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In Reply to: RE: Agree with you, Middleground! posted by Dman on October 15, 2014 at 06:07:53
Generally you and I are in agreement, but if you have not heard the new Beatles monos you owe it to yourself to give one a try. You may be very pleasantly surprised. I know I was. I may be in the minority, but I really could not care less about any of their pre Rubber Soul releases. I only bought three of the new mono records ... Rubber Soul, Revolver and Pepper. All three are outstanding. I will probably never play my stereo Rubber Soul or Revolver again. The monos are THAT much better. I find the mono Pepper overall to be a more cohesive mix than the stereo and might give it the edge over the stereo mix, but I'll still play the stereo one too as I enjoy some of the whiz-bang effects added to it.
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I have had for decades now a few Beatles albums on Japanese pressings and they are fine pressings indeed, but the stereo is so bad I could cry. On that basis I understand why some people do get excited over the monos. That's how bad those stereo recordings were! Absolutely no effort to even pretend that real people were playing their instrument in some form of real space.
I have some mono Jazz recordings that are lovely to listen to because the quality of the music and the playing takes your attention away from that small aural window. Some mono recordings are less objectionable to me in a way if I get the impression that I am actually sitting in the last row of seats high up in a balcony looking down at a stage so so far away that even in the natural sound of a group playing would be totally bunched up.
The worst are those Beatles recordings where the same instrument sounds hard left one minute and hard right another. What were they doing walking across the studio with their Vox amp tucked under under one arm?
I'm in the same boat as you- Rubber Soul, revolver, Sgt. Pepper, and MMT are my favorite era of Beatles.
That's probably the only reason "Rock 'n' Roll Music is still in my collection- its got most of the songs I consider "hits" and I don't have to pony up for the LPs again.
Regarding mono vs. stereo; yeah, different mixes for sure, and mono was the priority for their mixing back then, with stereo being somewhat of an afterthought. I have heard just about everything from Help onward in mono, courtesy of my old guitar player (he bought he CD box when it came out). Although the mixes are quite good (and in some cases just more or less different), the perspective of "everything in the center" just doesn't play well with my perceptions.
It's an opinion issue, I guess. At least we agree on the same era of their output!
Cheers,
Dman
Analog Junkie
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