Good Quality Led Zepplin CD's do they even exist?

Chadaudio816 I am afraid to tell you are completely and utterly wrong about these Zep discs.
Last week I ordered the Jap import of Physical Graffiti,it arrived today.
The packaging is superb;an exact copy of the vinyl and a lyric sheet to boot.
However it states quite clearly in one of the few pieces of English on the data sheet that these discs are remastered by Jimmy Page and George Marino at Sterling Sound.
On listening these discs are IDENTICAL to the Grey Box Set version I have.No difference on volume or anything.

I misunderstood your original post with the Page/Marino reference which I took to be the American discs you were comparing with.
So therefore I'm back at my original point that I believe the American CD's you are comparing are pre-Page/Marino which would explain the difference.

These discs are no better than what has been available for nearly 15 years.

The floor is yours.

Ben, or somebody. Is the box set of 4 discs that came out in the early 90's (basically collects all their best songs from all their albums plus a few rarities) which has a picture of a zeppelin going over the crop circles on the box cover the same re-masters?

Ben,

In all honesty I do hear a big difference between the american remasters and the jap versions of the same cd. My american copy does state remastered by page and marino, and so does the jap mini lp. Let me give you a quick run down of my system.
CD Player-Arcam fmj 23t
Pre-Pass Labs x1
Amp-Pass Labs x350.5
Speakers- Energy Veritas 2.4i

When I play the american version and the jap back to back with the same volume. I do hear a big differnce. The sound is a lot clearer, back ground is so black I can hardly hear the tape hiss, drums have more snap and more in your face,plants voice seems to flout in the air, pages guitar is much shaper. The list goes on and on. Now I did have my douhts at first. The american rematers are a lot cheaper and besides I had all of them already. Why invest a lot more money for the jap versions. The sucker in me had to have a listen, and I was blown away. The sound differnce to my ears sounds like a componet upgrade. Now it could be my system or a differnce in hearing between you and I. But I'm so taken a back that I have begone to replace my pink floyd cd's with mini lp's as well. And it's the same story with the pinks as well. Happy listening!

Wildoats no,the box set I'm talking about (although I believe they are the same remastering)is the later one with the complete studio recordings-a 10 CD set.
There is a link above for it.

Chadaudio816-I really don't know what to say,I guess perhaps another opinion on it might help.
I have the mini-LP of WYWH by Floyd and my findings are the same as the Zep I have-different packaging but the same sonics.

Chadaudio816-I've just listened to Physical Graffiti again and to my ears these discs are identical.

Perhaps one explanation is that the Grey box-set and the Japanese discs are of better quality than the stand alone American discs.It's all I can really think of,it would be interesting if other Audiogoners have any of these discs and can make comparisons.

How about you mail me your address and I burn a selection of my box-set for you to compare with your Japanese copies?
Might help tie it up.

For the record my system is Ayre AX-7,Ayre CX-7 and Proac 2.5's.