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Subject: audities-digest V2 #767 (10 msgs)


> The Audities Digest: for the discussion of insanely great pop
> Volume 2 : Issue 767 : "text" Format
>
> Messages in this Issue:
>  Re: Offical press release for the Beatles Capitol box and
>                            ["Billy G. Spradlin" 
> <bgspradlin@cablelynx.com>]
>  Re: Offical press release for the Beatles Capitol box and
>                              ["Jaimie Vernon" 
> <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com>]
>  u2?                     ["Jake Beamer" 
> <overlookedcreations1@hotmail.com>]
>  New Chills CDEP                 ["S. Kelly Sears" 
> <sksears@eps.mcgill.ca>]
>  Sparklefest                           ["Cathy Gale" 
> <cat_pop@hotmail.com>]
>  Re: Big Election Night show in Los Angeles!!
>                                        ["Gene Good" 
> <javagene@hotmail.com>]
>  Re: Melancholia 
> [bob_hutton@standardlife.com]
>  Re: Liverpool Roll Call 
> [bob_hutton@standardlife.com]
>  Re: Sweet Caroline          ["Sager, Greg" 
> <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com>]
>  Beatles Reissues                      ["Miguel Motta" 
> <a2j@bellsouth.net>]
>
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>
> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:14:55 -0500
> From: "Billy G. Spradlin" <bgspradlin@cablelynx.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: Offical press release for the Beatles Capitol box and
> Message-ID: <auto-000069722377@cablelynx.com>
>
> From the press release:
>
> "Further, each of the discs will include two versions of each song - one 
> in
> stereo (or duophonic in some cases) - then the selections are repeated in
> mono.
> The duophonic sound was carefully created by Capitol, using 2 channels of 
> mono
> which were equalized, compressed and then reverb was added. The Capitol 
> Albums
> Volume 1 have been carefully mastered from the original masters, taken 
> from
> the
> vaults at Capitol Records, to ensure that they sound as they did when 
> first
> released.'
>
> Argh! Duophonic? Not carefully created by any means, just a crude tape 
> delay
> device that put a millisecond delay between the left and right channels. 
> My
> early 70's copy of "Second Album" is so compressed Ringo's cymbals 
> "hissssss"
> all the way through it. Still its great to get those early tracks in 
> stereo.
>
> Amazon's price is $62.99 divided by 4 = about $15.75 for each CD.
>
> Billy
>
>

Billy,
CD Universe is selling it for $55 and you know both Best Buy and Circuit 
City will beat that.

Chris