millercarbon,
'A secret meeting was held on Jeckyl Island in which the titans of the music industry agreed to keep secret the details of how to make perfect digital. They all knew the key to long term profits was to slowly and gradually year by year go from absolute crap to slightly less absolute crap.'
If you look at all the various Pop/Rock remasters/reissues/box sets/ Hi-Res downloads etc it's all too to easy to draw the same conclusion that the decision not offer definitive digital remasters is a deliberate one.
Just look at how many times the back catalogues from the likes of The Beatles, the Kinks, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, The Smiths etc have all been reissued without anything yet like a definitive version.
Even today in far too many cases the original 1980s CD issues are still deemed the best. Definitive digital releases are few and far between, at least as far as popular music goes.
The two exceptions to my ears are the back catalogues of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. Those CDs already sound excellent and I'm not expecting any further improvements there.
'A secret meeting was held on Jeckyl Island in which the titans of the music industry agreed to keep secret the details of how to make perfect digital. They all knew the key to long term profits was to slowly and gradually year by year go from absolute crap to slightly less absolute crap.'
If you look at all the various Pop/Rock remasters/reissues/box sets/ Hi-Res downloads etc it's all too to easy to draw the same conclusion that the decision not offer definitive digital remasters is a deliberate one.
Just look at how many times the back catalogues from the likes of The Beatles, the Kinks, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, The Smiths etc have all been reissued without anything yet like a definitive version.
Even today in far too many cases the original 1980s CD issues are still deemed the best. Definitive digital releases are few and far between, at least as far as popular music goes.
The two exceptions to my ears are the back catalogues of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. Those CDs already sound excellent and I'm not expecting any further improvements there.