Beatles remastered. Good news or bad?

[Zoran]

Actually, my impression was that they,
signed more "vynil" athmo, then at the standard CD publications?

[MJL21193]

I've heard a few off the white album and I like what I'm hearing. To my ears it is MUCH improved.

[jimbomak]

Will they put the bass and the drums in the centre of the mix - hate listening to left channel bass on my headphones - feels like I've gone deaf!!

[Thebrain]

finally i got my hands on the abbey road remastered version.
i must say it is really detailed clean and...
lifeless.

played it simultaneously on vinyl and cd on the same setup (with a matched volume for each source).

the remastered CD sounds very detailed.
pretty middy to my ears probably because of the digital compression used.
not enough bass in my opinion.
it is very clean and has the PRO TOOLS flavored sound.
it sounds very good but lacks that Beatles charm.
(Beatles charm = dirty bass,distorted brass and vox,drums that sounds like pots etc...)

i was completley surprised when i heard the vinyl.
it was almost as detailed as the CD .
if the vinyl was new i'm sure it would have sounded even more detailed.
the mids were not disturbing like the remastered version but the distortion on the vocals did.
my copy is not in a good condition but it is easy to hear that a mint condition copy will definitely sound better then the remastered version.
overall it sounds much more pleasant and full of life.

to sum it up the new version sounds very 21st centurish.
i'm sure it will be more appealing to the compression frenzy mp3 audience.

one thing that i still don't understand:
what's the point listening to old music if it sounds new?

[predo]

The Beatles Double Album (White Album) Never Sounded As Good
It Realy Depends Who's In Charge Of Remastering Check It Out.

[scott wurcer]

Originally Posted by Thebrain

did they do different mastering for each pressing in different country?
i was surprised when i purchased an Italian pressing of the beatles 1967-1970 it sounds amazing!
much better than the English one.

I have Itallian pressings of several LP's and they have a unique equalization IMO. Can't put my finger on what though.

Love your other comment, I have several pre-Hendrix Family LLP CD's from the 80's. No fancy tools so they dumped the MT warts and all onto the CD. I especially like the "nudey" Electric Ladyland.

[Thebrain]

I have Itallian pressings of several LP's and they have a unique equalization IMO. Can't put my finger on what though.

they do!!
probably the Italians had better ears back then
or better pressing techniques...

[Netlist]

I've bought the box and I'm not impressed.
I'll let you have a look at Taxman from the Revolver album.
Left the new remastered version, right the LP version.
A listening session gives more detail for the remastered track but more musicality and less harshness for the LP version. The difference is not subtitle.
Listening from the remastered version has been done from an EAC rip.
Both tracks loaded in Audition, output via M-Audio firewire, amp, speakers.

Furthermore, I'm at a loss (again) why engineers desperately need to push that compression button.
Sad really.

[Netlist]

Dynamic range:
Left Remastered CD
Right LP

[Netlist]

I should add that I have normalized both tracks to -15dB.