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The Best Sounding Beatles CDs

Give me your opinions. To date, which are the best sounding Beatles CDs? I'm aware of the Rolltop box sets, the Original Master Reordings, the Japanese imports, The Parlaphone remasters...... But I have never heard a single one.

I have always listened to them on vinyl. I had the MFSL set, The Parlaphone Blue box set (My personal favorite), The Red Mono box set and several other versions. But I've never heard the CD versions.

Which CD versions sound the best?
buscis2
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buscis2 OP
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"I don't think it gets much worse than "Aja" and "Sticky Fingers" unless you happen to have the 8 track."

That statement would have 100% validity until you listen to the MFSL version of Al Stewarts "Year Of The Cat".

I think they recorded that album using a kerosene powered mixing console and transfered the music signal between two tomato soup cans with a piece of string as an interconnect.

They then transferred the signal to the master cutter using smoke signals.

That (at least) added a limited degree of warmth.
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ozzy
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The US Capitol box set is very good.
cyclonicman
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None of the CDs sound as good as vinyl. The Parlophone cd's were released in 1987 when cd technology was young and most of the early cd's from that period did not sound very good. I think that the best sounding Beatles CD is probably Revolver followed closely by Help and Abbey Road. Also the first four on Parlophone, Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's NIght, and Beatles for Sale were issued in Mono only.
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