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

I agree with Herman. The cost is so low that putting together large HD's with Raid controlers for auto backup is easy.

Unsound,
It's not hard to make backups at all. Have your computer person get you a raid controler and set it up as raid 10. This will write to 2 seperate drives automaticly. If you loose one the file will be safe on the other drive. I also do not let any of my consumer drives get older than 5 years.
You can also get a network drive system from HP. It will auto backup your files from your computer to itself anywhere you put the HP system in the network..

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.

Onhwy61,
Don't you think there is a big differance between artists who were not even alive when recorded music was first introduced and a group who practicly set standards in how recordings are done.
The Beatles and George Martin as well say that the mono's are what they feel are the best recordings. Not the stereo version even for SPLHCB and The White Album, they still prefered mono. They have not to my recollection ever said anything differant. So I agree with Wireless the artist intent is the standard.