for many remastered is a marketing bait. that’s why. otherwise it’s literally nothing unless the original mastering is crap, but regardless, for some reason, the crappy original mastering is often more desirable than remastered and so on... og triangle issue of DSOM sounds better than any audiophile remastered versions including UHQR. |
That’s why I buy original analog from the 50s to the early 80s. Many times, once digitized, the tiny details that give music its nuance and soul are lost forever. Sat in on an Acoustic Sounds demo with Chad Kassem of original vs remastered vinyl. Apart from some cleaning up of the recording, the music lost its blackness and took on a grey hash and fine detail was smoothed over. They all thought this was great. I wasn’t convinced. |
You are right Voodoo....I bought the Ebbetts MFSL to CD box set and I bought 3 of the new Giles Martin remasters. I compared the same 3 CDs of each version over a period of time and conclude that the "redbox" (I guess that term means regular everyday CDs?) is overall just as good as....if not better. (and I lean towards better heavily) Ebbetts is going back on ebay tomorrow night. MFSL Floyd....I agree with E_S.....not impressed with it either. Think they were made to sound good on the radio of a basic factory car stereo.
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Remasters were initially done to improve the early digital transfers to CDs. In the 1990s when digital technology improved there was often an improvement to the CD. Loudness Wars ruined the intended sound of recordings, the only concern was to pump up the sound for playback in cars and iPods using earbuds. |
I have lots of examples of music mastered for boom boxes, and I so wish we had the ability to reach back in time and shake those mastering engineers a little bit. :D A remaster at least gives us the chance that more modern equipment was envisioned by the mastering engineer. Honestly it can go either way, but would rather have options though I find most re-masters just boring and not significantly better. The MoFI remaster of Pink Floyd DSotM though, awful. Eliminated a bunch of effects in the original |
