Beatles Remasters Review #6: MONO

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In which I get my paws on the Mono Box, and am rendered speechless. Life as I know it has changed somehow.

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Music

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• beatles
• remasters
• mono
• box
• stereo
• lennon
• mccartney
• alan
• parsons
• john
• montagna

[PAVI259]

Why didn't you just install the mono CDs to your computer before returning it to it's owner?

[johnmontagnamusic]

@PAVI259 Because I wanted the booklets, etc.



[PAVI259]

That's a really nice Hofner you have :)

[johnmontagnamusic]

@PAVI259 It's actually a copy, made by "Carlo Robelli." Plays like a dream, though!

[TheMichaelseymour]

Listin .......be a bit naughty ....re-borrow his mono box - then just swap the discs - photoy copy new disc adhesives ...! SHAZAM ! .....woops !....i forgot -y'll only get away with it untill he hears it again ...and he'll never be your mate again - so - whatever you do - DONT listin to me . GREAT REVIEW , ta !

[johnmontagnamusic]

@TheMichaelseymour actually, i got my own mono box for christmas later that year so it's all good!

[Uzzerrrname]

I want that Mono Box!! Heard Pepper in mono about 4 months ago and it blew me away. Pepper is definitly meant to be heard in mono. Great page Judd!

[johnmontagnamusic]

@VASINGER patsy's great. did you sit thru the entire video anyway?

[NEWJohnLennon]

I feel srry for everyone who got a fake mono box, because I just got mine, and It is perfectly fine.. And I have the worst luck...

[huntr7777]

Because everything was "compressed" to one speaker it comes across as more powerful than the stereo version. Listen to "Revolution" in mono, a lot more powerful than the stereo version for the same reason.

Let me add more fuel to the debate of mono vs stereo...as the story goes the Beatles were there when George Martin did the mono mixdown, and after that George did his own stereo mix. So purists will argue the mono mixes are the "true" mixes. Of course arguments start over that.

[caesarcerf]

totaldrambeatles the point is not better or worse but different. however as an audio engineer let me tell you that stereo is an illusion "pan left, pan right."

[caesarcerf]

toldaram - no idea what you mean.

[totaldrambeatles22]

@caesarcerf no MP3 replace specific incorrect mono mixes is the way to go

[totaldrambeatles22]

@johnmontagnamusic did you hear the song revolution in mono or lucy in the sky with diamonds

[totaldrambeatles22]

@Uzzerrrname get the box don't let anything stop you from getting the box make sure listen to mono masters the white album and revolver in mono they sound great many people hate mono white album but that is my favorite version of the album

[totaldrambeatles22]

i don't really like it when people say that mono i general sounds better than stereo in general that its not "spread apart" the beatles and bob dylan were both meant to be heard in mono as you get to hear the studio advance with the beatles the technology in the music in mono is much more high advanced and superior stereo is better than mono when you talk about bands from the 70's like pink floyd and led zeppelin thumbs up if anyone agree's

[caesarcerf]

the biggest difference is that mono mixes all sound far more 'forward.' even after compression. by forward i mean the sounds, particularly vocals sound closer to you than a stereo mix.

[caesarcerf]

the stereo mixes were rarely 'totally' from the mono mixes however there were enough differences to make a large qualitative difference.

vinyl is definitely the way to go for those who want to hear a large to huge difference.