THE BEATLES Lady Madonna / The Inner Light VG+ 1968 MONO! 2138 Picture Sleeve!

Sold Date: January 26, 2022
Start Date: May 22, 2021
Final Price: $23.99 (USD)
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Vinyl:  VG+  Play Graded.  Sounds Great!  Capitol Labels are Clean and Bright.  Labels are without subsidiary print.  This is the 1968 Capitol Original MONO 1ST PRESSING!  Issued March 18,1968. Capitol 2138.  Recorded just before flying off for their fateful group trip to India where they stayed at the Maharishi's compound.   It's Very exciting to turn up The Beatles in Mono!  The Beatles themselves preferred their Mono mixes.   These songs have since been rereleased in stereo so here's a Rare opportunity to hear them in their original form.  You can hear different things going on on each of the songs since the mono mix sounds different from the stereo mix.  Different parts of each separate track come across differently in the different mixes.

In the Dead Wax:  matrices on both sides, etched.  Includes the "IAM" stamp, for the International Association of Machinists, denoting that it was Pressed at Capitol's Scranton, PA Pressing Plant.  Complete Dead wax details cheerfully given upon request.  

SLEEVE:  VG+  (see photos; no seam splits, no stickers, no writing, has a small tear on top of the rear edge and a tiny nick on the right edge, and has some ring wear) Original 1ST PRESSING EAST COAST PICTURE SLEEVE.   Photo taken at Abbey Road Studios in February, 1968.
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  All records are packaged securely with the vinyl outside the sleeve (to avoid seam split in transit). The vinyl and sleeve are sandwiched between two cardboard stiffeners and shipped in a custom cardboard record mailer box. 
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Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album? 
First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm. 

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are  clearer.  

On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.