The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [MFQR 1-100] 24-bit/96kHz Vinyl Rip & CD-compatible

Posted By : Dr. Robert | Date : 16 Sep 2011 04:42:40 | Comments : 50 |

The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Vinyl rip in 24-bit/96kHz | FLAC | no cue or log (vinyl) | Full LP Artwork
877 MB (24/96) + 307 MB (RB) | FSc + WU + HF + FF | Genre: Rock & Roll | 1967
JVC Japan "SuperVinyl" / MFQR 1-100 ~ UHQR 200 Gram
Half-Speed Mastered by Stan Ricker @ MFSL, Los Angeles

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock group The Beatles, released in June 1967. Recorded over a 129-day period beginning in December 1966, Sgt. Pepper sees the band exploring further the experimentation of their previous album, Revolver. Making use of orchestras, hired musicians and innovative production techniques, the album incorporates elements of genres such as music hall, jazz, rock and roll, western classical and traditional Indian music; its lyrics deal particularly with themes of childhood and everyday life. Sgt. Pepper is a loose concept album that sees The Beatles performing as the fictitious band of the album's title. The cover art, depicting the band posing in front of a collage of famous individuals, has itself been widely acclaimed and imitated.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was a worldwide commercial success, spending a total of 27 weeks at the top of the UK Album Chart and 15 weeks at number one on the American Billboard 200. A defining album in the emerging psychedelic rock style, Sgt. Pepper was critically acclaimed upon release and won four Grammy awards in 1968. Often recognized by prominent critics and publications as one of the most influential albums in the history of popular music, Sgt. Pepper frequently ranks at or near the top of published lists of the greatest albums of all time. In 2003, the album was placed at number 1 in the Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

More info at wikipedia

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Track Listing
All songs written and composed by Lennon/McCartney except where noted.

Side One
1. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" 2:02
2. "With a Little Help from My Friends" 2:44
3. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" 3:28
4. "Getting Better" 2:47
5. "Fixing a Hole" 2:36
6. "She's Leaving Home" 3:35
7. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" 2:37

Side Two
1. "Within You Without You" (George Harrison) 5:05
2. "When I'm Sixty-Four" 2:37
3. "Lovely Rita" 2:42
4. "Good Morning Good Morning" 2:41
5. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)" 1:18
6. "A Day in the Life" 5:33

Released: 1 June 1967
Recorded: 6 December 1966 – 21 April 1967, Abbey Road and Regent Sound studios, London
Genre: Rock
Length: 39:42
Label: Parlophone
Producer: George Martin

Professional reviews
* Allmusic 5/5 stars link
* Blender 5/5 stars link
* Robert Christgau (A) link
* Crawdaddy! 5/5 stars Issue 1.11 1967
* Pitchfork Media (10.0/10.0) 2009
* Q 5/5 stars link
* Rolling Stone 5/5 stars link

Vinyl Ripping Notes

This Pepper UHQR courtesy of garybx. Many thanks for sharing

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Posted By: x_0001 Date: 16 Sep 2011 04:50:56

Thank you :)

So this is your own rip and not a Pbthal declick?

Posted By: Dr. Robert Date: 16 Sep 2011 04:58:28

@ x_0001

Yes this is 100% my rip for better or worse.

Posted By: muziclover Date: 16 Sep 2011 06:13:08

I can't wait.... Thanks!!!

Posted By: VanGaal Date: 16 Sep 2011 06:14:03

Definitely the best album of the best band from the best ripper :) Thank you, Doc!

Posted By: durant35 Date: 16 Sep 2011 06:19:22

How would it be comparing PBTHAL's?

Posted By: sultiris Date: 16 Sep 2011 06:33:45

Thanks, Doc

How does it compare to your 2010 rip from the box set, especially as your tt/cartridge/ic's have changed?

Posted By: terra6 Date: 16 Sep 2011 06:39:56

Another great upload. Cheers

Posted By: aksman Date: 16 Sep 2011 07:03:00

100% Doc = pure vinyl sound!! Thx for this awesome rip!

Posted By: Dr_G Date: 16 Sep 2011 07:10:15

Thank you very much! I will compare this with Pat's UHQR rip.

Posted By: Oaktree Date: 16 Sep 2011 07:31:56

I love this, thanks Doc.

Posted By: Mr. Greats Date: 16 Sep 2011 10:30:15

Thank you very much to best riper and the best student of the best riper.
God bless you both!

Posted By: FruitPoodle Date: 16 Sep 2011 11:27:05

Many thanks Doc and garybx. All the best.

Posted By: jpics Date: 16 Sep 2011 11:27:26

Thanks Doc im pretty sure this will sound amazing, also thanks to garybx for sharing it

Posted By: kikerock Date: 16 Sep 2011 11:34:23

Dear Doc,

a big thank for sharing this rip, it sounds fantastic. My best regards to you,
Kike :)

Posted By: Flying Ed Date: 16 Sep 2011 11:43:51

@ Dr. Robert

Doc how do you think it compares to your MFSL box rip?
Very interested in your opinion as a straight up comparison.
Regards,
F.E.

