Taming edge from remastered CDs?

Agree with Audioengr. Rarely have I purchased a remastered CD that did not sound superior to a previous issue. When puchasing CD's I specifically look for ones that have some sort of notation about being remastered (although I admit that is in-and-of-itself no guarantee of good sound quality). Most of what I listen to is jazz where there is almost always better recording quality to begin with, and spacial cues within the music, that makes remastering worthwhile. Same with classical. With rock music, it is (generally) a different story, and come to think of it, the remasters that I can think of that sound more edgy and hard sounding are mostly in the rock music genre. Ghosthouse can you corroborate that most of your remasters are in the rock music genre?

Agree with Sabai, a good power conditioning solution makes ALL your CD's sound right. For me, it not only "took the edge off", but in fact made all digital playback sound like analog, and I mean finally and once and for all, not like the empty promises of so many CDP makers. Regards.

Percentage of CD's in my collection that were noticeably bright or edgy before a successful amount of power conditioning was applied: 30-40%.

After: Z-E-R-O!!!

Understand?? :)

Also have a digital, 10-band parametric EQ in my rig...an otherwise extremely valuable tool that, for this problem, did next to nothing.

Actually, the idea that digital edginess or harshness must therefore be the result of a digital problem is currently one of the biggest myths in all of audio. The recognition of the impact of successful power conditioning solutions on this problem is just not, so far, all that widespread, although it has begun to change.

Hi Nicitico - I listened to a remaster of John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" last night. No edginess there. It does seem to be associated more with Rock re-masters (e.g., ELP's first).

Ivan - what power conditioner do you use?