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Just a place for general discussion. A place to unload whats on your mind and talk about anything - personal, health, help needed, achievements, daily highs and daily lows, theories, predictions and what have you.
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The thing about streaming is you can't control which version you're listening to. Often remasters are too hot or otherwise poorly done (very occasionally the reverse), so with physical media you can control which version you have.
For example, Men At Work's "Business As Usual" got remastered after the original CD without it even being marked as such - it was years before I found this out - it has WAY too much reverb on it (Hofmann forum very useful for this kind of research). So I got the original and HOLY COW they fucking trashed it. It sounds so much better without all the reverb smearing everything.
The original "FZ Remasters" of Zappa stuff, several of them suffer from this as well, this page details which ones got fixed. I can verify that Bongo Fury (the "weird" part is the dynamics are so much better, it took some getting used to! It's SO much better!) and Sheik Yerbouti are both 100% essential to have the 2012 vs the earlier ones.
The other big one I'm aware of is the Stones, the "DSD" mastered ones are phenomenal, easily some of the best stuff I've ever heard on recording (like hear the top of an acoustic guitar vibrate and stuff like that). The more-recent remasters are WAY too hot by all reports.
My husband and I have discussed the remastered music subject. One thing we noticed with remastered older music they are using a recording of the artist when they are older. Many artists voice isn’t as good at the older age. There’s a Walton Jennings album that was recorded maybe in the 80s, his voice isn’t as good. It’s not remastered. We pay for family Spotify & I like it a lot. I make playlists to avoid the bad remaster copies. I refuse to listen to the radio & they decide what I listen to. The only downside I find with streaming is the when my power is out so is my wifi. We live in a very dead cellar area & nothing loads relying on cellular. That’s something I don’t understand why in this age of technology we have so many dead zones. Having the vinyl album turntable is a big plus. We have Audio-Technica brand turntable.
Oy, I didn't know they were actually reMIXing, putting in new vocal parts and stuff like that. That's insane! Yet more to watch out for....
Yes it is. If you have listened to the artist for decades you will figure it out quickly.