I will of course be buying the boxed set, but I found some of the critiques on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Beatles-Stere...showViewpoints=0&filterBy=addOneStar

credible and believable, especially the comments on compression and the comparison to the remixed previous releases.

Are these critiques out to lunch or is there some truth to them?

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