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The Old CD – You Know, the Original Mono One that the General Public Used to Say Was So Great…
(That is of course the stereo record you see pictured to the left.)
I have the early generation mono CD of this album. Although my car has a very good stereo system, you would never know there was any magic to the sound of these recordings by playing that CD. The whole thing is hopelessly flat and gray.
It starts to perk up by the song Things We Said Today, the 10th (!) track.
Before that it just sounds compressed, with all the voices and instruments mashed together. There’s no transparency to the sound. It reminds me of listening to this music on the radio. If that’s the effect George Martin was going for with the old mono mix, he succeeded brilliantly. I prefer the twin-track unapproved stereo mixes found on the LPs.
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