I bought the "Italian" MFSL Beatles collection. They are obvious fakes and the sound quality is very poor, far worse than the plain CDs in the stores. The "Japanese" versions are also fakes but have sound quality about equal to the regular commercial disks. All of the "audiophile" gold CDs from the far east on ebay are just lousy quality CDRs. Save your money and learn from my experience. Just to clarify Phild's post, MFSL did make plenty of legitimate gold CDs, just none from the Beatles.
