My Beatles Quest: Best Sounding LP's

The ice is kinda thin (there she goes again on today of all days!) but we can live with the odd comment about how they sound compared to either 'regular' Cd or vinyl but that's about it. Certainly not promoting or posting links to the many copies out there.
Let's call an end to this DR E discussion stuff and keep with finding the best Beatles vinyl, eh?

 

Thank You Candy

 

Tone,
While I love hunting done the nicest copies of vinyl that I can find as well as feel that it's affordable especially on Ebay for all of my older vinyl copies that I want or just I missed when they were released from other countries or stuff like MFSL.
I can pretty much assure you though that 99.9% of the stuff you see being sold on Ebay on CD that associates itself as being from Dr Ebbetts. In fact it is not.
So don't ever buy any of that crap that makes claims using the name Dr Ebbetts or D.E.S.S. on Ebay that is sold on a CD. This junk comes from either Russia or some other far eastern country. Ebbetts does not sell his titles on Ebay.

 

Sorry Candy, I didn't see or read your above comment before my last post.
I'm with you, as far as just talking about the best vinyl copies that can be had and the ones that also have some different mixes or better mastering and pressings.

 

Red Odeon? Where from?

 

While I'm at it, a question: I saw a 1969 Y/B stereo pressing of Oldies but Goldies, I believe it was -1G/-1G stampers. How does it compare to the 1966 pressing? Is it worth getting? I already have a 1966 UK mono pressing which is very punchy.

 

I know this is off topic, but my search keeps leading to these threads and I can't think of a better place to ask this.

Assuming that the original lacquers for all the Beatles albums are probably in storage somewhere, still in reasonably good condition... is there any reason why you couldn't strike new metalwork from them? In other words - instead of remastering the Beatles catalog for vinyl, why not just re-press a new batch from the original "tube" cuts?

 

France?

 

Japan. The 1982 Red-vinyl Mono Series. Anyone hear of these?

 

Maybe he's thinking of the master, or mother?

 

Right, he was thinking of the metal parts.

 

I wonder what becomes of these myself. Could you imagine tube-cut re-presses of all the titles in mono and stereo?

 

Well, yes, I know that if a recut is done it's because the metal parts are worn out. I was just addressing the fine point from the previous poster.

 

I do too, but it is my own wishful thinking that there would be some left in usable shape.

 

That's was I was thinking indeed. I have many of these, the LSO series, and I couldn't figure what was so good about these (not that there's anything wrong with them either).

 

The Red Japan Mono's(EMI/Odeon, as the pic I posted above) were done from the tube cuts, or was there another run in the 1980's. of U.K. Parlophone monos???

 

Those are 80s Japanese pressings. They are fairly common though expensive.
They sound very good, though a bit brighter than the UK 80s Mono pressing, and they also sound a bit compressed to my ears.

Those Japanese issues were released twice, in '82 & '86. The '82s have an "M" in the Matrix #, the '86s a "D" in the Matrix #. Many feel that the '82s sound slightly better.

They do sound very close to the original Y & B Parlophone cuts, but not as warm IMO.

 

I've been rebuying Beatles lps for the last year or two and now have a complete set of decent Y&B monos. I've also got all those Dr. Ebbetts discs. I've done needle drops of my vinyl and compared them to the Ebbetts and really like the tonality (is that a word?) of my needledrops better. They just seem a whole lot warmer. However, some of the original Brit monos just don't sound that spectacular to begin with.

 

I don't think they were pressing any Yellow and Black labels in 1969. But the -1G stamper on the 2 Box Black EMI sounds very close to the original pressing, and Much cheaper, and easier to find.

Though the vinyl is thinner.

 

Steve,

What I meant was, were the red mono Japan 1982 LP's cut using the UK tube cut stampers, or were there mono Parlophone UK re-issues of the original tube-cut monos in the UK, in the early 80's?

I understand that every lacquer cut after 1969 at EMI(Abbey Road) was transistor.