Fleetwood Mac Rumours reissue

Disco,

Your description would have been my guess. I have not heard it but generally new remasters are additionally compressed to give the "hot" sound that is common today.

At low levels this will give the brief impression of more "edge, attack and detail"....but when you turn it up to normal listening levels you discover it is just "squashed" music with excessive amounts of distortion.

Since this has been my experience recently with other remasters and it sounds like you have identified this on this new remaster ....I'll stay away.

Thanks for the tip!

Shadorne, and anyone else for that fact, please let us know if you have compared a reissue/remaster to the old verision and what you thought. I was ready to load up on the reissues/remasters until I tried Rumours.

I have TOTO Essentials CD and it is mildly overcompressed - it still sounds ok but the 80's Grammy winning sound ain't quite there after Joseph M. Palmaccio squashed it.

Doug Sax did a good job on Aerosmith's box CD set of their first three ( this was initially released on SACD ) and the CD sounds the same quality.

Another good remaster is Bob Ludwig's work on the Stones....still lots of distortion (or it would not be Stones) but an imporovement, IMHO.

I agree with the starter of this thread. The remaster is better than the original redbook by a long shot. And yes, it is out on vinyl but I have not heard it yet. Remasters are a hit and miss game. Not all good and not all bad. I would say its about 80% that the remaster will improve greatly over 1980's redbook CDs.

Is the vinyl cut from the digital master or the analog master.