As primarily a Beatles fan I too yearned for better sound quality from my records as my system improved. Unfortunately the EMI / Hayes plant wasn't all it could be, and the recordings themselves suffered from a little too much 'bouncing down' from take to take.
Much later upon hearing various Kinks and Rolling Stones records I realised that the Beatles records actually sounded great in comparison. At least EMI / Abbey Road / George Martin insisted upon some kind of a standard for those initial recordings. You can't say the same for everyone else as the recording culture here in the UK was such that pop music was hardly taken seriously for decades.
Basically the Stones 60s output ( Brian Jones era) is listenable but don't expect sonic excellence. I loved my UK copy of Rolled Gold on vinyl for the music without caring too much for the sound. It was/is a little murky with crushed bandwidth but it's OK.
Much later upon hearing various Kinks and Rolling Stones records I realised that the Beatles records actually sounded great in comparison. At least EMI / Abbey Road / George Martin insisted upon some kind of a standard for those initial recordings. You can't say the same for everyone else as the recording culture here in the UK was such that pop music was hardly taken seriously for decades.
Basically the Stones 60s output ( Brian Jones era) is listenable but don't expect sonic excellence. I loved my UK copy of Rolled Gold on vinyl for the music without caring too much for the sound. It was/is a little murky with crushed bandwidth but it's OK.