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The Beatles In Mono

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All albums are packaged in miniature vinyl sleeves that faithfully recreate the original LP releases down to the finest detail including inner sleeves, inserts and are presented with the original LP labels on the CDs.

For decades, we've all been swimming in the great stereo sea, enjoying almost all of our audio content in stereo. Released in 1982, The Beatles Mono Collection is a boxed set of all Beatles' albums which were originally issued on mono LPs in the UK ( Please Please Me to Yellow Submarine). It was still to remain a "limited edition", but since it had already been certified platinum by the RIAA it was not limited to 10,000 copies as originally stated.The set debuted at number 40 on Billboard's Top 200 chart and the magazine reported that 12,000 copies were sold in its first week of release. The boxed set was released on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl on 8 September 2014, with each disc mastered directly from analog tape sources, rather than the digital remasters used for the CD release. Abbey Road and Let It Be were issued in the UK in mono on reel-to-reel tape and on LP in Brazil and other countries but, again, only as fold-downs from the respective stereo versions.

It's the most detailed account of the Beatles' lives up until they were about to release "Please Please Me". The vinyl set includes a 108-page book which also includes many rare photographs of the Beatles in Abbey Road Studio, fascinating EMI archive documents and evocative articles sourced from 1960s publications. Also omitted from this set, but included in the stereo box set, is a DVD containing the mini-documentaries included with the stereo remasters of the different albums. Though, of course, taste is a matter of subjective preference, so there's no shame in enjoying the stereo mixes of earlier Beatles records.My opinion is they should not have tried to make them stereo in the first place as it did not work well at all. The Beatles (commonly referred to as The White Album) was originally released in mono and stereo in the UK and several other countries, but in the United States, it was released only in stereo. When I bought my first box set of the collected works of The Beatles, I got it in stereo, because why wouldn't I?

Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, all the mono mixes were done together with the Beatles themselves, throughout the recording of the album, whereas the stereo mixes were done in only six days by Abbey Road personnel George Martin, Geoff Emerick and Richard Lush after the album had been finished, with none of the Beatles attending.IMHO hard panning like that can work okay for jazz (though I don't prefer it, I'll tolerate it) but doesn't work that well for rock music at all. In the last few years, I've been listening to a lot more pre-stereo recordings on LP and on 78 disks. Mono is archaic for me, the emergence of stereo was a very important advance, it gives realism to the reproduction. In the early albums they had to down mix everything to two tracks, so that the voices could be mixed closer and more clearly in mono.

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