The Beatles
With The Beatles Factory Sealed UK Import ANALOG Stereo LP (PCS 3045) SIMILAR to the one pictured here 100% of the proceeds of this auction go to charity
            This is a Factory Sealed EMI British Import LP from the '70s with No Bar Code. The cover is LIKE NEW, with square corners, no real dents, and only the slightest of tears in the shrink. The MoFi Pressing Sucks   While we can't tell you exactly how this pressing will sound, one thing I can say is that this copy will very likely murder the MOFI. Sure the MOFI pressing of With The Beatles is quiet but that's about all it has going for it. (The CD is quiet too, so what does that have to do with anything?) The MOFI has so many problems it would take an hour to describe them all. Suffice it to say, it's thinner, brighter, the voices are grainier, and the overall effect is the sinking feeling that you are listening to a cheap reissue and not the real thing. Don't the Beatles sound better than this?

One day I sat down and made notes track by track for all fourteen songs on the album.  If you own the MOFI, play it. Listen to it critically. Make notes of which songs sound better than others and why. That's what we do around here all day, and that's how we've learned to listen critically, in order to evaluate the relative merits of each of these pressings.

A sealed MOFI of this record is well over $500 these days. And there's little chance that this copy won't beat the MOFI hands down.

What We Listen For At the risk of being definitive about things that are better left ill-defined, I would say that the Number One quality we look for in a pressing is that element of Life or Energy. We can put up with many shortcomings, including even some tonality problems, but when a record fails to convey the spirit and enthusiasm of the musicians, it's pretty much over.

The most serious fault of the typical Half-Speed Mastered LP is not tonal incorrectness or poor bass definition, although you will have a hard time finding one that doesn't suffer from both. It's Dead As A Doornail sound, plain and simple. And most Heavy Vinyl pressings coming down the pike these days are as guilty of this sin as their audiophile forerunners from the '70s. The average Sundazed record I throw on my turntable sounds like it's playing in another room. What audiophile in his right mind could possibly find that quality appealing? Nevertheless Sundazed and other companies just like them keep turning out this crap. Somebody must be buying it.

So how does the famous MOFI pressing sound? In a word, clean. And far better than any Japanese or domestic pressing we heard. But it's dead, man. It's so dead.   AMG Review

... the heart of With the Beatles lies not in the covers, but the originals, where it was clear that, even at this early stage, the Beatles were rapidly maturing and changing, turning into expert craftsmen and musical innovators.
TRACK LISTING Side One

It Won't Be Long
All I've Got to Do
All My Loving
Don't Bother Me
Little Child
Till There Was You
Please Mr. Postman

Side Two

Roll over Beethoven
Hold Me Tight
You've Really Got a Hold on Me
I Wanna Be Your Man
Devil in Her Heart
Not a Second Time
Money (That's What I Want)  NOTE ON PACKING AND SHIPPING You will never receive a record from us packed in a flimsy cardboard mailer. We use HEAVY DUTY oversized cardboard boxes with cardboard protectors sandwiching the record and plenty of bubble wrap all around. After more than twenty years in the record business one thing we know is how to pack records properly, so rest assured the package will arrive at your door safe and sound.

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This is a factory sealed record, long out of print. This record cannot be guaranteed against defects of any kind once opened. This item is only sold "as is".

 

 

 

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