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Peter Gabriel....Bad sounding CD's......groan.....

Hello all
I'm a big Peter Gabriel fan and own all his cd's. Aside from his latest release UP, all his cd's sound horrible. Thin, bright, digital, and lifeless. Does anyone know if DCC, MFSL, or any other company that specialized in remastering recordings worked on his stuff? I noticed some of his cd's in the music store now sport the 'digitally remasterd' logo. Are they that much better then the 'older' releases? Also I see he has just released a Greatest Hits cd, are those songs remastered and improved?. Please do not recommend analog records as that is not an option for me right now.
Thanks in advance guys

dudeaudio
dudeaudio
ptmconsulting
1,000 posts
 
Have you tried his original LP's. They're not much better. Especially "So". There's sibilence in the recording. Tried this on several different systems with the same result. Either bad mastering or bad pressings (and I've tried several). Good music though - just suitable for the walkman and not the main system.

Enjoy,
Bob
ellery911
549 posts
 
I had the originals...have a couple remastereds...and a couple SACD's...each step up was definitely an appreciable difference...enjoy.

Ellery
imin2u
392 posts
 
All Peter Gabriel titles were released in Germany (from the Nimbus plant) a year before being released in the U.S. Those German versions have been the best cd versions to this day. I find the remasters to have lost punch and emotion in order to eliminate hiss. (The same thing happenned to the Cat Stevens remasters). The sacd version's are better (I have them all) but for CD the German's are IT.
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marakanetz
5,473 posts
 
"Don't Give Up!"
nicko
25 posts
 
Check out the Hi-Fi+ issue from a couple months ago where Peetah was on the cover. There was a lot of info in it comparing the recording quality of the various formats.
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