http://www.thebeatles.com/#/news/Vinyl

"Manufactured on 180-gram, audiophile quality vinyl with replicated artwork, the 14 albums return to their original glory with details including the poster in The Beatles (The White Album), the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band’s cutouts, and special inner bags for some of the titles. Each album will be available individually, and accompanied by a stunning, elegantly designed 252-page hardbound book in a lavish boxed edition which is limited to 50,000 copies worldwide"

I heard on the radio that the boxed edition will retail for $500. 50,000 copies X $500 = $25Million. I bet they are sold out in an hour.

They are going to release the Mono versions next year.

I don't know what to make of this. I love the Beatles, all my LP's are worn out, I don't like the way the CD's sound, especially the remasters. It sounds like someone turn on Gloss and compressed them to oblivion. I'm probably going to pass.

Geoff Emrick says the mono version are best and what was meant to be en they mixed them 

I've heard that about the first 4 albums, but after those I was always under the impression that the original UK releases were in Stereo.

I'm not a big fan of mono anything, so I've always preferred the American Stereo release of the first 4 albums. It's the same tapes and recordings as the UK Mono releases, just hard panned on different equipment.

Only the mentally ill will keep buying these Beatle reissues. I used to be into it but I now realise it's a big con. Do I detect the pernicious influence of Yoko in this latest venture?

For my part- complete Beatles on tape, complete Beatles on CD, Beatles Anthology 3 double CD set, Beatles Anthology TV series on about 6 DVDs, Beatles Rockband game replete with crappy plastic toy bass and crappy plastic toy drums.

Never again for me unless it is a tin lunchbox signed by all four Beatles.

I would rather listen to Gaga.

I've got enough Beatles music.

That sounds like a great deal considering that most
Mobile Fidedlity 180 gram virgin vinyl collections can
be had but for almost twice that amount and they don't include
anything but an stylus alignment.

Mobile Fidelity did limit production for each master plate.
Mine has never been played...unfortunately I've never owned
a table that I would play them on......yet.

Owning both the remastered digital releases on Cd's I wouldn't
mind a bit owning the 180 gram virgin vinyl IF I knew how many
runs they were doing with a master plate.

The reason I wouldn't mind is that when the day comes and I
can listen the MF collection it would be very cool to have the
re-mastered digital on 180 gram virgin vinyl to listen to too.
Having the production information in a nice read but very nice too.
I believe it could be (if they do it right) a great addition to my
Beatles collection.

So....yes, maybe I will but I currently need more info and then I'll
need to be given the oppertunity. 50,000 could disappear quickly.

backwoods

Only the mentally ill will keep buying these Beatle reissues.

About 20 years ago I bought a box set of their CD's, it included the Past Master ones as well. It came in this nice little black rolling top case. The reason I bought it was, it was advertised as the digital transfers of the original metal masters and sounded better than anything previously released. I couldn't hear any difference at all when I got them. I bet if I ripped a file from each one and did a null test, they'd be identical.

That was when I stopped falling for the 'newly mastered/newly remixed/newly found fresher master' crap. The only reason I'm even remotely thinking about this is everything I own now is worn out and/or scratched. But ... it said these are the LP versions of the newly remastered CD's that came out a couple years ago and I thought those sound like crap ... so I don't know.

I was cleaning out my garage recently, getting ready to move, and I found an old ... and I mean old, cassette of The White Album that I made from an original Apple LP. That tape sounds awesome, and it's been laying in the bottom of a plastic tote in my garage in Iowa for the last 12 years enduring -20 to 110 degree temps, critter infestations, unGodly humidity, dust from gravel road etc etc. My truck has a cassette player in it and it's all I've been listening to lately. I just can't believe how good it sounds!

Never again for me unless it is a tin lunchbox signed by all four Beatles.

Yeah, but you sure as heck fire ain't gonna get that for $500.

This would be a cool thing to own, no doubt. I wish it waas available with the early albums in both mono and stereo, and the others in stereo. I'd pay a little extra for that but am not going to buy both a mono and stereo set. My fear would be that after buying the stereo package, they would announce just that, a stereo set including mono copies of the albums that were mono mixed. That would not make me happy, neither would it surprise me.

J

They are going to release the Mono versions next year.

 
This makes me wonder... are they just going to release the early LPs in mono or all of them, that would seem odd. Surely Abbey Road was never a mono mix... was it??
 
J

Also.. who is goin to profit from this? Who now owns The BEATLES music? Michael Jackson's heirs or did McCartney regain ownership of his tunes... what about Ringo, Yoko, and George's family. I wonder. I'm sure corporate someone is getting a big share too.

J