Why do I keep torturing myself with remasters?

In the digital world there is no escaping the heavy hand of the modern remastering engineer. Not only do we have to endure the humiliation of classic albums being aggressively compressed but even new CD releases are getting the strangulation technique. The last few releases by the Stones, Dylan, Zeppelin? Compressed, compressed, compressed. As if that isn't enough now a lot of SACDs, Blu Ray, even the SHM Japanese remasters are showing up dead on arrival. Even Hi Res downloads. OMG!

zepplins have straight up sucked .if i play them thru the bose wave in the kitchen there ok :)

I've found Zepplin to be pretty good, as well as, dire straits, Bob Marley, pink floyd, yes, Paul McCartney  and grateful dead.

Do you not find the Japanese pressings a little bright? The JVC Jazz records are good but, the Odeon red vinyl Beatles stuff is a little tizzy for my licking. I still listen to them but, prefer the original UK pressings for the lads. (the mono box is great too).

ehtoo- That has been my experience re the EQ of Japanese pressings of rock music generally, but sometimes it is either not the case, or the EQ works in combination with the nature of the recording so the end result is not bad, e.g. LZ1 japanese pressing I mentioned. Pretty much every copy is murky, many have no bass, the Piros cut pressed at Monarch is probably one of the best I’ve heard, but that Japanese cut is really strong too. For the odd ball prog stuff, the King records and Seven Seas imprint have been good as well, but in almost all cases, the original pressings are so expensive, I have not compared them. (e.g.. Museo Rosenbach -Zarathustra).