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There are many reasons you should buy The Beatles Mono Box Set (assuming, of course, that you enjoy their music anywhere near as much as I do.) This article focuses on just 7 of those many reasons.

(1) You cannot buy the the mono Beatles CDs by themselves. For example if you want to buy the mono mix of Sgt. Pepper, you will need to buy the entire Beatles in Mono Box Set. This is different from the Beatles in Stereo Box Set because the remastered stereo CDs contained in that set are also the official Beatles CDs now and can be bought on their own too.

(2) In many cases the mono mixes of The Beatles songs sound significantly different from the stereo mixes. Of course any serious Beatles fan is going to want to hear these significant differences. One example of these differences is that the backwards guitar in “I’m Only Sleeping” comes in earlier in mono.

(3) The stereo panning on many of stereo mixes is really out of control (vocals all on one side, instruments all on the other.) With these mono mixes you don’t have to worry about that.

(4) People such as Geoff Emerick (The Beatles recording engineer) and John Lennon (I think you know who he is) have said that the mono versions of some of their albums (Sgt. Pepper in particular) are far superior to the stereo versions. Now you can hear for yourself what were talking about.

(5) These are the original mono mixes that The Beatles themselves worked on back in the 1960s. These are the albums as they were intended to be heard by the band, George Martin, & Geoff Emerick.

(6) Each CD comes in a replica of the original vinyl LP packaging. This is a huge upgrade over the packaging of the old CDs.

(7) While the box set does not include the Yellow Submarine album (as the George Martin instrumentals were never mixed in mono) it does include the actual Beatles songs in mono as a part of the Mono Masters compilation.