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Remasters-who does the best.

I'm 45 and listen to mostly older music. I'm pretty much just a CD listener anymore as vinyl requires too much realestate for me.(I have tens of thousands of CDs. Rhino was always a dependable company for remasters as far as I was concerned until they released the Black Box(very compressed Ozzy era Black Sabbath remasters). Now I would have to say Repertiore is the most consistant label for quality remasters. I was just wondering if what other folks consider the better labels for quality remasters.
biffrythm
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theo
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Mobile Fidelity is the first one that comes to mind for me.
metralla
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I have tens of thousands of CDs

Wow. With such a great collection I'm surprised you have an interest in remastered CDs. You probably have all the originals and, except for all DCC, many MFSL, most Audio Fidelity, I give the nod to the originals, particularly the WG and JPN discs.

Most are one step forward, two steps back.

Regards,
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mapman
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Putting older CDs on a music server with effective automatic loudness adjustment, like SqueezeServer, helps equalize the overall loudness across tracks and disks may go a long way towards making older duller sounding disks sound better in comparison to newer remasters.

In general, I find most newer remasters to be quite good. The lemons usually occur in the realm of remastered hits packages of older pop/rock/top 40 material where loudness adjustments are poorly or misapplied in the interest of pure volume.

The best example of this in my colelction is a CD collection of Huey Lewis and the News hits.

The loudness adjustment functionality on the Squeeze server does help alleviate this to some extent.
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