As our test case, look up something off the first couple of Beatles records, like A Taste Of Honey off Please Please Me.

But, I'm wondering if there's a release that has true mono that never got the fake stereo processing.I now noticed that it was in fake pseudo-stereo, which I don't think I even noticed when I first got it. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience.

Alas, I posted this comparison on the now-defunct All About Jazz forum, where it is now inaccessible to anyone, including its author.Of course, this was a huge oversimplification and I was wrong to think that the choice was so obvious, but it's an easy oversimplification to make in the modern day, especially if you're on the younger side of the spectrum. The set debuted at number 40 on Billboard's Top 200 chart and the magazine reported that 12,000 copies were sold in its first week of release.

An unknown quantity of unnumbered red boxes (sometimes reported to be between 300 and 500) were issued in the UK, while 1000 numbered black boxed sets were assembled and issued in the United States by the Dutch East India Trading Co.Also omitted from this set, but included in the stereo box set, is a DVD containing the mini-documentaries included with the stereo remasters of the different albums. The previously unavailable true mono mixes of the four new Beatles songs released on the Yellow Submarine album (" Only a Northern Song", " All Together Now", " Hey Bulldog" and " It's All Too Much"), originally intended for a separate, but ultimately scrapped mono EP which would have also included a mono mix of " Across the Universe", are included on the Mono Masters compilation. There's a complicated answer there, but you can hear for yourself what a good stereo Beatles mix sounds like if you decide to listen to a later record, like Abbey Road.