The Beatles Remastered Box Sets
December 10, 2009 by Harold Laurence Quesenberry
Filed under Entertainment
The Beatles classic albums were originally remastered digitally for CD in the 80s at that time mastering for CD was a new art and since then plenty has been figured out about how to do it more effectively but even more important is all of the many technological advances during that time.
All of the forward movements in digital technology and all of the know how learned on how to best create digital remasters have been put to very good use with the remastered Beatles releases of 2009. On September 9 The Beatles released both The Beatles in Stereo and The Beatles in Mono. And both box sets sound great. If you have not yet heard them then I recommend that you hear The Beatles remastered as soon as possible.
Which kind of Beatles remasters should you order? Well for this guy the answer was easy: “both of them” but if you can only have you’ll most likely go with the Beatles in Stereo since it includes all 13 of their studio LPs and most folks do prefer listening to the stereo mixes in comparison to the mono mixes.
The Beatles in Mono is aimed at hardcore Beatles fanatics who want to listen for every single difference between the stereo & mono mixes (and with some songs they are very different from each other) and for those who want to listen to the band how they originally listened to them (this obviously applies to older fans who were around for The Beatles in person back in the 1960s.)
On December 8th there will be a 3rd choice: The Beatles USB Memory Stick. This USB memory stick includes the Beatles entire stereo remastered box set in a little thing you can easily hold in your hand. How cool is that? It includes all of the albums in two ways; high quality mp3s and better than CD quality 24bit FLAC.
It’s the “better than CD quality” thing is what will excite the audiophiles but for most it’s the mp3s that will that’ll be added to the iPod.
Harold Laurence Quesenberry recommends this Online Beatles Store for all of your Beatles shopping needs. There’s plenty of other Beatles goodies there along with the remastered box sets.
