After the 2009 CD release with included an entire box set of the mono and stereo versions vinyl fans were even more enthused over the vinyl release Capital and EMI promised as far back as 2008 but would not give a release date they just announced it was already being worked on.
Before I begin,one needs to understand that vinyl met it's demise at the end of the 1980's bowing out to The Compact Disc,this was NOT because CD sounded better,but was a marketing ploy to get consumers to buy the much inferior format.
NOW,as the vinyl revival began to re flourish in 2009 most of the techs that new how to process LP's had long since retired making room for an entire new generation of greenhorns that had to relearn the trade and be rest assured,making a vinyl LP is a lot more complicated than one might think.
The main problem with the 2012 vinyl Beatle remasters is that Capital and EMI contracted out several pressing plants that had to make so many copies per day this resulted in horrid quality control with several releases having drop outs surface noise skips and heavy static why? Because the pressing plates were not spot checked for defects or relubed properly resulting in pieces of vinyl getting lodged in grooves causing skipping. If the pressing plate does not have a mold release applied after so many records are pressed this will spell disaster.
Virtually every Beatle album I bought had problems,the worse being Abbey Road that not only sounded horrible where the tracks were clean but was inferior to the 2009 vinyl release taken from the 1997 remaster.
Below is a video with buyer describing his disgruntling experience, this is embarrassing and EMI owes us an apology
