All Things Must Pass 50th Anniversary sets due to be announced tomorrow

@jafant My freak out that my COAX driver on my Thiel CS3.7 was damaged after listening to ATMP the last 2 days may have been too quick to judgement. Yesterday, after I listened to the song HEAR ME LORD on disk 2 of the 50th anniversary release on TIDAL MQA 192khz. I was getting distortion only on this song at the 39 second mark when George starts humming. The rest of the disk sounded fine.

I played this track about 10 times last night and it happened every since time. Though it was not that much of an issue on my KEF LS50 or RAAL SR1a headphones. There was something there but not as ugly as on the Thiel CS3.7.

Well today I am playing this fabulous disk again (stream) on my Thiel CS3.7 and HEAR ME LORD has no problems.

So my take away is that to not use streaming to evaluate the health of my speakers.

yyzsantabarbara

I have the 5-CD set ordered. Yes, I concur, streaming has a digital glare to my ears. Good to read that Tidal was the culprit. 

Happy Listening!

@jafant, I’ve got the 5CD set but I’m not at home to listen to it .

I listened to the remixed album through a sound bar with sub streamed from Amazon Music and I liked it. The vocals and some of the instruments were pulled out of the wall of sound and spotlighted a little.

If you go to the Steve Hoffman Music threads that I linked in my OP, the dynamic range (DR) has been checked and all the stereo digital versions have been compressed, but it doesn’t sound ’in your face’ like the Stones’ Blue and Lonesome, for example. Some of the reverb has been removed and it sounds clearer.  The bass has been boosted and sounds boomy on some tracks (maybe all?).  That bothers some people and probably has some effect on the lower DR numbers.

Of course there are people who as soon as they saw the DR numbers said they wouldn’t buy it. Kind of like georgehifi here. The reaction over there has been largely positive. People really like the demos and outtakes too. So from what I’ve heard and read it’s a successful remix. YMMV, of course.

It sounds better to me!

ozzy

I've heard the remix and find there to be a heavy emphasis on bass with the vocals sounding very dry. To me, it appears that Dhani has attempted to "modernize" the sound instead of tastefully improving it. I'll stick with the 2014 remaster as my "go to" version, while keeping the 2001 remaster as an interesting artifact of how George tried to effect what he thought was better sound to his work.