Neil Aspinall said there was going to be some remastering, but usually that means an attempt to "clean up" the sound. "Remix" is what would be interesting. Pick up their 1999 re-release of Yellow Submarine with remixed songs. They sound GREAT. I wish they'd do that with all the Beatles albums because the stereo on the Beatles catalog is so separated. I can understand why George Harrison said that The Beatles in stereo sounded "very naked" because I think Martin & Co. were just in a hurry to slap together a stereo version for the albums and work on the more standard mono of the time.
I agree, remix the lot of them in proper stereo, i'm no purist so I don't think it really matters how they're mixed as long as they sound good. The Yellow Submarine album was amazing and i really liked the Let it be naked album too, so they've already done the two 'lesser' albums in their catalogue.
It's similar with the BB in a way, I'd much rather listen to the stereo remix of PS than the mono, so decent stereo on Revolver and Rubber Soul would be great.
Even though the Beatles albums are one of the most important back catalogues, they arguably have the crappest reissues - they are all nearly 20 years old, the sound is bad, the packaging is below substandard, no sleevenotes, no bonus tracks etc. The past masters stuff should have been included as bonus stuff on there at least.
In the way of the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Queen and Led Zeppelin, their CDs just recreate the original vinyl because they feel they are still 'current' and don't want to be seen in an historical context (Unlike the excellent CD resissues by the Beach Boys, The Who, The Waterboys, Elvis Costello etc), I mean of course they still are relevant, but they do themselves a disservice by not handling their back catalogues with more care, they might think that the music 'speaks for itself' so they wouldn't need sleevenotes and bonus tracks etc, but we are talking about albums which are getting on for forty years old and people sometimes need/want context and information, perhaps its just me.
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