Disappointing Elton John CDs?

The first three or four on SACD are good. The others are mostly crap in my opinion. They may be purchased here for 6.99.
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Get the old CDs - they sound great. The UK DJM CDs are highly regarded, and you can find them in used CD shops. Original MCAs are also fine. I'm not a fan of modern remastered CDs.

The "Elton John" SACD is nice too, if you can play Super Audio CDs. It's not quite as good as the other Elton SACDs, like "Tumbleweed Connection" and "Honky Chateau", in my opinion, but still pretty fair.

Regards,

the original masters are pretty good. surprising the remasters aren't also, but a lot of newer remasters are remastered to be louder than original. some underpowered systems may have trouble getting the most out of them. also many just flat out do not care for loudness wars remasters due to often compressed dynamic range, so they can be more hit or miss in each individual case.

Can't help w/ a direct comparison between original (which were pretty good) & remasters - but I can vouch for how good the SACDs are. The prices are good when you find them and the 2-channel mix sounds very, very good (I have used it in the car and the 2-ch sound was a pleasant surprise there).