Posted By: jaisoncruz Date: 16 Sep 2011 11:46:46

Thanks Doc from Brazil!

Posted By: jorgeluiz Date: 16 Sep 2011 11:55:34

Another fantastic upload from cool riper.
Thank you so much Doc. :-)

Posted By: Miltiades Date: 16 Sep 2011 12:28:13

Thank You Doc :-)

Posted By: rangerjohn Date: 16 Sep 2011 12:31:49

Thanks Doc! Much appreciated.

Posted By: perlerorneq69 Date: 16 Sep 2011 12:36:06

Thank you for your time/effort ripping/posting this. :) p

Posted By: Ear Relevant Date: 16 Sep 2011 14:09:04

Thanks very much! I just knew this would eventually appear, and from none other than DocRob.

These Sgt. Pepper MFSL UHQR LPs come from a limited run of 5000 discs in 1980. The retail price was $60.
(In 1980, I worked in a high-end audio shop that sold these.)

Today they fetch many multiples of that!

DocRob / Garybx - I am curious what pressing number was this disc?

EDIT: Woops. My memory did not serve me well on this one. Just checked and my opened and played disc is serial # 1980. I bought two at the same time and the other remains sealed. I am pretty sure that I paid $60 each (discounted?) to the shop I worked at, but I can't locate the actual receipt to confirm. The odd thing is, I recall knowing about this release from the MFSL rep while I still worked at the shop in 1980, but the MFSL serial # sheet clearly states it was pressed in July '82. Oh well...

As for the sound? Compared to the USB 24/44.1 release -- to my ears and on my system -- this one has a more pleasant upper midrange and high end that is more listenable at higher volumes. While it lacks a tiny bit of detail compared to the USB, which can be overbright, it never glares at me like the USB version sometimes does.

With this fine release, do we even need to think about sampling another Sgt. Peppers in the future?

Thanks again DocRob/Garybx!

Posted By: durant35 Date: 16 Sep 2011 14:38:03

I've downloaded and the serial number is 2059. Do you mean the retail price "was" $60 in "1980"? What's current range of nowadays?

Posted By: Dr. Robert Date: 16 Sep 2011 14:49:10

@ durant35

As I recall my Pepper UHQR cost $75 back in October 1982 (the actual release date). I sold my copy back in 2008 for $250. A recent eBay sale of a sealed UHQR went for $800 (cheap). A mint copy is now offered for $600.

Posted By: durant35 Date: 16 Sep 2011 15:14:43

Wow, expensive music makes me more impressive. Since this is one of the best albums of all-time and in such particular limited edition, is there even more expensive album in the market?

Posted By: ponchoman Date: 16 Sep 2011 16:47:50

Definitely an upgrade over pbthal's rip from last year. This is a crisp pressing, but your rip manages to be less sibilant (cleaner, no aliasing from the steep resampler setting he was using at the time). Also, there seems to be some sense of stereo cross-talk, allowing for a slight sense of 3-dimensional depth that the 2009 Stereo Remaster lacks. Lots of high end detail and sparkle here that's also lacking from the Remasters. Very nice! Thank you very much for this!

Posted By: hifidelix Date: 16 Sep 2011 17:15:39

Great choice,excellent work as always.Thank you Doc.

Posted By: Ghost of Hedonism Date: 16 Sep 2011 17:19:55

Definetely not an upgrade over pbthal's rip. Don't get it wrong, Doc, it is a SUPERB rip at high level, as usual. But pbthal's rip is SUPERB too ... and it plays on a slightly higher level imho.
Ponchoman, you must not compare pbthal's 44.1 kHz resampled version, this is weak due to technical aspekts, so you're right concerning this. But if you compare the original 192 kHz rip pbthal offered or - better - the declicked resampled 96 kHz derivate from this (can be found here on avax) you will notice a little more dynamics and slightly more detailed channel separation. Doc's version is somehow fuller, pbthals has more air and detail. I just gave it a listen for a few tracks with two different headphones (both version seem very similar at first glance). DR is also a little bit on pbthal's side.

Posted By: PBTHAL VINYL RIPS Date: 16 Sep 2011 18:20:35

I am sure Doc's rip can stand on its own just fine (have not yet listened to it) since he is the finest of the core Avax rippers and a great guy to boot.

Posted By: tubert Date: 16 Sep 2011 18:24:39

Thanks ripper who learns from rippers and helps rippers who help beginning rippers rip. And with that I think I'll go listen to this rip.

}---:)

P.S. And thnx gbx too.

Posted By: haddemall Date: 16 Sep 2011 18:46:15

PBTHAL or Doc......I am a newbie and still amazed that I can come here and enjoy their work for free with just a few clicks. Albums they spend tons of money on. Truly and utterly amazed. Gentlemen - thanks.

