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New for 2025
The Revolver Remix – There Is Nothing to Be Learned from the Second Kick of a Mule
As I was reading the newspaper today, I chanced upon Mark Twain’s famous quote and immediately recognized a way to put it to good use. I had been searching my brain for a good way to start a commentary detailing the multitudinous problems with the remixed, Half-Speed mastered Revolver LP. Kicked in the head was exactly what I needed.
Listening to Revolver in Stereo — “It’s Only for Nuts…”
“You are way out of your league even pretending to know what you’re talking about”
What the Shootout Winning Copies of A Hard Day’s Night Really Get Right
Now that we are putting our unredacted (!) shootout notes on the blog for everyone to see, here are the actual notes for the shootout winning pressing we just played (6/2025), notes that back up what we said so many years ago 100%.
Harry Moss Cut These UK Stampers for Hey Jude — How Did He Go So Wrong?
Seems at though at least some of the work he did for the Hey Jude album is not his best.
Driving My Car into a Ditch
Mobile Fidelity made a mess of Drive My Car on their Half-Speed mastered release of Rubber Soul in 1982.
New for 2024
What We Thought We Knew About Abbey Road in 2007
Which is to say, that was long before we had a chance to learn what we know now. Doing two annual shootouts for another 17 years — and counting — taught us more than we could have ever learned any other way.