The Beatles Mono CD Box Set

Emerson,

Can't say I hear any general high end roll off with these.

The quality of recordings from disk to disk does vary greatly still but there are really no steps backwards with any of these compared to the original CD masters that I can clearly detect.

Agree with Shadorne that louder is better with these. At reasonable volume, many of the tracks, especially the older R&R oriented ones, really come alive.

I find the bass levels in particular to be more satisfying with these in general. Its possible the high end seems more recessed in comparison to the original CD masters as a result, but there are no general issues with the high end that I could cite otherwise.

I have both the stereo and mono sets and it is the stereo versions that seem to be tipped to the high end. The mono set is free of this. From what I have read, the mono versions master tapes were cleaned up, but otherwise were pretty much left alone in the remastering process with little or no equalization.

Before the mono set, my wife bought me the latest single cd stereo version of Let It Be. The highs produced by that cd are what I'd expect from remasters. Looks like something about my setup is not allowing the performance of the mono discs to come through.

Maybe your speaker placement?

foster,

of course, be careful about tweaking things to optimize any particular recording. all recordings are of course different and have their pluses and minuses. optimizing one that does not have the top end you are expecting could push others that do into the red zone.