Posted By: ponchoman Date: 16 Sep 2011 18:56:33

Yeah, the redbook version is the one I have. I think I had the raw 192 rip briefly. Don't listen enough to warrant hanging on to that. :P

Posted By: musicisgood4u Date: 16 Sep 2011 19:58:49

Doc, this is an excellent rip and very pleasing to listen to. A BIG thank you goes out to you for doing all the work you do with the utmost care and professionalism, and for sharing it with the rest of us.

Posted By: buggly Date: 16 Sep 2011 20:26:21

Thank you very much, Doc & Garybx! Looking forward to listening and comparing.

Posted By: garybx Date: 16 Sep 2011 23:13:14

@tubert

Thanks to you for giving me the push that I needed to get off the couch and learn how to start sharing my music (BIG thanks to Dr. Robert for all his patient help in educating me to all the intricacies of the process).

@ Dr. Robert

Thanks for another great rip.

I think that I paid $50 for this album back when it was released. Who knows what the "retail price" may have been - maybe I just had a generous dealer! But I remember that $50 was an outrageous amount to pay for an album back then. It was hard enough to shell out the bucks for regular MFSL and other audiophile pressings, but this one started a whole 'nuther price/quality level. It reminds me of back in the mid-70s when I bought the Beatles blue box. I figured that I must have been nuts to spend $100 for a single music item, even if it was 13 LPs.

Posted By: gioma Date: 17 Sep 2011 10:14:53

Many thanks Doc (and garybx) for one more great vinyl rip.

Posted By: kwork Date: 18 Sep 2011 14:39:42

Oh, fabulous! Thanks to Garybx and Doc for getting this to us. Another Pepper rip is never a bad thing.

Posted By: wormdp Date: 18 Sep 2011 20:16:47

Sorry, screw it, I am just happy that the UHQR rips are coming forward. Having owned and sold the disc's long before this era of "saving" existed, this is the best I can ever ask for. The disc's I used to own now end up on DVD and I still can listen at the best possible sound. Thanks so much for everyone with the contributions to the web. I am at your service at anytime to extend the existence of "pure" audio.

Posted By: The Purple Parrot Date: 20 Sep 2011 07:32:27

Thank you all for the opportunity to enjoy very rare/expensive rocking horse droppings :D

Posted By: x_0001 Date: 21 Sep 2011 07:24:23

Sound quality is best I have heard of this title so far, much better than your previous MFSL LP.

Awesome. :)

... I want the DSOTM ;)

Posted By: appreciative Date: 22 Sep 2011 02:39:20

"Vera, Chuck and Dave": Thank you!

This summer, at a hifi show, I heard "A Day In The Life" played in a small room from vinyl (don't know which copy) on equipment worth as much as my newer car. You could tell that everyone in the room was sharing something special. I just listened to the same song on my very modest setup and there's a ton more detail and music here.

Posted By: umbilical Date: 22 Sep 2011 18:43:32

thanks DOC!!!

this is the complete list of this ones?

UHQR 1-005 Supertramp Crime of the Century
UHQR 1-017 Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon
UHQR 1-025 Earl Klugh Finger Paintings
UHQR 1-035 Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman
UHQR 1-084 Alan Parsons Project I, Robot
UHQR 1-100 The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
UHQR 1-507 Maazel, Cleveland Symphony Orchestra Feste Romane
UHQR 1-510 Sir George Solti, London Philharmonic Holst: The Planets

you have all?

Posted By: Dr. Robert Date: 22 Sep 2011 20:07:16

@ umbilical

I only have or can borrow the three I have ripped. Early this year someone from Australia offered to bring his DSOTM UHQR when he visits America late this year. However I have not heard from him nor can find his contact info. If anyone owns the others or would like to donate towards a missing title I of course would do a rip. Same goes for any other MFSL release I do not have. And I still have about 20 rock/pop titles to rip.

As far as DSOTM I have the new CD/DVD box set on preorder. The DVD is to include a flat PCM transfer of the original stereo mix, plus the Alan Parsons quad mix. If provided at 24/96 or better it should sound better than any vinyl rip could.

Posted By: walrus64 Date: 27 Sep 2011 05:20:03

Thank you Doc!!!

Posted By: dazedcat Date: 29 Sep 2011 18:03:17

Thanks Doc. This is a great rip. Many thanks for taking the time to do this.

Why are some Beatle fans so damned annoying?

Posted By: Laughaminute Date: 29 Sep 2011 22:52:28

On Redbook absolutely stunning wow. Thanks for your A.M.A.Z.I.N.G work Very much appreicated

Posted By: Franco58 Date: 01 Oct 2011 16:59:19

Thanks to garybx for supplyng the album and to Doc Robert for yet another super concoction :)

Posted By: cueto Date: 02 Oct 2011 17:36:57

Happy day for audiophiles! Thank you for this.

Posted By: sinala Date: 07 Oct 2011 16:34:26

Thank you garybx & Doc!!
I just love this rip, never heard so much detail.

Posted By: umbilical Date: 23 Nov 2011 04:18:57

@Dr Robert

thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted By: dedero Date: 16 May 2012 22:05:16

Thank you so much!!, your equipment is awesome!

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