Recent content by Brian Hatton

I believe the Beatles and the studio engineers only worked on a mono presentation. What you get in the Beatles in Mono boxset is said to be what they intended the listener to hear, not stereo. Any ‘stereo’ was at best an after hours project, hence the apparently lazy approach. If you crave the...

While I don’t know what you drive, as fuel prices have always been significantly higher in Europe you’ve probably been driving something more efficient than a typical automatic large American car. The fuel prices in Norway are surprising given how enormously wealthy North Sea oil has made the...

Who takes a weapon to the movies (not counting kids with their plastic lightsabers)?

I’m not being sarcastic - are you losing some of your hearing sensitivity? This will start at higher frequencies, so the harmonics in speech will be affected. I have this problem. I also find centre channel invariably needs boosting to some degree with dts soundtracks and sometimes with atmos. A...

I thought I was one of only a few who do this! I have lots, so apart from: Almost Famous Diggstown Dinner Rush and A Hard Days Night I could include some series of films, such as: The Incredibles 1&2 Toy Story 1-4 Back to the Future 1-3 The 5 Bourne films The 4 Hunger Games films The Lord of...

Selling my Gibson Les Paul Black beauty 40 years ago for £300 🙄