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For years the most anticipated vinyl reissues have been from the one, the only Beatles catalog. Finally, after a delay due to the meticulousness of the remastering process and assorted other hurdles, that day has come. The Beatles catalog is getting the audiophile treatment! 180-gram vinyl pressings cut at Abbey Road Studios using the non-limited 24-bit digital masters sourced from the original analog master tapes!

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These titles update the Beatles classic albums, which have continued to sell strongly and attract new generations of fans long after the quartet disbanded in 1970. For this reissue, individual titles were sourced from the original master tapes. Then each title was copied into 24-bit/44.1 kHz files with no compression and cut to lacquer at Abbey Road Studios. It was a painstaking process with maximum attention paid to every detail.

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This is where it all ends. While recorded in 1969, Let It Be remains the Beatles' final salvo due to its release in 1970 and the internal tensions that mark the album. Filled with a litany of underrated gems, it also hosts the universally recognized gospel-laden title track, on a par with the best material the Beatles ever recorded.

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For its Beatles' Stereo Albums series on LP, Capitol/Apple turned to a crack team of engineers to remaster the entire studio catalog from the original sources. The team, including Guy Massey, Steve Rooke and Sam Okell with Paul Hicks and Sean Magee undertook a four-year restoration process for the LP versions, combining state-of-the-art equipment, vintage studio gear and rigorous testing to meet the highest fidelity standards and produce authentic unsurpassed sound rivaling the original LPs. There is no longer any need to pay hundreds of dollars for Japanese pressings!

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Controversial due to its involvement of Phil Spector, who actually left a bulk of the work untouched save for a handful of tracks, Let It Be marks a return to a drier, back-to-basics live-in-the-studio sound. The band's operating rule while making the album was simple: no overdubs.

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Capitol's new LP highlights this characteristic, as the folksy harmonies on "Two of Us" and straight-ahead charge of "I've Got a Feeling" demonstrate. Seldom, if ever, were the Beatles so raw and direct. For all of its alleged flaws, Let It Be remains brilliant. And the orchestral and choir arrangements on the Spector-treated "The Long and Winding Road" simply soar. – Acoustic Sounds