Entire Beatles' catalogue getting remastered on CD and a strong chance of Blu-rays

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Originally Posted by Suntory_Times

I think I'll pass. Remastered now a days seem to just involve boosting the loudness and thus flattening the dynamic range (see the remastered U2 and Led Zeppelin cd's for the worst offenders in this area).

LPs by nature have compressed dynamic range, but I will vouch for the fact that the MFSL LPs of the Beatles recordings are the best that they have ever sounded. The original master tapes for older recordings like that also have more limited dynamic range due to the recording technology of the time (to say nothing of the increased noise floor.) That said, I do agree with you about the choices that are often made in the digital mastering process, but I think that it has a much greater impact with newer recordings.