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Best sounding Beatles albums

I'm looking for Beatles on vinyl to replace the original pressing records my aunt lent me some years ago (She wants 'em back, so to speak). I was going to go for some of the new Japanese pressings but after reading reviews from Fremer, etc. I am thinking this is not the best route.

Does anyone know what the best sounding pressings are (not the individual titles) and where to get them? Also if anyone has info on how much they should go for that would be helpful too.

As always, thanks fellow A'goners for any useful info. THis continues to be a great sight and forum.

Chris
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tfkaudio
591 posts
 
Look for the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab Beatles albums. They are the best available at any price.
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thaluza
280 posts
 
I have the MFSL version of Abbey Road and the Blue Box version too. In my system, which consists of all tube gear and a VPI Aries II Black Knight, the MFSL version sounds distant and is quite bloated in the bass. I prefer the Blue Box version by a large margin.
tigermtn
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I'm not the biggest Beatles maven or vinyl junkie, but I would direct your attention to the Anthology sets, particularly Anthology II. These benefit from attentive remastering and the fact that the master tapes haven't been beaten to hell over the last 40 years. I only have them on CD, but they sound quite fresh.
tfkaudio
591 posts
 
I agree with Thaluza that "Abbey Road" wasn't the best of the MFSL recordings. The best of the MFSL, in my opinion, are the early albums. "Please Please Me" is absolutely fantastic. So is "Help". "With The Beatles" is also very fine, but extremely hard to find.
cbmc
2 posts
 
I think that the MFSL Rubber Soul sounds pretty good.
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