Is somebody making you buy them? If not, don't then.
Answer me this...
With the spate of new reissues continuing and with most of the larger reissue labels ’claiming’ that their reissue sounds superior to the original, or at least as good, I fail to understand this...
If the original master tape of the recording isn’t that great to begin with, how great...from a SQ perspective can any future issue of this music sound???
So, let’s take for an example, the reissues of BOTW by Simon and Garfunkel. The original MFSL reissue, then the MFSL ’One Step’ reissue come to mind here. The original master tape of the BOTW session is known for poor SQ. Are we to expect that the reissue(s) are completely different sounding, and that a silk purse has been made from this sow’s ear??
So, answer me this...why are we buying expensive reissues that are sourced either from digital tapes ( with all of the problems that digital recordings elicit) or, from sub par mastering in the first place..??? Anybody else believe that knowledge of the original master tape source and its SQ is paramount before jumping onto the ’pricey reissue wagon’!
If the original master tape of the recording isn’t that great to begin with, how great...from a SQ perspective can any future issue of this music sound???
So, let’s take for an example, the reissues of BOTW by Simon and Garfunkel. The original MFSL reissue, then the MFSL ’One Step’ reissue come to mind here. The original master tape of the BOTW session is known for poor SQ. Are we to expect that the reissue(s) are completely different sounding, and that a silk purse has been made from this sow’s ear??
So, answer me this...why are we buying expensive reissues that are sourced either from digital tapes ( with all of the problems that digital recordings elicit) or, from sub par mastering in the first place..??? Anybody else believe that knowledge of the original master tape source and its SQ is paramount before jumping onto the ’pricey reissue wagon’!
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