The Beatles on iTunes: we can’t work it out

[Rik]

They very same. (YT is working!)

[pctech]

(YT is working!)

Yee-ha!

[drummer]

People are used to that in this day and age, tbh as you get older you hearing does fade, but a really good turntable and amp, and music really sings, depending on what it is of course.

And that's why you shouldn't dismiss the remastered mono recordings.

I schlepped over to a friend's house and we listened to the original (mono) vinyl using a Pink Triangle turntable, a Musical Fidelity power amp,  two MF preamps and Mordaunt-Short speakers.  Stunning is what it was.

Then we did the same thing with the remastered CDs using a Musical Fidelity CD player with the same rig and it was just as stunning but without the crackle, pops and hiss.

These have been remastered to represent exactly what George Martin and the Beatles wanted people to hear.  Seriously, you'd be very hard-pressed to spot the difference (apart from the crackles, pops and hiss).  If you like the "warmth" of analogue, you won't be disappointed with these remasters.

Early CD releases of older albums were a disaster because the industry couldn't be bothered to do the research - it was a new income stream from old stock and the less money spent, the better.  Genuine remasters change all that.

[Gary]

And that's why you shouldn't dismiss the remastered mono recordings.

I schlepped over to a friend's house and we listened to the original (mono) vinyl using a Pink Triangle turntable, a Musical Fidelity power amp,  two MF preamps and Mordaunt-Short speakers.  Stunning is what it was.

Then we did the same thing with the remastered CDs using a Musical Fidelity CD player with the same rig and it was just as stunning but without the crackle, pops and hiss.

These have been remastered to represent exactly what George Martin and the Beatles wanted people to hear.  Seriously, you'd be very hard-pressed to spot the difference (apart from the crackles, pops and hiss).  If you like the "warmth" of analogue, you won't be disappointed with these remasters.

Early CD releases of older albums were a disaster because the industry couldn't be bothered to do the research - it was a new income stream from old stock and the less money spent, the better.  Genuine remasters change all that.

I used to have a Roksan Radius piped through a NAD amp and Tannoy floor standing speakers, vinyl sounded so good 

[drummer]

CD is not lossless.
... oops. It's considered lossless at over 1400kbps.
From wiki though "224–320 kbit/s – VBR to highest MP3 quality. 320 kbit/s comparable, virtually indistinguishable to CD quality".
But CD is not lossless.

CDA isn't measured by kbps and the Red Book standard defines it as "two-channel 16-bit Linear PCM sampled at 44,100 Hz".

[drummer]

I used to have a Roksan Radius piped through a NAD amp and Tannoy floor standing speakers, vinyl sounded so good 

Oh, don't get me started!  When we'd finished with the chin-stroking Beatles exercise, he shoved Abraxas on the turntable and the world briefly became a better place.

Hey ho.

[zappaDPJ]

Abraxas always was and still is one of the best pieces of vinyl I've ever heard.

[Niall]

I used to have a Roksan Radius piped through a NAD amp and Tannoy floor standing speakers, vinyl sounded so good 

My sisters other half has what could be considered a cheap NAD amp but the sound quality through that thing is second to none. I honestly haven't heard anything through a warmer sounding amp. All the other amps I've heard that are more modern seem to be a bit clinical. Still, I haven't had a great deal of experience in amps, other than guitar amps so there probably are better amps around for your hi-fi but I haven't heard one.