Led Zep Reissue on vinyl

If the new Zeppelin CD releases sound better than Mothership I'll eat a bug. Scout's honor.

Moryoga: to your point, and as more grist for bitchin,' after all the controversy over the Beatles vinyl set released a couple years ago derived from a digital master, they are now being released as mono pressings, purportedly straight analog, no digital in the chain. http://www.thebeatles.com/news/beatles-get-back-mono

Maybe there is hope after all. I agree with Mike that tapes are supposed to be treated as the Crown Jewels.
My copy of LZIII Deluxe finally arrived today.

Mikelavigne has explained a major reason why analogue tapes are not used in the digital remastering or reissue process. Also, you would not want to risk damaging these tapes rewinding and fast-forwarding on the various tape machines during a remix/remaster session.

Many original tapes were stored in less than optimal conditions (improper temp, humidity, dirty rooms) and may have creases or oxide peeling from the tape. In that case, the studio will have to try and have them restored before archiving them to digital.

It's the same deal with original film and videotape storage. The Library of Congress has a large department devoted to the restoration and archiving of all formats to digital.

one must realize these tapes already lost HALF of information after over 40 years. analogue mastering is simply no-go or no way for successful release-remaster and so any of further re-issues. classic records reissue to me is very 'down south'. today's releases are solid C vs. original US or UK releases. Mo-Fi sucks all the way on all of releases and all albums of LZ or it's just i don't like the way mo-fi sounds on almost all of records they've made.

Whart,
Looking forward to your review of the LZ3 as you have the proper sense to use horn speakers ;)

I bought all three albums and I have to say I'm impressed. I and III are really good, II suffers the issues (described elsewhere) of side 1 being a little distorted and side 2 sounding wonderful.

I have heard cut one of the Classic Records II on my system and have to admit it sounded slightly better. For $22 however, these re-issues are a no brainer.