Listening to the new Beatles Revolver remix/master released yesterday. Giles and co. have done a spectacular job yet again! There is SO much detail in those original tapes.
Like the other recent remix/master Beatles albums, Sir Paul's bass work is much more clear, but the clarity of vocals is maybe the biggest improvement with this latest effort. Eleanor Rigby sounds like it was recorded yesterday.
This is a must-listen!
If you want to grab this as a digital copy, I recommend you get it here, and NOT from a lossy streaming service. You can choose either AIFF or FLAC lossless files.
5-Disc Super Deluxe Set:
https://www.prostudiomasters.com/album/page/155812
Original 14-track album only:
https://www.prostudiomasters.com/album/page/155210
@voltronic yeah my first year or so of legit digital music was through Amazon music and now listening to them is... Painful to say the least.
Who you get your digital music from matters, so I wholeheartedly endorse your message.
@Hobyrim
Not all lossy-compressed music sounds bad, but the few things I bought from Amazon always sounded a bit harsh to me. There can often be big differences depending on what codecs are used for compression.
I now will only buy lossless for digital music, or <gasp> CDs.
@voltronic there can. But I had one album I adored from Max Graham, and it had a short silence on the end track.
Whatever Amazon used when they captured the album straight up truncated everything after that short pause.
Years later, it's still wrong. Luckily I found the album for cheap at a local shop and ripped it myself.
But lesson learned.
@Hobyrim
You have to be careful with the lossless music stores too, although I think people who are buying those files know to check them. Maybe 10 years or so ago, HDTracks got caught selling 24/96 and 24/192 files (at different price points) that were just upsamples of 16/44 originals. All it took was a quick scan with a spectrum analyzer to see there was no information beyond 22 kHz and they were caught.