The Beatles - Abbey Road 50th Anniversary (5.1 & Dolby Atmos mixes)

[marpow]

Aren't the SHM-CDs also made in Japan?

Yes, that is correct.

 

[milt]

Mine is being delivered from Amazon JP today after DHL F'd up & sent it to wrong dist center yesterday.

Made it

 

[Which_One_Is_Pink]

Mine has made it through customs (Amazon UK via i-parcel) and has been handed off to UPS and should be delivered Thursday, my day off

 

[J. PUPSTER]

Mine is being delivered from Amazon JP today after DHL F'd up & sent it to wrong dist center yesterday.

"DHL" - (Think- "NEWMAN" from Seinfeld!)

 

[4-earredwonder]

My copy arrived from CDJapan yesterday, couldn't be happier. I listened to Disc 3 first and then the BD 5.1, awesome. I read about half of the book. My BD played no problem and for those who are keeping track my Blu Ray Disc says "Made In Japan".

I'm almost tempted in this instance to double dip and also spring for the Japanese pressed Abbey Road box set as a few years ago CDJapan was literally 'blowing out' dozens of Blue Note, Riverside, etc. JAZZ BD~As for approximately $9 each and in every instance they sounded superior to their US pressed BD~As and even SACDs and of course the packaging was also somewhat superior [especially with those obis].

Hmmmm! Now I'm wondering how the EU BD~A of AR compares with its Japanese counterpart?

 

[Imbobman]

Ringo never sounded better as a drummer than he did on Abbey Road. Not with the Beatles anyway.

I third the motion! Ringo sounds excellent. Too bad his solo on 'The End' is so short.
NOW...getting to the main subject. First listened to this, the Blu-Ray of course, last night... 5.1 mix...
OH, this is so outstanding it's almost beyond words. But I've got words..... It sounded like a different album to me than I recall.
The mix, bass, drums, fidelity, book/ materials, quality of the performances...Really among the finest I've ever heard, ever!
Very, very well done. Thank you to all involved with making this possible.
[FWIW, played fine on an Oppo 103.]

 

[milt]

Has anyone compared the Love version of Come Together with AR?
I wonder since it was already done if they used the Love 5.1 for AR.
Not that it matters.

 

[Nova]

Ok am I missing something here I cant get the disk to play in 5.1 it starts in stereo and when i switch it it says its blocked by disc....... HELP

 

[4-earredwonder]

Ok am I missing something here I cant get the disk to play in 5.1 it starts in stereo and when i switch it it says its blocked by disc....... HELP

Just scroll down the song titles and when you get to the bottom >>>>> to AUDIO then select codec. A real PITA but hey, that's life! Think of it as a 'slight' Abbey Roadblock!

 

[wavelength]

or press the UP button when on Come Together and it goes over to the bottom of the audio selections and press UP again to get to the 5.1.

 

[4-earredwonder]

or press the UP button when on Come Together and it goes over to the bottom of the audio selections and press UP again to get to the 5.1.

Or just command Alexa [who has a slight British accent] to play the damn thing in Surround!

ALEXA: PLAY OCTOPUSSY GARDEN IN SURROUND

 

[Scott65]

I'm almost tempted in this instance to double dip and also spring for the Japanese pressed Abbey Road box set as a few years ago CDJapan was literally 'blowing out' dozens of Blue Note, Riverside, etc. JAZZ BD~As for approximately $9 each and in every instance they sounded superior to their US pressed BD~As and even SACDs and of course the packaging was also somewhat superior [especially with those obis].

Hmmmm! Now I'm wondering how the EU BD~A of AR compares with its Japanese counterpart?

I am thinking the same thing. Japanese blu ray could be more reliable too...

 

[milt]

With the Japanese Sgt. Pepper SDE, the packaging was made in Japan.
With TWA and AR the packaging is all from the same source with only the Japanese version having SHM-CDs which are only pressed in Japan & the BR.
I haven't checked the BR in my AR set but I'm assuming it was pressed at the Sony plant.
I assume the authoring is baked in.

I don't know if the other versions have this but the JP version also has the nice satin slip sleeves inside the paper sleeves.
After all is said and done, the Sgt. Pepper was the only one that was significantly more expensive than "domestic" versions.
I paid ~$100 shipped from Amazon jp for AR, certainly not the steal that a few got in on from Amazon CA but insignificant to me vs. Amazon.

