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Article: MUSIC; Beatles discs for sale (again?); Remastered editions of their 13 albums are part of this week's hoopla. It's about time, actually.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- September 8, 2009
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Byline: CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER; STAFF WRITER
No, this isn't the 11th time they've reissued the Beatles albums. It just seems as if they're always tinkering with them.
This week's onslaught of Beatlemania Inc. includes the first-ever remastered versions of the group's 13 main U.K. catalog albums, newly bundled in a $259-advertised box set or sold individually at $18.98 (but cheaper at most stores). There's also a more niche-brand, $299 box set of all the pre-1968 albums reissued in mono, as they were originally made before stereo mixing was common.
Audiophiles have long contended that the sonic quality of all these records was subpar when they ...