John Lennon, good music, poor fidelity

Herman,

The recent MoFi editions of his (Lennon) solo CDs are excellent.They are also available on LP. Definately worth a try. I was skeptical, because they were remastered by Capitol not that long ago, and sounded fine. The MoFi releases are extremely impressive from the sound quality aspect.
As for the Beatles, it gets dicey on CD. The "Anthology" series are decent. I enjoy "Let It Be Naked" for the sound quality, but some people do not. "Yellow Submarine" got a remastering job in 1999 that surpasses the original.
The Beatles catalog is in dire need of the 24-bit makeover.
This has been an issue that resurfaces frequently, and may not be rectified until we get another format that survives.

Cbucki

Herman-to start off with The Beatles,the newest remastering and disc with the best sound quality is the One compilation.This really does sound good but obviously the production is of it's time especially the earlier stuff.
The tracks though do sound quite a bit better than their previous CD incarnations.

Lennon's solo albums were all remastered around 2000,I haven't checked these out but would imagine (you may call me a dreamer)that these will sound better than the previous versions and individual tracks will sound better than Legend.

There's a newer Lennon compilation called The Lennon Collection but it has fewer tracks than Legend and I'm not at all sure when it was mastered.

One is 24 bit remastering as is the Lennon reissues.

Regardless of mastering quality, everyone should own either Legend or Collection (or Shaved Fish) in order to have "Cold Turkey" in your collection. Lennon's finest solo track IMHO.