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"Beatles For Sale" Is The Best Yet In the Box——Could There Be Better To Come?
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 02, 2014  |  19 comments
"Product", "Filler", whatever you want to call it, the appropriately titled Beatles For Sale was a "have to meet the two album a year schedule" interim album due out for the 1964 Christmas season—a hodgepodge return to covers, George really asserting his country and western licks, John feeling his inner Bob Dylan, John and Paul channeling the Everly Brothers, Ringo given a real chance to stretch out in the percussion department and Paul rocking, rolling and screaming on reissue and breaking your heart on one of his achingly beautiful ballads.

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"A Hard Day's Night" Mono Better Than Stereo?
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 01, 2014  |  18 comments
Back in 1964 American buyers of the mono "A Hard Day's Night" Soundtrack album (United Artists UAL 3366) got a better deal than did the ones who bought the "stereo" version. While the latter's instrumentals were in true stereo the Beatles songs were mangled by UA engineers into versions that were electronically reprocessed for stereo.

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"With the Beatles" Mono Reissue Beats the Original?
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 01, 2014  |  11 comments
Though the two originals have plenty of "mileage", they don't sound "chewed" and a great deal of high frequency energy remains in the grooves. Nonetheless, this new AAA reissue sounds tonally identical to the original.

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Eric Leefe Takes Delivery of his New Stereo
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 01, 2014  |  17 comments
Eric Leefe got his new stereo installed last weekend. He wanted to thank readers and acknowledge the outpouring of generosity from analogplanet.com readers so with his permission I pointed the iPhone camera at him.

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Please Please Me AAA Mono Reissue: So Far So Great!
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 30, 2014  |  25 comments
On the afternoon of September 4th, 1962 The Beatles arrived at Abbey Road for their first official session. They rehearsed, had dinner, returned to the studio and recorded “How Do You Do it” chosen for them as their first single by George Martin.

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Beatles Mono Box Arrives!
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 29, 2014  |  64 comments
The Beatles in Mono arrived today. This evening listening will begin but this afternoon analogplanet.com editor Michael Fremer opened the box and physically inspected.
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Turntable Reviews
AVID “T"s Off with Low Priced Ingenium Turntable
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 26, 2014  |  27 comments
Designing a turntable (or pretty much anything) with no budgetary constraints is far easier than is designing one to a specific price point, especially a low one.

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"But Wait! There's More!" Department: Dylan Bootleg Series Vol. 11, The Basement Tapes Complete
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 26, 2014  |  10 comments
Original tape sources, including "many found only recently" of Bob Dylan's legendary "Basement Tape" sessions have been meticulously restored and will be released on November 4th by Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings in a complete 6 disc CD set (The Basement Tapes Complete:The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 and in a 2 CD/3 LP 180g highlights edition (The Basement Tapes Raw: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11.

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Beatles Mono Box Not Pressed at GZ Media Or "Seeing Is Not Believing!"
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 26, 2014  |  20 comments
A visit to Czech Republic-based GZ Media recently published on a website includes an un-captioned photo of a large stack of the upcoming Beatles Mono box sets. This has flooded analogplanet.com's "inbox" with emails from readers, some inquisitive, some hysterical and a few spewing expletives.

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Listen Up! Music Matters Denver Event Video Posted on YouTube
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 25, 2014  |  9 comments
Last winter analogplanet.com editor Michael Fremer attended a Music Matters event at Denver's Listen Up! retailer. Retailers throughout the country hold these "meet and greet" events for their regular customers and to attract new ones to the store.

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