MikeH
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With the Beatles in Mono box, are the albums in the box the same as the standalone releases? If I were to buy a box missing some titles and could buy the missing ones solo, would it would be the same quality/pressing wise?
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lonestarlahr
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I believe so, but I'll let someone who actually knows weigh in here.
If I could find any of the mono releases out in the wild (not at a 2-4x markup), I'd be a happy camper.
MikeH
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I was bidding on an incomplete Beatles in Mono box set so was just curious. Ended up losing and someone got a pretty reasonable deal on it!
i have searched everywhere for any Beatles mono represses in the past 6 months or so. Nearly impossible to find anywhere...and I don’t wanna spend $100 on each title
Crabbers
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Which ones are you looking for?
MikeH
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Revolver, Let It Be and Abbey Road were the three main ones I wanted to grab. Of course three of the more popular ones haha.
Poly-Rythmo
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Well, the last two aren't in mono so that should make it easier!
MikeH
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I'm an idiot...those are the MoFi titles I was looking for. For mono, was looking for Revolver, Rubber Soul and Sgt Pepper.
Ouch they are the three hardest to find! Particularly Peppers! White (because it was so damn expensive on release) and Mono Masters (which is a really brilliant compilation) are usually the easiest to find! The pressings in the box are identical to the individual ones too, they actually came out on the same day!
Crabbers
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It’s funny too cuz that rubber soul was around the longest
Was it? My local had copies of white up until last year because its list price was €60...
Crabbers
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Both of those and mono masters around here
MikeH
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Yea...I may eventually give up on finding them. I was on an auction last night for an incomplete Beatles in Mono Box. It had "sealed" copies of Please Please Me, With The Beatles, A Hard Day’s Night, Beatles For Sale, and Magical Mystery Tour. It ended up selling for under $200. But I figure once I add trying to buy those other titles, it would still come out to around $500 or so.
Yeah I think if you hunt you’ll find mono masters still, I think again cuz it was expensive, but it’s a brilliant triple album compilation and well worth the money to me!
I sold my pepper for about 200 quid. Some people will buy any old shite these days
MikeH
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haha yea. i'd never pay that for it. i think the MoFi ship has sailed for me on most of the Beatles MoFis to be honest.
I liked the idea of having the monos. They just never ever got played. It was picking them up and not playing them for 3 years that made me realise that if its not Help, Revolver or the White Album (and Abbey Road in the stereo bundle) then I'm not that Beatles orientated anymore so I flogged mono Pepper and picked up a 50th in case I decide to give it a rare go. I didnt even bother getting cheapo stereo versions to replace the rest.
Revolver gets a fairly regular run out though. The Mono is great.
MikeH
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Yea. I think I just want a few of either MoFi or the monos. But when I think about how often I might actually listen to them, might not be worth the pricing. Might just end up getting some high-res downloads.
Weirdly though I listen to Ram loads. All Things Must Pass too (goes without saying though an i think that aside from the white album and revolver it slays every Beatles as a group album)... And I'm definitely partial to Band on the Run and Venus and Mars. There's a chance that maybe I just played them less in my teens so am happier to spin as an adult.
Yeah don't get carried away and buy things you don't listen to. I'm happy to have all the stereo mono and 50ths and go for MoFis because I spin the Beatles a lot. There is other stuff no doubt that you'd happily have multiple different mixes of that I'd not want. Curate your collection to you and what you spin.
I have a decent number of early MoFis and like them all, including Abbey Road. The ones I’m not sold on are the 200 Gram “Anadisc” from the late ‘90s. I like the new pressings too, save the MFSL/Silver Series which can be hit or miss.