Years ago, my wife bought the Beatles Box Set.... everything they had released in one convenient box. It had been completely remastered so I figured it would be excellent. I popped the CD's in and listened and it sounded good. Then, since at the time I was doing a lot of traveling with my business, I loaded the entire box set onto my MP3 player to carry alone and listen on the long drives. I was appalled to discover that they had hard panned ALL the vocals to one side and ALL of the instruments to the opposite side. Not something that was pleasant to listen to with cans and buds. Unfortunately, my MP3 player didn't have the option to do mono. I ended up having to run it through the stereo system in my truck which was less than optimal due to the noise of the truck and the road. Seriously disappointing.

Who makes such a decision or a mistake which a band as big as the Beatles were/are, that they would put out the ultimate box set, remastered, and panned like that?

Note: I heard that it was an apprentice in the studio, who was instructed to ship the final copies to the distributor. No one checked that the mix was "correct" and before it was caught, it had been printed to disc and packaged. Ship it! Whether that is true or not..... IDK. I can't be the only person who listened and said WTF?

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