All Things Must Pass 50th Anniversary sets due to be announced tomorrow

Just checked out the official description that include this nugget:  "The new mix transforms the album by sonically upgrading it – making it sound brighter, fuller and better than ever before".

Since when is "brighter" a good thing when it comes to CDs?  Maybe this is designed to compensate for Boomer generation hearing losses but I'm 65 and the two versions of ATMP that I've bought and promptly gotten rid of were both plenty bright.  I don't view this as an encouraging sign. 

Phil Spector made an awful mess of that album. . . call me cynical but I'd be surprised if much could be done to significantly improve it. . . 

I can stand to listen to the MoFi Gold disc of Layla and my Japanese SHM of Exile On Main Street (with the treble rounded off using Schiit Loki), to mention a couple other classics with poor SQ but I haven't found a version of ATMP that's listenable. 

It would be great if I'm proven wrong, but I'll be shocked if that's the case.  

From the Rolling Stone article: 

 “You want to be respectful of the original,” says Hicks. “Dhani and I hate the expression ‘de-Spectorizing.’ That’s not the point of this project.”

Too bad-- that's exactly what I believe it needs! 

The article goes on: 

"In addition to celebrating the album’s 50th anniversary, Dhani Harrison says one of the goals of tweaking the mix is to make the album more sonically friendly to a new generation. “We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel,” he says. “But these mixes have to be able to stand up alongside contemporary music and with headphones. The original mixes sound flimsy on a playlist. These mixes will give this album so much more longevity with a younger generation.

Seems to me what the the "new generation" cares about most is convenience-- they're happy with Mp3's. Dhani's aim to render ATMP "more sonically friendly" for folks who don't care about SQ to begin with doesn't strike me as a recipe for satisfiying the ears of audiophiles!

Well, we'll see. . . 

On my cheap HK computer speakers, this sounds less muddy than versions I've heard so far: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWV4pFV5nX4

@tomcy6:

Some "added sonic clarity" would be most welcome ! ! !