From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #176 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Monday, September 14 2009 Volume 08 : Number 176 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Where the byte meets the road [Markwstaples@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:58:46 EDT From: Markwstaples@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] Where the byte meets the road Well, so far I've bought 3 of them (I'm quite, quite broke now), and here's what I've found: RUBBER SOUL. They used the digital masters that George Martin created in 1986. But, the reissue sounds crisper and the stereo effects more separated and isolated. HELP! Use the Martin masters again, but, somehow, it sounds worse. I noticed that it is louder at the same volume level on my stereo in a side-by-side comparison. So, maybe it's that talk on here earlier about the consequences of volume gain. I'd skip this one. Wal-Mart has a no questions return policy and I would've returned this one and gotten another one, but I bought this one at a real record store, vs. the other two. A HARD DAY'S NIGHT Wow. Amazing what they've done here. It's as dramatic a difference as the hazy PET SOUNDS mono mix vs. the Wilson done, clean and clear stereo mix side-by-side on the same CD from about 8 years ago or so, in comparison to the '80s mono CD issue. Truly a marvel of modern technology. Next one for me will be SGT. PEPPER., then probably BEATLES FOR SALE (though I hate the track "Mr. Moonlight"--one of the few Beatles tracks that sends me to the forward button instantly. Sounds like it's *THIS CLOSE* to being mariachi music in a burrito joint, and I'm not a fan of "Kansas City" or just about any of the '50s or Motown stuff they did, so, the first two albums for me are a no-do). I think just about anything would be an improvement of the '80s version of BFS--it sounded muffled compared to the '80s mono HARD DAY'S NIGHT. Phase two, in which Doris gets her remastered oats, - --Mark ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V8 #176 *******************************