Thanks a lot for this great video. I really enjoy it. I read in the comments, that someone complained about that your channel is just another Beatles channel. I am grateful for this! you do very well researched videos with an extremely high knowledge of the stuff you are talking. I really appreciate your thorough deep dives.So, please carry on with that! Now to Please Please Me: I fully agree that the 70th German pressing with -2/-2 matrix sounds best. But I also love the 2012 stereo remasters on vinyl. Its bad reputation is unjustified in my opinion. Inspired by your video, I compared my 2009 mono CD with the 1988 digitally sources LP version (never got the CD). Very similar to your experience, there is hardly any difference to hear. I think, the bad reputation, the early 1987 Beatles CDs and LPs have, is quite unfair. At my system (not an audiophile system, but a good HiFi) they do sound great... I guess, fans had been very disappointed when these albums had been released in mono only,.at least here in HiFi-loving Germany. Currently I am spinning my 1986 UK pressing (-4/-4 matrix). Not bad either, but the german HörZu respectively the Apple versions has a little bit more of the magic. BR from Munich and I am looking forward for the next episode.
Thank you very much for being here and for the kind words. As a person following several YT channels myself (beyond music or The Beatles), I know nowadays we have our pick of content so I am always happy when someone chooses to check out any of these videos. Regarding The Beatles I do not plan on stopping, I am too linked to their music to do that, but I do want (and always intended) to cover other stuff as well. Back to the music, all in all it seems to me more and more that digital remasters can sometimes be on par with the original analogue ones, at least when it comes to what my ears can perceive. I do agree that when someone takes an original master tape to make a digital remaster, and they start playing around with eq and other settings, and pumping up volume artificially, you can get some bad results. Same goes for new mixes (see a couple of the mistakes they made on a few songs in the new Red and Blue). In the end that can happen to vinyl pressings as well, it's not the medium we should blame. But beyond that... I find that I am enjoying my CDs at least as much as vinyl. Related to what you said about the 87-88 CDs and Vinyl being unappreciated at the time, you might be right. In the end there were three things that surely influenced that: how people's ears were used to listen to music (vinyl, tapes etc), what they expected and had built up as expectation on how CDs will sound and last but not least the level of tech and expertise people had at that time transferring music to digital (vs today). Danke!
Glad you are doing this series on the individual albums. I have been trying to make sure I have a good copy of their albums , it seems like once they are remastered it becomes harder to obtain a good sounding original copy. You really do a good job in showing the different versions. Take care!
Thank you very much for watching. The series will continue, I am only worried about a couple of them where I am still waiting for some versions to come in. But otherwise I will see this through.
Wondering if your channel is just another Beatles channel??RUclips is filled with thousands of Beatles channels all showing and talking about the same thing It makes it harder to branch out and get more views doesn’t it???
Yeah, tbh it was not intended to be a 100% focused Beatles channel. It still is not. It's more about things I was/am passionate about. It just started with the Beatles, and I had so many things lined up while I was progressing with collecting items, that I'm kinda sticking with it for a while. Regarding Beatles channels, I would not say there are thousands, or at least not that I am aware of, there definitely some which are like 90% Beatles focused, but I saw more that are just like a mix related mostly to music. Anyway, I did not necessarily want to mirror any other channel, as my perspective is not one of a semi-rich person collecting this stuff for decades, it's rather of a new collector or specialist, just a layman, hopefully also encouraging other people who cannot afford or don't have the time to buy and own and listen to every single possible pressing or version. In the idea that there are more people like me out there ofc. About branching out: you are 100% correct. I am only learning this whole "youtube" thing, and being quite late at this party as well, I can say that the current state of facts pushes new people into choosing very specific niches and sticking with them. Not sure where the future will take me, but what I am sure of is that I don't want to just be chasing trends. I would love to do videos about films and series, about games as well, but time is also very tight, and so (for now) I need to make choices. But one thing I can say is that after starting something like this, with an apparent focus point for the first few months, branching out does not mean views, often it means the opposite.
