What's exciting is, that even BSM and ESM are getting a remastered release! These weren't included in the digital only releases.


Am 30.05.2014 10:19, schrieb Chris seeker42@gmail.com [powderworks]:

On 30 May 2014 18:15, dingus_mcgee@yahoo.com <mailto:dingus_mcgee@yahoo.com> [powderworks] <powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au <mailto:powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au>> wrote:

    if you mean the remasters that Jim did and were initially
    available only on iTunes, then yes they are worth it. across the
    board, to my ear the remasters are improved in sound quality.  at
    first i quibbled a bit with his choice on Progress, but i suppose
    he's entitled if anyone is, and i do like his version better than
    the original release anyways. D&D is probably closest to the
    original, but in the US we got Gunbarrel Highway, and the rest of
    the remaster sounds like its a better recording as well.

D&D is both the most similar and the one which contains the largest changes - in particular, Sometimes is more of a remix than a remaster.
IMO it's not worth it, the original sounded fine.

I agree the others are better across the board. Unfortunately some rather modern aggressive dynamic range compression has crept in during mastering, but there's more to sound quality than DR.

Interesting that they're getting a CD release now - I wasn't expecting that until the boxset.

- Chris