Mastered At Abbey Road Studios - Half Speed Mastering

Not the first place I'd go to for the best remasters but I would recommend "Back to Black" by Abbey Road

I've never heard a good record from this series. And after browsing the reviews for many of these releases, it seems there is no consensus on these being good. A common theme on all these releases by reviewers is that this series destroys the original presence the music has. As well as sibilance problems, muted lows... And that's my experience too. Whenever I see "MILES" on the run outs, I immediately recoil. Really disappointing.

Horrible.
Everything I've heard about the re-releases from the Abbey Studios so far has been unacceptable (Bob Marley, Dustv Springfield, Stones..).
Half speed mastering has no advantages whatsoever.
Greetings Joachim

I'm still not fully convinced on half-speed cuts. On the one hand, they have way more depth to them, high frequencies are nice and smooth and they seem to have the magical effect of just making the whole room filled with sound. However, they aren't without there faults. They HAVE to be from a digital master, analog is just too much for it to take and it ends up just being a tinny noises mess. I know Abbey Road uses a De-S'er and other equipment that just can't be used on a straight analog feed vary well. One problem Iv particularly noticed is that as the lathe is cutting half speed it also means its as much as it can have the time to get all the detail in, it also means that it just ends up at points making to big of a cut ending up in things like inner grove distortions and highs that sound like there peaking. I suppose that it could be fixed if they used a stronger adhesive on the lacker? All in all, I think they sound better than your standard-issue and think it could really take off from here. I'll keep buying but room for thought i guess.