The half-speed mastering process is said to bring "a superior listening experience with a new level of depth and clarity."Miles Showell, one of the world's leading exponents of half-speed cutting, was in charge of the process at Abbey Road. He says: "Anything recorded in a professional studio that still sounds good, is going to benefit from being half-speed mastered. That's the beauty of it.

"You don't need the world's greatest turntables, and with a moderately reasonable hi-fi deck, something you order for about �200 or up from there, you'd easily hear the difference between a normal cut and a half-speed cut.