Beatles ? Stereo VINYL LP Box ? 14 album 16 LP ? 180g ? +book +case ? remasters

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 The Beatles Stereo Remasters 2012 Vinyl Box ? new release ? 14 Albums 16 LPs 180g + Book + Travel Case
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The Stereo Albums on 180g Vinyl (via Apple/EMI) 

"Please Please Me"  "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You" are presented in mono. (North American LP debut in stereo)

"With The Beatles"   (North American LP debut in stereo) 

"A Hard Day's Night"  (North American LP debut in stereo)

"Beatles For Sale"  (North American LP debut in stereo)

"Help!"  Features George Martin's 1986 stereo remix

"Magical Mystery Tour"  Packaging includes 24-page colour book

The Beatles (White Album)  (double album) Packaging includes double-sided photo montage/lyric sheet and 4 solo colour photos

"Yellow Submarine" "Only A Northern Song" is presented in mono. Additional insert includes original American liner notes.

"Abbey Road"  Original album

The book, exclusive to the boxed edition, is authored by award-winning radio producer Kevin Howlett and features a dedicated chapter for each of the albums, as well as insight into the creation of the remasters and how the vinyl albums were prepared. The 12"x12" book showcases a wealth of photographs spanning The Beatles' recording career, including many images which were not included in the 2009 CD booklets.

Having made initial test cuts, Magee pinpointed any sound problems that can occur during playback of vinyl records. To rectify them, changes were made to the remasters with a Digital Audio Workstation. For example, each vinyl album was listened to for any 'sibilant episodes' - vocal distortion that can occur on consonant sounds such as S and T. These were corrected by reducing the level in the very small portion of sound causing the undesired effect. Similarly, any likelihood of 'inner-groove distortion' was addressed. As the stylus approaches the centre of the record, it is liable to track the groove less accurately. This can affect the high-middle frequencies, producing a 'mushy' sound particularly noticeable on vocals. Using what Magee has described as 'surgical EQ,' problem frequencies were identified and reduced in level to compensate for this.

The last phase of the vinyl mastering process began with the arrival of the first batches of test pressings made from master lacquers that had been sent to the two pressing plant factories. Stringent quality tests identified any noise or click appearing on more than one test pressing in the same place. If this happened, it was clear that the undesired sounds had been introduced either during the cutting or the pressing stage and so the test records were rejected. In the quest to achieve the highest quality possible, the Abbey Road team worked closely with the pressing factories and the manufacturers of the lacquer and cutting styli.

An additional and unusual challenge was to ensure the proper playback of the sounds embedded in the 'lock-groove' at the end of side two of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Requiring a combination of good timing and luck, it had always been a lengthy and costly process to make it work properly. In fact, it was so tricky, it had never been attempted for American pressings of the LP. Naturally, Sean Magee and the team perfected this and the garbled message is heard as originally intended on the remastered Sgt. Pepper LP.