Skelter". In the other hand - 2009 remasters are a bit compressed    .

Which Beatles remasters do you prefer?

Reply #2 –
Quote from: Fool_on_the_hill on
If you prefer 1987-1988 Remasters, please, explain why.

I havn't enough time to compare this 2 remasters. But in 1987-1988 remaster there is a glitch on "Helter Skelter". In the other hand - 2009 remasters are a bit compressed    .


Shouldn't you have an option for 2009 stereo and separate option for 2009 mono. These are certainly different. I have all of these, but haven't had enough time to critically listen to compare....

Which Beatles remasters do you prefer?

Reply #3 –
Assuming you don't want to give people the choice of other available formats (e.g. original vinyl, MFSL needle drops, etc) - the question is still a bit more complicated.

e.g. The difference on, say, A Hard Day's Night is "night-and-day"  i.e. mono 1987 vs stereo 2009. But the difference on, say, Revolver is quite subtle. There's not much wrong with the 1987 version, and there's not much better about the 2009 version.

Much as I've been desperate to hear proper remasters all these years, what I've heard now isn't that convincing - if we'd waited ten years it might have been worth it - but we've waited 22 years - and still half the tracks are almost unlistenable on headphones.

Cheers,
David.

Which Beatles remasters do you prefer?

Reply #4 –
The question is does 1987-88 Remasers have any audible advanteges over 2009 Remasters (mono vs mono, stereo vs stereo). 

Which Beatles remasters do you prefer?

Reply #5 –
When you ask it broadly like this, my answer is: The new remaster provide more bass (among other more subtle eq changes). This is welcome on the older stuff, but Abbey Road had already quite loud bass parts and it is unlistenable on the new remaster.
As a whole it's not too bad.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Which Beatles remasters do you prefer?

Reply #6 –
Yes, in Abbey Road album bass is boosted ~2dB (i see this in spectrogram) but i didn't notice this, when I listen the album.

Which Beatles remasters do you prefer?

Reply #7 –
With Abbey Road there was also the Toshiba-EMI CD release in 1983 - I think I like this version better than the new remaster as the bass is completely overblown in comparison. Only problem is it has pre-emphasis...

The mono remasters are great, but the stereo ones have been noticably compressed.

Which Beatles remasters do you prefer?

Reply #8 –
The 2009 ones work better with my surround sound system

Which Beatles remasters do you prefer?

Reply #9 –
Just curious, what's 2009 remaster MONO good for. If somebody for some reason wants to listen to Beatles in mono (  ), then isn't it much simplifier do mix audio output to mono, instead releasing separate CD collection?
Just curious of sense of it.

Which Beatles remasters do you prefer?

Reply #10 –
@Anakunda:
It's not that simple, the mixes are significantly different as they were produced separately. Apparently they put more effort into the mono mixes as these would have been the biggest sellers back then - and The Beatles themselves had more input on the mono mixes (they were not present at all for the stereo mix of Sgt. Pepper's, for example).

There's some YouTube videos which go through the differences between mono and stereo mixes of some songs - some are quite drastic (different speeds, etc.).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_in_Mono#Intention