Rolling Stones Studio Albums 1971-2016 Vinyl Box Coming June 15th*

The SACDs were ~.3% slow compared to what? I would assume that previous LPs and CDs varied by at least that much.

 

Yeah, people were arguing that point in the thread. Compared to what I'd heard (which, at the time, mainly would have been the 1994 CD and snippets of the 2009 CD), it was slow.

 

Good luck guys with your set. I was one of the lucky ones to get the deal at $179 on Amazon only to foolishly not go thru with the sale, dumb me. I was lucky enough to snag the only Stones studio album i was missing (Bigger Bang), but i'm curious to see if the new set is as good as we think it might be.

 

Glad I'm not the only one, at least.

 

How was it protected/packaged anyone who has received it ?

 

I emailed Mike Fremer for his thoughts of half speed mastering and if he thought the box was worth the investment.

He said "can't beat fresh tapes"

 

Bingo!
Beave

 

You might have perfect pitch that hasn’t been fully developed. I just googled and read a short article from Psychology today that said that while incidence among the general public is 1 in 10,000 people, among classical musicians it may be 7%.

 

Please tell about download code. How do you redeem it? What format, bitrate it is?

 

Why would you think this? It’s not his area of expertise - and besides everything was already flat transferred to DSD and hi-rez PCM. Why do it again?

 

Confirmed delivery date from Amazon! I got the cheap price so I splurged on global priority shipping for $18. I’m actually looking forward to trying this one out:

 

Yes it is and thanks for clarity on that, the way he spoke made no sense to me.
So........
We get FFile at an artificial oh sped up speed for over 40 years,
Finally get it at it's correct speed on the 100% pure 'lp' and sacd, and now just to go back to the
Incorrect sped up one,
Well shows you that nobody who really knows what's what is running the show.
Shamefull
Beave

 

Exactly. Which is sort of the same argument I made when this (non) issue was raised initially a few months back .

 

How do you know what the correct speed is?

 

Here’s where I got confused....

When they said “vinyl specific” original tape transfers, I took that to mean he was doing them again himself. Then, of course I remembered him picking and choosing from the existing files on the hard drive.

 

Non-answer answer. Regardless how would he know any more than anyone else if it was worth the investment unless he’d heard them?

Honestly if Showell is given free reign with the flat transfers, they should be quite good. Will they beat the originals - which were mostly cut straight from the “fresh” analog masters by top tier mastering engineers? That remains to be seen.

 

I'm leaving mine in the shipping carton until I read a few reviews and opinions on this. With a purchase price of $180.00 I could flip it and sell it cheap and still make money. I have most of these albums but just couldn't pass on Amazon price.

 

Eh...I don’t think so really. The longer version adds what, 30 seconds to the running time of the track? That would put the TT of the side at 25:13. They could cut it like that or easily fade some of the other tracks earlier if they wanted. Jeez, they could lopped a whole minute off Dance Little Sister and no one would have noticed.

 

They think customers are stupid.

 

Typical marketing gobbledy-gook written by people who don’t really understand what they’re writing about.

I took it to mean flat transfers which would then be used to create vinyl specific masterings, i.e. these wouldn’t be cut from digital production masters like the recent Exile 1/2 speed. But the wording is confusing.

 

Didn’t Fremer prefer the mono box over original 1st pressings?
No fresh tape used there.

 

The 64-69 vinyl box sounded good IMO.

 

It does. Unfortunately, it wasn’t mastered with state-of-the-art picking and mixing files from a hard drive that nobody knows from what tapes are sourced or who EQ or transferred them.

 

This is Fremer's review of the Mono Box: The Rolling Stones in Mono Box Set Reviewed

This is Fremer's review of the ABKCO box: The Two New* Rolling Stones Box Sets: Deal or No Deal? Part I

 

Actually it wasn’t that different.