The Beatles In Stereo Box Set Review
Now that I’ve had The Beatles In Stereo Box Set for almost a full week I think it’s time to do a review of the set as a whole. Now that I’ve had a chance to hear all of the remastered Beatles albums I can say without any doubt that they sound much better than the old Beatles CDs.
It’s fantastic how much more clear these new discs sound in comparison to the old discs. I hear lots of details in these songs that I have never heard before! It’s really like rediscovering The Beatles timeless music again as I go through each of the 16 CDs in The Beatles In Stereo CD Box Set.
There’s already been a lot of debate among fans of The Beatles over which box set sounds better; The the stereo or the mono? This debate is raging of course because The Beatles Mono CD Box Set was also released on 9/9/9.
In my opinion the stereo CDs sound far better for the later albums because they allow for greater clarity which is particularly essential considering how complex many of these later mixes are. With the first four or five albums it’s a closer call. I still like the clarity of the stereo mixes even with the earlier albums, but it is true that the really wide panning can be a bit distracting so I think there’s a good case for the more “powerful” sounding mono mixes too!
In short, I’m very glad that I bought both box sets and I really think they are both essential for serious Beatles fans. After all the mono mixes were how the albums were originally intended to be heard so they have great historical value, but the stereo mixes sound really really good, so you have to have those too.
And while the major reason I’m so excited about this box set is, of course, how great the music sounds – another great thing about it is the awesome packaging. An informative booklet with many pictures and notes on the historical context of the album and the recording process for that album is included with each CD.
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