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Post by Beatle Bob on Feb 6, 2010 15:15:31 GMT -5
What a surprise today!!!! Two new Dr. Ebbetts releases just arrived that are free gifts to the faithful supporters over the years for their support. It’s part of a new “ARCHIVE SERIES”: - PLEASE PLEASE ME (UK stereo LP) (ARCHIVE SERIES) – sourced from a first-issue LP- REVOLVER (UK mono LP) (mono matrix pressing) (ARCHIVE SERIES) – sourced from a first-issue LP – including the withdrawn mix of “Tomorrow Never Knows” What’s cool is that these two releases are exactly as the Beatles and George Martin released them, with PLEASE PLEASE ME restoring duophonic stereo tracks (such as “Love Me Do”) and the recording anomalies that were eliminated from the new remasters. It rights a few wrongs. I can’t thank him enough for sending me these new discs. I’m sure the others that are still on his mailing list will be just as surprised and excited about receiving these special gifts. I’m glad the fire still burns in his desire to do needle drops—with continued emphasis on crisp detailed reproduction of the album’s artwork and the discs themselves replicating the Parlophone label and font w/ track listings that comes in new style jewel cases that resemble DVD-A jewel cases. Wow! It brings an element of class to his work. These are still superior to EMI/Capitol in every way shape and form. Factory made discs/artwork never look this freakin' good. AMAZING! He takes it to a new level each and every time! I can’t just imagine the expense he’s enduring to manufacture and mail these as free gifts . I’ll post a review as soon as possible with much detail. Regards, Beatle Bob
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Post by Beatle Bob on Feb 6, 2010 18:42:41 GMT -5
The jewel cases, opened. Regards, Beatle Bob Attachments:
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Post by Steve Marinucci on Feb 6, 2010 20:39:07 GMT -5
Bob: I thought he announced his retirement before the remasters came out.
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Post by winstonoboogie on Feb 6, 2010 21:50:32 GMT -5
Great, Beatle Bob, rub it in, rub it in... Just kidding, BB. Good for you!
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Post by Beatle Bob on Feb 6, 2010 22:55:03 GMT -5
Bob: I thought he announced his retirement before the remasters came out. Right now there is no word if he's coming back full-steam as he operated. Like I said, this is a gift (free) to all who have faithfully supportered him over the many years. Personally I wish he would be back in operation like he was, but based on issues that arose before the remasters were released I don't think he plans to operate as before. I have no idea--though these new releases (free gifts) were unexpected and wonderful. I can't thank him enough! Regards, Beatle Bob
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2018 14:00:41 GMT -5
It would've been interesting to hear what the Doc could've done if he'd procured a 1969 Toshiba Japan REEL TO REEL copy of a stereo REVOLVER tape. The Japanese one is the only one of its kind with the U.K. track listing...in *stereo*...and at a speed of 7 1/2 inches-per-second (the British one was mono -at a slower speed- and the three American ones originally issued are, obviously, different). Toshiba, for example, must've(?) held licensing rights to the Beatles recordings marketed in Japan. They were releasing a lot of what one would call "audiophile-grade format" recordings even in the late-'60s (they'd once made, too, a commercial reel to reel copy of ABBEY ROAD:from the *same* source the much coveted "Black Triangle" cd would be mastered from 14 years later). Theoretically, if one had a good single-disc CD-R still (such as an early 2000s Marantz or Tascam machine...before the models became outsourced to low-end manufacturing operations) and one had a pretty good source playback chain...ANYBODY could do the same thing the Dr. did (the only difficulty would be the approx. $2500 cost of finding vintage, NON VINYL copies of a particular title to duplicate discs from). This was just something I took note of when I saw the Dr.'s "Millennium Collection" of the Capitol albums taken from vintage reel to reel tapes and, how (apparently?) the Dr.'s cover art had suggested that he'd used a Revox PR-99 deck to transfer them to CD-R.
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