The Best Sounding Beatles CDs

"how bout the RED and BLUE comps on Vinyl? Decent sound?"

Horrible.

I had owned them in Blue and Red Vinyl just to have as a novelty. The recordings (even pressed on good vinyl) were horrible.

Once again, In terms of original vinyl recordings, the Parlaphones were incredible. The MOFI Black box set (on JVC virgin vinyl) were O.K., but they were smile curved and had an annoying 60hz buzz in the background. See link below:

http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/archive/index.php/t-36865.html

Hi Jax. My primary concern is in terms of CD sonics, mix and remastering quality.

I'm coming from a tough standard having listened to these albums on vinyl.

Narrod, you seem absolutely passionate in your convictions towards this collection. I also try to remain a purist in terms of "novelty" recordings.

But I'm gonna give this one a shot. I'll let you know of my impressions afterwards.

This of course after I do the following.......

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1051384332&openmine&zzBuscis2&4&5#Buscis2

What do any of you think about the MFSL editions?

"I own every MFSL vinyl and for the most part they suck."

Pretty much.

And I find their CDs to be bright and edgy. But I also find the same results with many of the Japanese imports. Europe, for some reason produces some very fine recordings. Original Parlophone was wonderful. Duestche Grammaphone and Telarc are also very high quality recordings. Some of the original RCA "Red Seal" were also good quality.

However, MFSL recordings always seem to exhibit one type of an issue or another. Considering the fact that they are suppose to be "Audiophile Recordings", I find it interesting that the Standard issue Parlophones blow the MFSLs out of the water.

"I don't think it gets much worse than "Aja" and "Sticky Fingers" unless you happen to have the 8 track."

That statement would have 100% validity until you listen to the MFSL version of Al Stewarts "Year Of The Cat".

I think they recorded that album using a kerosene powered mixing console and transfered the music signal between two tomato soup cans with a piece of string as an interconnect.

They then transferred the signal to the master cutter using smoke signals.

That (at least) added a limited degree of warmth.