 

[J. PUPSTER]

Just got mine in from Amazon.ca, via DHL - 3 days earlier than scheduled.
Also at the low price expected; seems I owe someone here a little lagniappe
Miracles are possible
Now, let's see about that BD pressing!

 

[wavelength]

Just got mine in from Amazon.ca, via DHL - 3 days earlier than scheduled.
Also at the low price expected; seems I owe someone here a little lagniappe
Miracles are possible
Now, let's see about that BD pressing!

They say it's the thought that counts. Enjoy!

 

[ar surround]

Has anyone compared the Love version of Come Together with AR?
I wonder since it was already done if they used the Love 5.1 for AR.
Not that it matters.

I did the comparison. Come Together on the new Abbey Road is better than Love 5.1, which is really good too. The new Abbey Road version is more discrete and the vocals are better IMO. YMMV.

 

[humprof]

Now that much of the action on this title has moved over to the poll threads, I'll take the risk of boring people with my not-as-old-as-you-old-guys-but-old-enough-to-reminisce memories. (Actually, I mainly just want to get this down for myself, while the taste of the Proustian madeleine of my first listen [to the 5.1 mix] is still fresh.)

For me, Abbey Road was the album that taught me the pleasure of getting lost in a soundscape in the dark. It took a while to show up at our house--I think because my college-aged brother (in whose dorm room I'd first heard bits of the White Album) was out of the picture, and my next older brother wasn't yet buying albums. But when he started, about a year and a half later, he started with a vengeance, coming home from a trip to East Lansing with not one but four discs in an LP-sized bag from Marshall Music: a pair of Elton Johns (EJ and 11-17-70), Tapestry, and Abbey Road. In my memory, I just appropriated all of them, and wore them all out, spinning them over and over again on our family's old Motorola hi-fi, whose base unit sat on a typing table in a corner of the dining room.

(I found a picture of it on Etsy--the SH12: )

With Abbey Road, I would lie on the floor, position the detachable speakers about eighteen inches away from either side of my head, turn out the lights, and get lost (the Motorola had a little indicator lamp on the front, under the handle, that acted as a beacon). The sudden end of "I Want You" would startle me out of my reverie long enough to get up and flip the record, but by halfway through the second side I'd be back in a trance.

The surround mix just brings back for me the details of that record that I used to know by heart from such close (literally and figuratively) listening. I'm convinced, by the way, that the detail and intricacy of that Side 2 suite was what prepped me to become a prog fan...

Postscript: of course I was totally ready to hear Abbey Road when it finally came into the house. First, there were the singles ("Something," "Come Together," "Here Comes the Sun"), which had been all over AM radio. Before that: for my birthday in 1968, my brother, the same one who eventually bought AR, gave me the 45rpm of "Let It Be"--only my parents, good Lutherans that they were, held it back until my dad could give me a cautionary lecture about the song's dangerous papist premise. (By the way: will Giles oversee a box set of the Spectorized Let It Be album, do we think? In the All Songs Considered interview that @rjpinca posted, he says no; he's putting his efforts into the Peter Jackson film, and an anniversary record would have to be "justified." But...?)

But what really whetted my appetite were all the crazy "Paul Is Dead" conspiracy stories (if you're too young to remember: the fact that Paul was barefoot on the cover of AR was a coded sign), which were Topic A on my school bus. Not surprisingly, I absolutely devoured Issue 222 of Batman, which I still have in a box in the garage:

 

[humprof]

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/30/765719828/abbey-road-remixed-a-conversation-with-giles-martinThey discuss the 5.1 and Atmos mixes!

That's a lovely and informative interview.

 

[Jim the Oldbie]

w-Wow! Great Batman issue - I never knew about that.

I remember during the height of the "Paul is dead" thing, LIFE magazine published an article that began with, "We were wondering if there was any truth to these rumors, so we decided to visit Paul on his farm and ask him about it," or something like that, followed by a lovely interview with a very witty (and respiring) Paul and fam.

 

[Nova]

Just scroll down the song titles and when you get to the bottom >>>>> to AUDIO then select codec. A real PITA but hey, that's life! Think of it as a 'slight' Abbey Roadblock!

ALL IS WELL IN 5.1 !!!!! THANKS PANIC IS OVER ! SOUNDS FANTASTIC !