The news broke early this morning, then those of us subscribing to beatles.com got their email around 10am.
The Hoffman forum had almost 2000 posts to the thread in 12 hours! One problem, folks posted the same press release about 40 times (literally). As I posted over there:
* EMI mastering group have good pedigree (Living In the Material World remaster is considered the best Beatle-oriented remaster to this point) and are specifically saying they used only about 5 min of no-noise (can you say "Martha My Dear intro") of over 550 min total, and little limiting (including none for the mono box). The site's samples sound very very promising
* masters are going to 24/192, so my $.02 is that EMI should release them in the native hi-rez, downloadable at some point.
(I would even by ok with Blu-Ray, like Neil's archives, but the licensing there would take months, likely).
* the mono box idea is probably a good one, as it allows for collectors and purists to grab both, but run-of-the-mill fans will buy just the stereo box
* we can only hope they sound as good as Love (obviously not remixed though), don't sound anything like "1", and finally give us the non-Dexterized catalog we've all been waiting for (assuming you don't count Dr. E's needledrops, etc.).
