The Beatles Revolver

@vair68robert  +1

Back in the day all the tens, hundreds (?) of snippets of taped musical components of a Beatles' song were individually mixed on 4 track and then "bounced down",  enabling more musical elements to be added, which inevitably degraded the overall SQ.

Giles Martin has been able to sync the original, first generation tapes directly to 100+ channel mixing boards and the results, to my ears, is superb. 

Sgt. Pepper on BluRay is the pinnacle of audio quality as played through my system.....and if you've never heard Ringo's uncompressed drums I encourage you to seek it out.

If the re-jiggered sound is offensively different than what you remember when the music was originally released, then most certainly ignore it.....just don't restrict my choice to enjoy it. 

(apologies if I've wrongly described the recording process)

@richardmathes The values of Beatles as artists in the ‘60s and the values of corporations in the 2020s are two different things.

To say one is besmirching the Beatles as mere capitalists when one criticizes the motives of corporations in the 2020s is a conflation.

The issue at hand when someone says, “it’s all about the money” is the relentless exploitation of the Beatles’ music by questionable means by corporations, not the Beatles’ personal values themselves.

The values of corporations in the 60’s were little different than those of today. You only have to look at the greed of Eisenhower’s military-industrial complex during Vietnam. Nothing’s new.

Sorry, Mr. Musturd, but I don’t see "endless exploitation" of The Beatles for money, nor do believe that the surviving Beatles have or would permit it. They seem to still have a hand in how their legacy is handled, and if cutting-edge can continue to add something to their music, I believe they are all in. After all, the fulfillment of their music’s potential happened in the studio.

Scratch that. Never mind the sorry part.

Would you argue that Free As a Bird was motivated by exploitation?

God knows greed is abundant. That doesn’t mean that it’s universal. Life isn’t the black and white of Revolver, it’s the color of Sgt. Pepper’s.

It wasn't Eisenhower's military-industrial complex. Eisenhower warned AGAINST the military-industrial complex...

The Revolver album sounds great as is.......just another money making over dubbed remix.