BEATLES in Mono 180 Gram 12" Vinyl Boxed Set W/ Hard-bound book still sealed
  $   230
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$ 230 Sold For
12 Feb 2017 Sold Date
22 Jan 2017 Start Date
$   275 Start price
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Welcome in and thank you for visiting this listing for a very fine boxed set of THE BEATLES in Mono on 200 gram purity vinyl.  This boxed set contains 14 of the Beatles original albums, a beautiful hard-bound book, STILL SEALED-NEVER OPENED or looked through, a poster and of course, the box itself. Please note:  I have listed this set as New because some of the LP's and the hard-bound book ARE new, never opened. The other records may or may not have been played and perhaps only once, if that.  I am selling this boxed set for a friend and they were true audio-phile purists and took extremely good care of all their vinyl lp's, high-end pressings and CD's.    The boxed set was released in 2014 I believe.
Albums included are as follows:

Please Please Me
With The Beatles 
A Hard Day's Night 
Beatles For Sale 
Help!
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles (2-LP)
Mono Masters (3-LP)

*Yellow Submarine and Abbey Road were not recorded in mono originally so they are not included in this boxed set of Mono recordings.

The original paper band that envelopes the box is still very much intact and other than a slight corner on the outer box itself where some of the white laminate/paper is lifting, the entire box and lp's are in very nearly perfect mint condition.  I have not listened to any of the opened lp's myself so I can't give grading marks here, but again, my friend and her husband were the kind of record collectors who wore gloves when handling any vinyl records!  I will ship this wonderful collector's boxed set in the U.S. only via either Media Mail or Parcel Select and I generally ship one day after cleared payment has been received.  Thanks so much for visiting this listing and have a wonderful Holiday Season!


And for a bit more information on the boxed set, I'm including here part of the original press release that prepared Beatles enthusiasts and purists for the release of this boxed set.

"London – June 12, 2014 – The Beatles in mono:  This is how most listeners first heard the group in the 1960s, when mono was the predominant audio format.  Up until 1968, each Beatles album was given a unique mono and stereo mix, but the group always regarded the mono as primary.  On September 8 (September 9 in North America), The Beatles’ nine U.K. albums, the American-compiled Magical Mystery Tour, and the Mono Masters collection of non-album tracks will be released in mono on 180-gram vinyl LPs with faithfully replicated artwork.  Newly mastered from the analogue master tapes, each album will be available both individually and within a lavish, limited 14-LP boxed edition, The Beatles In Mono, which also includes a 108-page hardbound book. 

In an audiophile-minded undertaking, The Beatles’ acclaimed mono albums have been newly mastered for vinyl from quarter-inch master tapes at Abbey Road Studios by GRAMMY®-winning engineer Sean Magee and GRAMMY®-winning mastering supervisor Steve Berkowitz.  While The Beatles In Mono CD boxed set released in 2009 was created from digital remasters, for this new vinyl project, Magee and Berkowitz cut the records without using any digital technology.  Instead, they employed the same procedures used in the 1960s, guided by the original albums and by detailed transfer notes made by the original cutting engineers.  

Working in the same room at Abbey Road where most of The Beatles’ albums were initially cut, the pair first dedicated weeks to concentrated listening, fastidiously comparing the master tapes with first pressings of the mono records made in the 1960s.  Using a rigorously tested Studer A80 machine to play back the precious tapes, the new vinyl was cut on a 1980s-era VMS80 lathe.  

Manufactured for the world at Optimal Media in Germany, The Beatles’ albums are presented in their original glory, both sonically and in their packaging. The boxed collection’s exclusive 12-inch by 12-inch hardbound book features new essays and a detailed history of the mastering process by award-winning radio producer and author Kevin Howlett.  The book is illustrated with many rare studio photos of The Beatles, fascinating archive documents, and articles and advertisements sourced from 1960s publications."





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