Thanks a lot for this great video. I really enjoy it. I read in the comments, that someone complained about that your channel is just another Beatles channel. I am grateful for this! you do very well researched videos with an extremely high knowledge of the stuff you are talking. I really appreciate your thorough deep dives.So, please carry on with that! Now to Please Please Me: I fully agree that the 70th German pressing with -2/-2 matrix sounds best. But I also love the 2012 stereo remasters on vinyl. Its bad reputation is unjustified in my opinion. Inspired by your video, I compared my 2009 mono CD with the 1988 digitally sources LP version (never got the CD). Very similar to your experience, there is hardly any difference to hear. I think, the bad reputation, the early 1987 Beatles CDs and LPs have, is quite unfair. At my system (not an audiophile system, but a good HiFi) they do sound great... I guess, fans had been very disappointed when these albums had been released in mono only,.at least here in HiFi-loving Germany. Currently I am spinning my 1986 UK pressing (-4/-4 matrix). Not bad either, but the german HörZu respectively the Apple versions has a little bit more of the magic. BR from Munich and I am looking forward for the next episode.
Thank you very much for being here and for the kind words. As a person following several YT channels myself (beyond music or The Beatles), I know nowadays we have our pick of content so I am always happy when someone chooses to check out any of these videos. Regarding The Beatles I do not plan on stopping, I am too linked to their music to do that, but I do want (and always intended) to cover other stuff as well.
Back to the music, all in all it seems to me more and more that digital remasters can sometimes be on par with the original analogue ones, at least when it comes to what my ears can perceive. I do agree that when someone takes an original master tape to make a digital remaster, and they start playing around with eq and other settings, and pumping up volume artificially, you can get some bad results. Same goes for new mixes (see a couple of the mistakes they made on a few songs in the new Red and Blue). In the end that can happen to vinyl pressings as well, it's not the medium we should blame.
But beyond that... I find that I am enjoying my CDs at least as much as vinyl.
Related to what you said about the 87-88 CDs and Vinyl being unappreciated at the time, you might be right. In the end there were three things that surely influenced that:
how people's ears were used to listen to music (vinyl, tapes etc), what they expected and had built up as expectation on how CDs will sound and last but not least the level of tech and expertise people had at that time transferring music to digital (vs today).
Danke!
Glad you are doing this series on the individual albums. I have been trying to make sure I have a good copy of their albums , it seems like once they are remastered it becomes harder to obtain a good sounding original copy. You really do a good job in showing the different versions. Take care!
Thank you very much for watching. The series will continue, I am only worried about a couple of them where I am still waiting for some versions to come in. But otherwise I will see this through.
Totally agree with you 2012 sounds fantastic 👍
Still wondering why people were putting these down.
Great reviews, love your compilations. Very relaxing 😂😂@@BurgundySkies
Wondering if your channel is just another Beatles channel??RUclips is filled with thousands of Beatles channels all showing and talking about the same thing It makes it harder to branch out and get more views doesn’t it???
Yeah, tbh it was not intended to be a 100% focused Beatles channel. It still is not. It's more about things I was/am passionate about. It just started with the Beatles, and I had so many things lined up while I was progressing with collecting items, that I'm kinda sticking with it for a while. Regarding Beatles channels, I would not say there are thousands, or at least not that I am aware of, there definitely some which are like 90% Beatles focused, but I saw more that are just like a mix related mostly to music.
Anyway, I did not necessarily want to mirror any other channel, as my perspective is not one of a semi-rich person collecting this stuff for decades, it's rather of a new collector or specialist, just a layman, hopefully also encouraging other people who cannot afford or don't have the time to buy and own and listen to every single possible pressing or version. In the idea that there are more people like me out there ofc.
About branching out: you are 100% correct. I am only learning this whole "youtube" thing, and being quite late at this party as well, I can say that the current state of facts pushes new people into choosing very specific niches and sticking with them. Not sure where the future will take me, but what I am sure of is that I don't want to just be chasing trends. I would love to do videos about films and series, about games as well, but time is also very tight, and so (for now) I need to make choices.
But one thing I can say is that after starting something like this, with an apparent focus point for the first few months, branching out does not mean views, often it means the opposite.
Are you from Russia or former USSR?
Hello. Nope. But as close as can be. Romania.
@@BurgundySkies Hello, Romania!
Hello!!! Where are you from?