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On 14/11/2012, Tom Fine wrote: > http://www.analogplanet.com/content/abbey-road-studios-sean-magee-talks-about-mastering-beatles-lp-box > > Fremer has a bunch of pre-conceived notions, so the interview can be > grating, but some interesting details emerged: > > 1. pressing for North America at Rainbo in California: > http://www.rainborecords.com/vinyl.htm > > 2. pressing in Europe is at Optimal Media in Germany: > http://www.optimal-media.com/en/press/vinyl > > 3. the 44.1/24-bit masters were used. I think what Sean Magee said > about the USB drive is not true. I've loaded both the CD and the USB > tracks into the computer and compared dynamics and the USB files are > less compressed. The 2009 CDs weren't exactly toothpasted, but they > are noticeably "make it louder" compared to the USB, playing both back > in Foobar2000. The mono CD box set was claimed to be straight > transfers, no extra compression, from the mono Parlophone master > tapes. "Uncompressed" for Beatles is not very dynamic (see next > point). They were baking in a lot of dynamics control with their mono > mixes (and stereo mixes for the later albums). > The problem with the Beatles is that their "Master Tapes" are not master tapes but second or third generation copies, because of the bouncing down. I don't see how good sound can ever be extracted from them. Regards -- Don Cox [log in to unmask]