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  2. Beatles albums remastered soon?

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    Through the internet. That's why you never know. You should hear the mix tracks for the White Album!

    It's tough but leaks do happen. In this particular case, I can't call it yet.

    EDIT: In all honesty, I thought at least a full album would have leaked about a month ago. No news on a complete album yet though. :(

    Who knows, it may have been through Rock Band.

    I've been through the Beatles Anthology release where they had the master tapes flown from the UK to America in a handcuffed briefcase, the workers in the warehouse had to wear sweats (so they couldn't sneak out any copies), and guards escorting the trucks to the customers.

  3. Beatles albums remastered soon?

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    while I am interested in the remasters if they sound like Let It Be (Naked) or Love then the LPs will still be better. Love had bette separation but the tone was all wrong, while I do not have the greatest collection of rare stuff I'll take the purple chicks (mp3s) over most of the stuff I have heard, yeah its 320 kps but you for many songs you get the separate track of the 4 track for Pepper and Revolver and can remix if you like.

    I just dropped Pepper (red mono Japan) to 24/96 and so far it is my favorite. That japanese vinyl is super quiet but the LP master job could have been warmer. Probably done on SS gear in 86.

    I'm interested in the vinyl versions, especially since they went with RTI over Rainbo. But I need to find some space for my turntable at the moment.

  4. Beatles albums remastered soon?

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    Honestly - I don't know. Here is my reasoning:

    TRUE:

    The internet is massive and if you know enough people and have enough contacts, you can get anything. I know for a fact that some of the remastered tracks have been out since more than a year. There are no official promo CD's AFIK, but there are some CD-R's that have been going from point to point. What's to say these guys over in Argentina received these CD-R's or a copy of them. Could be given the accessibility of the internet. As far as I can hear, they do have more a digital edge and they don't sound like vinyl rips.

    HOAX:

    With primitive sound equipment or low level plug-ins, you can do A LOT if you know how to use the equipment correctly. I consider my set-up to be rather low compared to some Hollywood Studios. Capitol Records has a cache of goods with EQ's that cost over 10k and other stuff that I can only dream of owning. I know a guy who went there to master an album and according to him, I got a much better sound using my gear than he did using what they had there. So, if these guys are clever, you can easily get the original CD's and EQ them, limit them and compress them to sound like remasters.

    Also, notice that most USA radio stations don't have them yet. They are set to be delivered to radio stations on 9-01-09. I know some HARDCORE fans who haven't even heard the remasters aside from the Amazon samples and those are too low in quality to really be decisive about them.

    So...who knows. I'm happy with what I have but will leave final judgment on the remasters once I hear them in lossless sound quality.

    If anyone had a copy of the remasters before they are supposed to, it would definitely not be taken lightly. Security has always been extremely tight with anything related to the Beatles, extreme security measures such as video cameras everywhere and armed guards, etc. And I'm sure this will be no exception.

  5. Beatles albums remastered soon?

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    I can't wait for these to come out. I haven't heard them, but according to my boss who is a major Beatle maniac, they sound great. He's ordered the mono boxset and is deciding on if he should buy the stereo boxset or discs seperately, because he has the Beatles Box Of Vision on order.

  14. Anyone ever forget something on a plane?

    in Off Topic

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    Sucks big time Steve but I give about zero chance of recovery. :( I do have lots of cassette tapes in case you want some new tunes to check out onthe Nakamichi. Let me know and I can send you a package.

    Hey Al, I'm sure you're right. It must have been someone's lucky day, just not mine.

    If I need some tapes, I'll let you know. Thanks for the offer.

    I'm in Hawaii now. Things are much better after eating at the Diamond Head Market & Grill, really good Kalbi and rice.

  15. Anyone ever forget something on a plane?

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    Bummer Steve,

    I will try to help cheer you up when you return from Il. in August. Wait, you are surrounded by music at work, hmmmm. ;)

    Unfortunately, we're outsouring our distribution to Sony, so our warehouse in Camarillo is bare, and we're working on cleaning out the warehouse in Illinois.

    I did find a Nakamichi MR-1 tape deck that I asked if I could have.

    After listening to Ti's Nakamichi Dragon at CanJam, I thought I'd give it a listen.

    I have the Beatles and Paul McCartney on cassette, I'll see how it sounds.

  19. Anyone ever forget something on a plane?

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    I was traveling back home on a business trip and put my electronics away which included my imod, pico and x10 headphones into its case. I put it into the pouch in front of my seat and forgot to take it out.

    I didn't realize I had left it on the plane, until I got home that night :palm:

    I've called the airline baggage service who told me to call lost & found.

    I called lost & found and left my name, number, description, etc. and the message said they would call if they found my lost article.

    I don't give it much of a chance of turning up :(

    Anyone else have any similar experiences?

  20. JH Audio stuffs

    in Portable Audio

    Posted

    Yeah, Kathy Peck did two sets of impressions for me at canjam - one for Ultimate Ears and one fo Jerry Harvey.

    Kathy Peck did my impressions at CanJam and my UE4 turned out perfect, great fit. I really like the UE4, but I did listen to the JH13 at CanJam and know what I'm missing :(

  23. Grado HF-2 thread

    in Headphones

    Posted

    Hi zippy, could you please elaborate, how does the HF-2 compare to the W5000?

    The HF-2 and W5000 are completely different headphones.

    The HF-2 are open headphones with a good punchy bass, well balanced presentation, smaller headstage. They are definitely more forward sounding than the W5000. To me they are more fun to listen to and sound great with some classic rock.

    The W5000 are closed and very comfortable to wear, but can have some fit issues depending upon the size of your head. The W5000 are a bit lacking in the bass, so the mids and highs tend to stand out more. The detail retreival is great and work well with classical, some jazz and female vocals.

    I like them both, but they sound very different.

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