Abbey road might have had a hands off policy for the mono cd edition in terms of compression but there was still a distinct digital tension that ran throughout with an unfortunate upper mid hardening.
The beatles vinyl stereo vs mono.
The beatles mono vs.
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There is an incredible amount of info in the internet regarding mono vs stereo including people making track by track playlists of which song is best in stereo or mono but the general consensus amongst most beatles fans is that you should go mono when available at least up to the white.
The beatles catalog finally got remastered on september 9th.
For similar eq reasons i then compared the mono vinyl edition with the beatles in mono cd version.
The airplane overdubs occur in different places on the mono and stereo versions.
The mono version has a louder piano a yell after the opening plane sound and drumbeats under the closing plane sound.
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9 apple and emi will release all of the beatles albums newly remastered and sounding better than ever.
On the other hand mono pressings from 1967 and 1968 are comparatively scarce and in some cases exceedingly rare and a few mono titles from major artists of that time such as the beatles the doors the monkees elvis presley and jimi hendrix sell for quite a bit more than their stereo counterparts today.