The Beatles Revolver In Mono Shootout

Not so much a shootout, but will a 1960's mono Revolver from Capitol serve as a good substitute for a newer 2014 mono version?

[archangelmusic]

i met klaus voorman the man who drew revolver at beatlefest, i boughtt an album at the convention then went to his display room where he had all his drawings and i got him to sign my revolver album

[Ricecooker]

I was looking trough the new arrivals bin at my local record store and I found a brizilian MONO pressing for 22 dollar with all 14 tracks a bit hard to come by but it has pretty nice sound quality.

[paulgreen]

1966 no fancy hi fi radiograms or case record players.

[JoshMaxPower]

Mono rules for this album for a lot of reasons, the biggest one being "Tomorrow Never Knows." Ditto "Pepper."

[bobsoldrecords]

A 1969 two box Parlophone mono pressing shouldn't cost much more than an American one and sounds way better.

[GWd]

Revolver isn’t Revolver without those songs…. I’m not really sure what it is? 😂

[franktaconelli]

The Beatles and their production team intended us to listen to all their work through 1967 (that includes Sgt Pepper) in mono…what else do you need to know?

[garylynncook]

Yes the capital reissue on cd.stereo mono are true different mixing. The revolver that's sold on its own.

[murch]

No comparison on the sound quality or the mastering?

[atrainradio]

I own three different copies of Revolver! I own a UK Mono 1st pressing with -2, -2 matrices, I have a US 1st Stereo Pitman pressing, and a 1st Stereo Venezuelan copy that uses the Parlophone UK Stereo metal work. Out of them I do have to say the UK Mono beats them, but between the two stereos, the US version actually sounds better to me, because I think it has more punch which really helps on songs like Taxman and She Said She Said.

[nankypooh]

When it comes to Beatles albums, and a few other bands from the 60s, the mono versions can be uniquely different, and sometimes better than the stereo version. I like bot versions of Revolver, but I gravitate towards the stereo version a bit more.