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2010 14 Mar

The Beatles Remastered Stereo Box Set

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The Beatles are definitely not a “greatest hits” type of band. You can not order just the “best of” album and be done with the lads from Liverpool. I think most of their greatest tracks were not their number one hits but were their more experimental tunes such as “Strawberry Fields Forever.”

To truly get a feel for The Beatles music you have to listen to their CDs completely instead of only listening to their biggest hit songs. I’m not alone in believing that the Fab Four made quite a few of the most timeless albums of all time and even their not so fantastic albums (like With The Beatles) have some fantastic recordings.

This is why I think it’s such a great idea to Buy The Remastered Beatles Stereo Box Set. This box set contains every LP (and every single on the Past Masters CDs) that they recorded and released in the 60s.


In other words it contains pretty much all of their releases except for The Anthologies and the Live at the BBC set. This seems right to me since those releases are not really a part of “the official catalog” of The Beatles. They are kind of like the “extra features” on a DVD while the original releases are the main movie.

Actually, there are a few more of their CDs that are not included in the box set, for example there’s 1999 release of a CD called Yellow Submarine Songtrack that’s completely different from the original Yellow Submarine LP. It is actually much better in my opinion and worth hearing for it’s different mixes (it’s actually remixed, not just remastered.) Let It Be… Naked and Love are also not included.

With The Beatles in Stereo, I also highly recommend that you Buy The Beatles Mono Box Set which includes the the mono versions of their songs up through 1968. It may be hard to really understand in the 21st century, but when George Martin and the boys were mixing their albums they thought the mono version to be of much more importance when compared to the stereo versions up until about 1969.

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2009 26 Nov

The Beatles Remastered In 2009

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The Beatles legendary LPs were first remastered digitally for compact disc back in the 1980s at that time digital mastering was still a relatively new art and since then plenty has been found out about how to remaster best but most important is the incredible rate in technological advance over the past 20 years.

The many forward movements in digital mastering and all of the knowledge learned on how to most effectively create digital remasters have been put to use with the remastered Beatles releases of 2009. On September 9 The Beatles released both The Beatles Remastered Stereo Box Set and The Beatles in Mono. And both of these box sets sound great. If you have not yet heard them then I recommend that you hear The Beatles remastered as soon as possible.

Which flavor of remastered Beatles should a Beatles fan buy? Well for myself the answer was definitely “all of the above” but if you have to choose just one you will probably go with the stereo box set since it includes all 13 of their studio albums and most folks will prefer listening to the stereo mixes in comparison to the mono mixes.


The Beatles in Mono is more for hardcore fans who want to hear all of the differences between the stereo & mono mixes (and with some songs they are quite different) and for fans who want to hear the lads from Liverpool how they originally heard them (this obviously applies to older fans who were there for The Beatles in person in the 1960s.)

As of December 8, 2009 there’s a third choice: The Beatles USB Flash Drive. This USB stick includes the Beatles entire stereo remastered box set in a little stick that fits in the palm of my hand. Isn’t that cool? And it includes all of the albums in two formats; better than CD quality 24bit FLAC and 320kbps mp3s.

That “better than CD quality” bit is what will excite a good number of audiophiles but for most it is the 320kbps mp3s that will that’ll be added to the iPod.

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