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New Springsteen Box: Opinions?

Got my Music Matters holiday catalogue and saw this 1973-1984 box set which is supposed to have been remastered from the original tapes by Bernie Grundman. I've always been a big fan but thought Bruce was not well served by his recording team. Of the original LPs the only ones that sound halfway decent are "Wild Innocent…" and "Darkness". "Born to Run" is a particularly lousy recording. Any chance a silk purse can be made out of a sows ear with these? Has anyone got the new box and compared with the original LPs?
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Getting through these slowly....Listened to "Wild, Innocent" last night. Very impressed. These are a big improvement over my original pressings. So far so good!
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Got to "Darkness" the other day. Not as big a difference (improvement) between this and the British pressing I had but certainly better. I am finding these reissues very enjoyable.
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Anyone have the 1978 Agora remastered cds? How is the sound quality?
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Listened to "BTR" the other day. While I have always felt this recording to be one of his worst, the new reissues bring it up to "decent" level. Songs with dense mixes like the title track, "Shes the One" and "Jungleland" still sound pretty mucked up but "Thunder Road', "10th Ave" and "Meeting" are much improved over the standard issue LP I've had for years. Next up, "The River".
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Agora sounds much better than any tape or bootleg version and is sometimes redbook quality, sometimes not. All in all easily worth the price. Incidentally, there is a clear very visible defect in my cd 2 substrate (looks like a mini oil slick under the surface) that causes the cd to skip on a few tracks. Currently trying to contact the seller for a replacement. Hopefully a one off problem which will be corrected.
I have also ordered the Tower theater cd which has not yet arrived.
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