Beatles "Love" Brings Hi-Fi To a New Generation

Love it or hate it, the Beatles "Love" is bringing hi-fi values to a new generation of music fans. The rise of digital technologies is creating a hi-fi dark age where audio quality is not just taking a back seat to digital convenience and portability, it's being pushed to the back of the bus.

We're seeing mass migration to Home Theater In a Box systems, micro-satellite speakers and Bose dubious "mystery" systems. Satellite radio's bitrates are thinner than a thong bikini and make 128 bit MP3s sound high resolution by comparison. With the digital age is a slightly different attitude toward recorded music. It's all about scalability and mass numbers of sound files per Gig. Closing your eyes and really listening to the music is becoming an outmoded idea of music's analogue past.

But now there's "Love", a new collection of remixed Beatles tunes given the full high resolution 5.1 DVD Audio treatment. Love is a 26 track mash up of various Beatles songs used in the Cirque Du Soleil. The new recordings were produced by a father and son team consisting of George and Giles Martin, George Martin is the original producer of the Beatles. Early reviews indicate many are sitting back and drinking in the full beauty of the sounds in Love.

Mark Richardson from Pitchforkmedia says "Love is turning everyone into an audiophile". That can only be a good thing.

4 comments
Posted by keith on December 23,2006 at 11:34 PM
why make something old sound new? OH YEAH MORE MONEY!
i prefer the original recordings.
Posted by Alan on December 22,2006 at 7:30 PM
It would be nice to see on vinyl just for the format to match the other original releases fans have but of course the sound could never be the same quality as DVD A . I guess the pirates will have a great time. Where can I get a copy on vinyl ?
Posted by Mick on December 21,2006 at 1:05 PM
Studawg clearly has no taste.  You can keep your dance music - no one will be talking about that crap 40 years later.
Posted by Studawg on December 20,2006 at 3:59 PM
The fact that it isn't released on vinyl and doesn't have any BPM's listed means it won't be filling any dancefloors soon. Boring old music for your dad!