So, What is the Verdict on the Beatles Box Sets?

Wireless200,
The Beatles albums up to the white album were mixed with the Beatles in the room for mono only. They were not there for the stereo releases. Back in the day when they were release most people had mono sytems in their cars and at home or listened on transister radios.
Stereo was used for classical music for the most part back then.
If you read some of the reviews of the mono mixes it explains this in more detail.

Wireless, Shadorne, Dlcockrum, Alpass---Finally, someone agrees with me: The sound on the stereo re-masters has been altered, and for the worse: Thin and bright.

Has any of you listened to any of the new mono re-masters yet? I really like the sound of the 1987 monos (PPM, WTB, HDN, BFS). I'm worried that the sound of the monos has been changed just like the stereo versions.

I've listened to a couple of the monos today. Much better. Can't figure out what people are thinking when they like the stereo versions better. Even my 4 and 8 year old said they like the mono better and I wasn't quizzing them about it either. My 8 year old starting saying how good it sounds (mono) and she's pretty familiar with Sgt Pepper's. I didn't bring it up that it was a different version. They don't know anything about the versions. Honestly I listed to the first 10 seconds and was immediately struck by how much better they sounded. I thought my ears were playing tricks on me and so I started a-b'ing the first 10 seconds and could easily tell the difference.

my ears actually hurt while listening abby road yesterday.

Thanks Wireless. The real test, though, is to compare the four 1987 monos with their 2009 mono counterparts. Has anyone done that yet?