I broke a promise that I made to myself about not buying the newly re-mastered Beatles mono LPs . I bought a couple to see what all the furore was about on impulse without listening to my rational brain. Well I am not going to indulge anymore.
I have been listening to LPs for years and I have always been annoyed by any sort of wow and flutter, static hiss, groove noise and crackles.
I recently bought a copy of King Crimson's " In the Court of the Crimson King" in 200 gm virgin vinyl. When I first played it, it sounded perfect. However, it did not sound any better than the CD version.
I have played the record 3 times now and already static crackle and dust clicks are affecting the quiet parts of the album. This accumulation of static and dust cannot be prevented.
The same thing is happening to the couple of The Beatles mono re-masters that I have bought. If I keep playing them they will end up sounding like my 1963 copy of "With The Beatles" which has got plenty of static noise in between the tracks even though it is not damaged or worn out. I will end up thinking why did I bother buying the new records. New vinyl should only really be played on special occasions - you are better off digitising the records to 16/44.1 Wav or Flac music files which reproduce the vinyl sound exactly the same, or buying the CD if it has been mastered at a good quality which the new Beatles CD re-masters have been and so has the King Crimson. With a CD you benefit from an album which is free of surface noise, wow and flutter and crackle - genuine hi-fi.
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