Beatles Mono Collection

I guess it is just the annoyance factor of prying it open without tearing it and then trying to keep it open when putting the album back in. It is better than shrink wrap though.
 
Time to fess up...both the Hagerman Trumpet Reference phono preamp and my ARC Ref 5SE have mono buttons and I don't normally engage either for the times I listen to mono LPs on my system. I decided last night before I went waltzing through the rest of the Beatles mono collection that I would engage the mono button on the Trumpet Reference. Every LP I played last night from the Beatles collection was quiet between grooves. I didn't go back and revisit the ones I was bitching about yesterday to see if those are now 'cured,' but I'm hoping they will be when I play them again.

I would like to think that the master tapes for the mono collection are in really, really good shape as the sound is so 'fresh' on the LPs. They sound like they were recorded yesterday and not over 50 years ago. I hear no dulling of the high frequency energy and more importantly, I'm hearing things with this collection that I have never heard before. And even when you have heard some of the sounds/instruments/vocals, you didn't hear them this way before.

If you claim to be into the Beatles and you claim to be into vinyl, you better go claim yourself a copy of the mono collection. Some people who love the Beatles don't understand the magnitude of what we have been 'given' with this collection. I talked to a friend of mine from Maine yesterday who has a great LP collection and who is into the Beatles (he has the MoFi collection) and asked him if he bought the mono collection. His answer was "How many times do I need to keep buying the same Beatles LPs?" That response is one that shows a lack of understanding of what has been done here with this mono collection.
 
"Audiophile" type sound quality metrics aside. the musical value of the Beatles mono albums requires a fan to have some version of them.
 
rbbert said:
"Audiophile" type sound quality metrics aside. the musical value of the Beatles mono albums requires a fan to have some version of them.
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What you talking about Willis? The "musical value" of the mono albums is the same as the musical value of the stereo albums. So unless you are saying there is no musical value to owning Beatles albums in general, you are out to lunch.
 
Better spend some more time listening to the music on the monos, Mark. There are more than a few different takes, different mixes (obviously), extended and truncated versions, and as you've already noted some little details that are much more noticeable on the monos than the stereos. My point which I thought was obvious (see post #10) is that a Beatles fan is missing much of their best music if he doesn't have some version of the mono albums.
 
rbbert said:
Better spend some more time listening to the music on the monos, Mark. There are more than a few different takes, different mixes (obviously), extended and truncated versions, and as you've already noted some little details that are much more noticeable on the monos than the stereos. My point which I thought was obvious (see post #10) is that a Beatles fan is missing much of their best music if he doesn't have some version of the mono albums.
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Sorry Rob, you are 100% correct. I misinterpreted your post by 180 degrees. My apologies brother.
 
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