THE BEATLES - The Collection

Item Description

Vinyl,
LP Album Reissue Remastered Stereo

Limited, numbered Box set includes:
MFSL 1-101 Please Please Me
MFSL 1-102 With The Beatles
MFSL 1-103 A Hard Day's Night
MFSL 1-104 Beatles For Sale
MFSL 1-105 Help!
MFSL 1-106 Rubber Soul
MFSL 1-107 Revolver
MFSL 1-100 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
MFSL 2-072 A/B The Beatles
MFSL 2-072 C/D The Beatles
MFSL 1-108 Yellow Submarine
MFSL 1-023 Abbey Road
MFSL 1-047 Magical Mystery Tour
MFSL 1-109 Let It Be

Included is a “Geo–Disc”, used to align the cartridge.


The Beatles: The Collection was a vinyl box set of UK released Beatles LPs, remastered at half speed from the original stereo master recordings, except for Magical Mystery Tour which was mastered from Capitol Records' submasters with the last three tracks in rechanneled stereo. Each album was pressed on virgin vinyl by the Victor Company of Japan (JVC) ensuring the best sound quality possible. The album covers were replaced with photographs of tape boxes and log sheet, which included splitting 'The Beatles' into 2 separate covers. The original album covers were included in a 40-pg booklet which also featured a certificate of authenticity on the inside front cover to certify the copy as "one of a limited number of Original Master Recording™ sets manufactured by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab." The certificate included the "Limited Edition Number".
MFSL repressed a second run of the Beatles Box Set for a total production run of 25,000 until October 1985.

This release is a first pressing (1982). Initial copies included an 8-pg "Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab" catalog for "Summer / Fall 1982" and a "Certificate of Limited Warranty".

[Runouts]
The runouts have 3 basic components - MFSL identifier, JVC identifier and Mastering. MFSL identifier and Mastering are etched except as noted below for the former, while the JVC identifier is stamped.
[symbol] on side W has 2 dots on top with 6 dots below - 5 grouped close together on the right and a single dot to their left.
> MFSL identifier: MFSL catalog number and side identifier in the format MFSL-9-999-X9. Etched except on "Abbey Road" sides W and X 'MFSL1-023 - A' and 'MFSL1-023 - B' are stamped.
> JVC identifier: Format is H 9 9 9 usually followed by symbols and/or a letter.
> Mastering: SR/2 ORTOFON with different permutations in the runouts.
>> Sides A, E to K, N to R, T, V, AB: 'SR' is on top of '2' separated by the inner groove with 'SR' closer to the label.
>> Sides H, O, P, R: 'ORTOFON' appears after 'SR'.
>> Side J: 'ORTOFON' is split with 'ORT O' after 'SR' and 'FON' after '2'.
>> Side T: 'ORTOFON' is split with 'ORTO' after 'SR' and 'FON' after '2'. Also '0724' was altered from '074'.
>> Side AB: stacked with 'SR' on top, '2' in the middle and 'ORTOFON' on the bottom. Each is separated by the inner groove.