Have you seen the new R.E.M. reissues? WOW

I am going to try and look into this a bit to see if the redbook CD has indeed been remastered or not. My understanding is that it was remastered. I'll get back to the thread when I have more info.

Paradales Green has clearly not-it's the same as the original CD and it sounds really flat.
Compare the production of that to AFTP which sounds great.
It doesn't say anywhere on the disc that it is remastered only the DVD info.
Indeed one would wonder if they would bother remastering the newer ones-I mean even last years album has been released in this format.

Just to put the tin lid on it-the dolby stereo mix on the DVD (I don't have five channel)is terrible too...even worse than the CD.

What is the AFTP version? I am still looking into it. Thanks for the continued dialogue.

Sorry Paradales I mean Automatic For The People-listen to the difference on recording quality merely due to time...I suspect if Green was cleaned up it would sound miles better on CD.

You may be right. I called Warner today and they are going to get back to me with a definitive answer. Though the person I spoke to did not think the regular CD had been remastered. IF I hear back from them, I will let you know.

If they didn't remaster the older discs, I take back the enthusiasm I expressed at the beginning of this post; what a lost opportunity.