Sgt. Peppers (Optimal Source Series)
Another in the continuing Optimal Source Series. I'm putting together albums from the best available existing sources. All of the albums in this series will be from multiple sources. These are mostly remastered sources, but some are remixed. For remixes, I've stayed away from remixes that are significantly different than original mixes. Usually the only difference is the stereo placement.
This is one of the albums I said I wasn't going to issue, but I've been convinced otherwise. It's up to everyone else if it says seeded. This entire album comes from the Ebbetts Blue Box Sgt. Peppers. So, it's just a copy of that.
While I consider this album a work of art, and hated the idea of chopping it up by using songs from different sources, I DID do my work and compared against the Blue Album, One, and the Yellow Submarine Songtrack as well as the UHQR MFSL. In every case I couldn't find a single song that sounded better than the Blue Box. The MFSL tracks are all EQ'd to emphasize high and low frequencies and de-emphasize mid-range. Unfortunately, that means you lose instruments in the middle. The only source that seemed to have superior sound in some places was Love (Mr Kite, for example), but the mash-ups are either too incomplete or too different.
So, rest assured that this version of Sgt. Peppers has my stamp of approval as the Optimal source available.
Ebbetts Blue Box