Rush Permanent Waves 40th Anniversary

Interestingly I streamed the 40th anniversary title last week and had the same impression - very digital and compressed sounding.  I expected something better and wondered how the vinyl would sound.

IMO, most of these New anniversary issues are more about marketing hype than quality. All the "previously unreleased" music that is on the on the extra albums was unreleased for a reason. It's not good. This is my experience with Jethro Tull Aqualung that was done about 10 yrs ago. Admittedly I don't own many because I won't pay the exorbitant price they are charging. This is not to say that all remasters are bad. But they are a toss up. As a Skynyrd fan, I'm glad the remastered theirs since most all the originals sound muffled and without any body. But most of their previous unreleased isn't good either. IMO, the only previous unreleased songs are on the Michael Jackson "Bad" album. But there are only 3 songs.

Interesting, I think it sounds great. Particularly the live stuff... I suppose, to each their own?

I gave my copy a spin, after reading this thread. 

A discog reference and matrix check indicates I have a SRM1-4001 1980 press, but with the several variants, my copy doesn't jive with those listed.

My copy is very good. Quiet and punchy. Not having a reissue to compare, based on my previous experiences I'm not missing anything.

I like the less talked about Caress of Steel more.

I will give mine another spin to see if maybe my mood affected my impressions of this.  It's possible I got a bad copy.  It doesn't sound terrible FWIW, just not as spectacular as it should IMO.