I have one Beatles CD (the Yellow Submarine soundtrack) that was remastered much more recently than the rest. Sound-quality wise, it absolutely stomps the others into the dirt. (Since I also have Sgt. Pepper, and since the two CDs have some songs in common, I have had a chance to directly A/B them. The difference is not at all subtle, in fact it is night and day!)Man, when is this ever going to stop? Being about the same age as the Beatles, I had the original LPs (some albums were worn out & replaced), then the CDs, then the "Anthology" DVDs. Can't imagine what the big difference is going to be with another version of these recordings Guess I'm just to old to be a groupie any more.
The remastering done for the Yellow Submarine Songtrack involved going back to the original multitrack master tapes and converting them to digital, and then mixing them, so there was no loss of fidelity in the mixing. With the original release, the mixing was all done in analog, so the mixdown added distortion of various kinds.
That pretty much sums it up. I have purchased the Brain recordings of the Mozart Horn Concerti on CD 3 times, because they have remastered it twice since the first CD release, and each time, it is slightly better than before. With the first remaster, they added bonus tracks, and also, I gave my old versions away to friends, so that helped me to "justify" the expense. I doubt I will ever buy it again, no matter what they do to improve it. But maybe they will come out with a deluxe multi-disc set of all of his recordings, and then I might be tempted...in 2011 all the beatles albums will be available on RED ray, (better than blu ray,,didnt you hear?) then 2016 "Holographic Sound". 2020 "DBI" (direct brain injection...duh.) etc, etc, etc
"so now i have a googlephonic stereo, with a moon rock needle.....not bad for a car stereo........wouldnt want it in my house...."....steve martin.
