Beatles Vinyl Mono Box..do you have one?

I have original UK Parlophone stereo LP’s, and the mono box. The early stereos are silly---vocals and instruments panned hard left and hard right (sounds like our political environment ;-). The Beatles and George Martin put all their energy into creating the mono mixes, leaving the stereo to an assistant engineer.

By the time of Sgt. Pepper, stereo was being used to enhance the psychedelic nature of the music of that time, and some Beatles aficionados prefer that album in stereo. Sgt. Pepper was recorded on multiple 4-track machines, "bouncing" tracks from one machine to another as additional parts were added. Not a great recording, I much prefer Rubber Soul and Revolver.

The mono boxset cost $300 when I bought it; shoulda bought a couple more ;-) .

I have the stereo version. I love them. Bought when they came out. Rubber Soul is my favorite. I have friends that bought the mono, saying they were totally more true to the original... they do not listen to them.

 I have the mono set. Glad I bought it when I did....

Bought it when it came out, listened all the way through. Since bought the UK stereo blue box. Have not listened to most (yet) of those. However did compare The White Album from the blue box to the MFSL version which I then sold to help fund the blue box.

Yep @slaw, the MoFi Beatles LP’s are not so hot. I sold all mine too, which more than paid for the mono boxset. The MoFi Beatles were done in the early days of the company, mixed and mastered by a now-deceased engineer who was a bass player and had a propensity for boosting low frequencies all out of proportion. But imo The Beatles recordings are not all that good anyway, and can be made to sound only so good. The music shines through in spite of that.

The MoFi production chain has been vastly improved since that time (thanks to Tim de Paravicini), and the guys now doing their mixing and mastering (Ryan K. Smith in particular) are really, really good. Their current catalog is mighty fine.