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Anyone heard the new Led Zep jJapanese CDs?

I have had a heck of time listening to Led Zeppelin on CD (the vinyl has always been fine). Bonham's cymbals split up in the mix, the guitar sounds pressed... nothing on CD, re-issue or no, has worked.
Yesterday I picked up the mini-LP style Japanese re-issue of LedZep II... and lo and behold!! The tunes sound great!! I've always felt the true benefit of an audiophile system is not the fine rendering of quality recordings (i.e. Steely Dan, etc..), but the ability to make sense of an aural onslaught (Charles Mingus is a great beneficiary of high-end audio...how great it would've been to hear him LIVE...). Anyway, 'just wondering if anyone's had the same response to the Led Zeppelin CDs?
jeff_s12a

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ben_campbell
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Jeff these CD's have not (to the best of my knowledge)been remastered,they've been repackaged.
These are the same remasters as Page did in '93 for the grey box-set,the one with what looks like a rollercoaster frame work on the box.
The earlier CD's by all accounts are awful.
It could well be you had the earlier CD's.
ben_campbell
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Jeff-have you checked the date of the mastering on your original CD-if it was pre'93 then it wasn't re-mastered by Jimmy Page.
I know you are saying remastered by Jimmy Page-are you sure it's not production?
Remember all the Zep albums are produced by Jimmy Page-this is the production of the original albums i.e what went on the vinyl from '67 to '78.
However it could well be something different has been done on these issues.
I'm interested because if these are indeed better then I will be buying them.
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