Mobile Fidelity Beatles 14 Lp Box Set

The Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab Beatles Box Set
The Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab or MFSL Beatles Box set was released in 1982 exact date unknown to me, either October or November . It s official name is The Beatles/ The Collection and it s catalogue number is MFSL BC-1.
Before the box set, MFSL had already released three of the Beatles LPs as individual items. The first was Abbey Road either on December 1979 or January 1980. The process for the discs included using the master tapes when available and then utilizing half-speed mastering of the lacquers. This was then pressed onto super vinyl when sent from California MFSL headquarters to the Yokohama factory of the Victor company in Japan in order to fabricate the metal masters and the press the records. This super vinyl was transparent when held up to light and was heavy vinyl and harder than regular vinyl in order to establish the best sound possible. The master tape used for Abbey Road was actually the Capitol sub-masters and not the original from Abbey Road.
The second Beatles LP from MFSL was Magical Mystery Tour . The master used for this project was actually from EMI but this version originated from Capitol and was used by EMI for the 1970s re-issue. This didn t make much sense when considering that this version contained second generation stereo for eight songs and fake duophonic stereo for three songs. This second release was put out on February 01 1981.
The third Beatles LP from MFSL was The Beatles White Album issued on January 07 1982. The master tapes used for this project were also sub-masters from Capitol.
The box set was then released. The remaining 10 LPs were as follows: Please Please Me using the original master tape from EMI , With The Beatles also using the original master tape from EMI A Hard Day s Night also using the original master tape from EMI , Beatles For Sale using a re-mix from the four track tape , Help using a re-mix tape , Rubber Soul using a re-mix tape , Revolver using the original master tape from EMI , Sgt. Pepper using a re-mix tape , Yellow Submarine using a re-mix tape and Let It Be using a corrected copy tape . It is also interesting to note that Pepper in this set does not contain the recording of the high frequency or the inner groove .
Supposedly, 25,000 copies of this box set were released. All sold out within a year.