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I listened to Abbey Road on the Meridian setup today. Short version: believe the hype. WOW. Finally it sounds like I've imagined it should sound. I also listened to Revolver at my computer tonight. The first thing that strikes me is the bass. Its just very clean (this statement recalls Paul talking about his little ol dad in A Hard Days Night  ). I think the original CDs were really very muddled in this department. The next thing that strikes me is the clarity- the basic songs are the same of course, and we all know them, but now there is a life and a sparkle to the details. I also fired up A Hard Days NIght and you know what- I dont mind the stereo mixes at all. The sound has a real energy and clarity to it. The people who worked on these remasters (Im sure George and Giles Martin) should be commended- they did a fantastic, wonderful, job that aside from commercial considerations, had to have been a labor of love. It shows. Jerry - how do the Meridian surround modes work with the set (presumably the stereo set)? Have you recieved the mono set yet to try a listen?
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For UK members, the new edition of "Record Collector" has a long interview with the engineers responsible for the remastering, including considerable techincal information on the remastering process. The Martins were not directly involved, apparently because this was a remastering rather than remixing process.
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I dont have the mono set yet. I just listened to Abbey Road and most of the album is very focused across the front 3 speakers- so the Trifield is not pulling out a lot of ambience, but on some tracks like Because the ambience is pulled to the surrounds. The result across the front 3 though is very natural- for a studio album- by that I mean Trifield tries to get you that "live" feeling but often studio albums have instruments coming from weird places. At least The Beatles kept instruments in the same place during a song. With previous listenings to Abbey, the 1987 CD would just seem too flat and the soundfield never really came together (pun intended). Now its as if they took a silver hammer to the works and fixed the octupus' garden worth of issues to come up with something that even mean mr. mustard would have to admit is so good it can carry that weight of history and gives the fans who have better audio rigs something that is so satisfying we can say its the end Almost makes one feel like her majesty
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Jerry
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In all seriousness I was struck with just how much more punch and also detail there is. I had always felt the Beatles CDs were best enjoyed with mid-fi stuff like walkman or iPod or the car audio or just a boom box where all the sound could gel before it gets to you. But putting it through the M rig just highlighted all the deficiencies and it was pulled apart. Now its put together and to use the overused phrase- its like youre there. I'm going to do more listening this weekend. I'm trying to finalize a deal and Ive been working like a dog...
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Jerry
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They themselves both had "The Beetles" and "Long John and The Beetles" as early name suggestions 
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Got my mono box-set today and looks like I could be the first to upload to AccurateRip.
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I got 200 on accurate rip on each track on the Love (CD+DVDA) disk set. Which is the highest I recall ever seeing.
- Fiddler (IMHO)
If you think listening to music is fun, try learning an instrument.
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I see 200+ quite often, but then again, I'm Mr. Mainstream...
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Whats 200? Level of quality? I don't use these fancy rippers you all use. Im just ripping to AIFF via iTunes.
Best regards,
Jerry
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One other thing, they have rightly given us the mono and the stereo, with the stereo being the exact mix that was originally used. How about a complete remaster with 2009 sensibilities as well as a multichannel version. This would be nice and could do wonders for some of the songs like day tripper, which is a great tune but the stereo mix is horrible.
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Jerry
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As there is no difference signal between L+R, Trifield will produce mono from the centre speaker. No it doesn't; it broadens the soundstage (sound coming out of the front three speakers) vs. the Mono DSP preset (centre speaker only). See https://www.meridianunplugged.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=97267#Post97267 The number of bit-for-bit identical rip checksums uploaded to the AccurateRip database.
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I've just uploaded my dBpoweramp ripping checksums for all of the CDs in the Mono box-set except "Mono Masters".
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