Buying Beatles Remasters- Mono or Stereo?

[sleepysurf]

For those of you who've bought, or plan on buying, the new Remastered Beatles Box Sets... are you getting the Mono or Stereo version, or both?

 

[theWB]

Pre-Ordered both.
According to UPS tracking should be here tomorrow

 

[Rich]

Why, both of course.

 

[User211]

Perhaps I shouldn't respond because I haven't ordered, I just thought I'd make the point that I have heard it all so many times before I can't actually listen to it anymore... good though much of it undoubtedly is.

 

[amey01]

I haven't ordered yet either - basicall because I just don't actively listen to it enough to justify the extreme cost. Listen regularly - yes, but actively listen? - usually not. It just gets cranked up with friends, etc.

That - and I really REALLY have a problem with buying music I already own. Remastered or not.

Oh, and one more thing - I BET it will be released on vinyl some time too - enticing half of you to buy it yet again! ARRGH!

 

[FISH_MAN]

maybe if somebody gave me the sets for free I would listen when I got really bored.they are great musicians but I just really can't listen anymore.

 

[David Matz]

Here's a stereo/ mono track by track comparison opinions in a $120K system to help the decision making:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-0906-beatles-fanssep06,0,7691073,full.story

 

[babydoc]

Omni-Mono, Selected Stereo

For those of you who've bought, or plan on buying, the new Remastered Beatles Box Sets... are you getting the Mono or Stereo version, or both?

I ordered the Mono box just because most of the early stereo mixes were goddawful and I didn't think that remixing them would necessarily be an improvement-the old "lipstick on a pig" rationale. I selectively ordered the stereo releases just because there were only a few that I would listen to again, having had all of them on original vinyl 40+ years ago: Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper, and Abbey Road. I long ago gave away the original CD reissues because they just didn't sound good. Given the time, effort, love, and research done on the new ones, I have fond hopes of getting back to the garden, if it ever existed in the first place.
At the very least, I will have some additional memorabilia in the box which I didn't have before, and, for one brief shining moment, when I put the silver discs in my Esoteric P-03/D-03/G-ORb stack and sit in front of my CLX's, I can pretend that I am 21 all over again.

 

[tonyc]

My wife went nuts when I told her I was planning to order both. So I bought the stereo mixes. They DO sound wonderful!

 

[Gordon]

My wife bought the stereo set as gift. The early pieces are basically mono and I can tell that the Fab 4 were experimenting. As the collection progresses, I can hear the gradual fine tuning and is a pleasure to here the development of the mixing.

Gordon