Stephen_Ri
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Are there any Velvet Underground or Nick Drake boxsets? I suppose those are the only artists whose catalogs number three or more that I actually like. I would buy the beatles mono box, but with others above, I agree that it's simply too expensive.
Also, I think some members of the forum are under the impression that ideal "audiophile" mastering of an album originally recorded to tape is doing a straight transfer from the master tapes to digital. While this has been done, the results are not ideal--to the best of my knowledge, the audiophile labels like MFSL, Audio Fidelity, DCC, etc., don't do it that way. They tweak the sound so that it is best suited for presentation from the CD format. I also feel that the folks who remastered the beatles catalog for CD did a great job, and suspect that they have never sounded as good as now. Blathering LP fanatics will take note that even Dr. Ebbetts, the best known of the needledroppers, closed his operation when he heard them and admitted they sound better than anything he'd done. And he had tracked down the very best virgin LP pressings. But then the discerning audiophile community I'm sure knows more from a few diagrams about compression than Dr. Ebbetts or whole mastering teams.
Also, I think some members of the forum are under the impression that ideal "audiophile" mastering of an album originally recorded to tape is doing a straight transfer from the master tapes to digital. While this has been done, the results are not ideal--to the best of my knowledge, the audiophile labels like MFSL, Audio Fidelity, DCC, etc., don't do it that way. They tweak the sound so that it is best suited for presentation from the CD format. I also feel that the folks who remastered the beatles catalog for CD did a great job, and suspect that they have never sounded as good as now. Blathering LP fanatics will take note that even Dr. Ebbetts, the best known of the needledroppers, closed his operation when he heard them and admitted they sound better than anything he'd done. And he had tracked down the very best virgin LP pressings. But then the discerning audiophile community I'm sure knows more from a few diagrams about compression than Dr. Ebbetts or whole mastering teams.