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In Reply to: RE: Has the industry lost its ability to creat or discover new art or is it all product? posted by astralnavigator on October 30, 2009 at 10:17:43
Nice to hear about the hi-rez downloads. But why not immediately? These had to wait, of course, so the die-hards that have to have it now would go out and buy the physical media.
I will take exception regarding the vinyl. These latest remasters are claimed to be better than previous efforts. Modern mastering techniques, tastes, etc. So why not on vinyl? Available vinyl is old, and old-fashioned in its approach. At least that is part of the logic for all of this. And for the younger crowd, the masses, the 87 releases are just fine.
I am guessing the remastered vinyl releases will come from the new digital masters. Kind of waste IMO. Might as well buy the CDs. Just another attempt to milk more money, unless of course they actually use analogue master tapes. But they won't, they can't really since all of this was in the digital format.
No I am afraid this entire project was based more on money than on giving us the definative versions of the Beatles catalogue. The two box sets is proof enough. Mono and stereo? Please! Could have just issued one box with both versions. I guess they did with the mono box, sort of.
Corporate greed + the neeed for the Beatles great-great-great-great-great grandchildren will be set for life = new Beatles! Yeah! I not buying any of it.
Of course I might just be a cynic. I have not actually heard any of the new releases. Perhaps they would blow my mind! Based on everything I have read I doubt it.
George Martin said it best: 'The people who sit there and listen to the tinkle of a cymbal and say "Isn't that authentic" are missing the point---they really are.' (Stereophile interview Vol. 18 #7) And as far as I can see that is what all this is about. This stuff has been availabe for generations and the sound quality in general has been pretty good. The music has certainly been great for generations, new remasters or not. The recordings were never SOTA to begin with, never will be no matter how much tweaking is done. Just another way to milk the catlogue and it appears to be working.
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