Beatles Box Set
Finally got my hands on the Beatles remastered box set, totally worth even though this will be like the 4th or 5th copy of Beatles songs I’ve bought (tapes, records, CDs, greatest hits, etc). I think I will stop buying copies until they come out with the super-duper, hi-fidelity, supertronic bitrate version that is beamed directly into your brain.
I got the stereo version but I get the feeling that the mono version would sound better. A couple of the songs on Please Please Me were in mono and they sounded better than the stereo tracks. Had a hard time getting use to the tracks coming completely out of one speaker or the other, it was a bit distracting. The later albums were mixed closer to the stereo we are used to now. But in the end it doesn’t really matter as the remastered songs sound amazing.
Now that you can hear the bass, I would like to make the case for Paul McCartney being one of the most under-rated bass players ever. Ringo’s playing isn’t bad either.