Anyone heard the Toshiba EMI Pink Floyds


My new flyer from Music Direct claims these new Japanese masterings are "the best digital versions we've ever heard." Has anyone heard these? There are 11 of them!

Thanks, Charlie
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Guys
They are already available mail order,not too expensive here in the UK.
However are we sure they've been remastered?
They come in the little miniture LP sleeves like the Doors re-issues,but in the ad I've seen they do not mention remastering,nor have I read it anywhere else until you mentioned it Charlie.
Charlie,does your flyer mention who and where, on the remastering?
It is possible EMI have updated their versions but read on.....
Last year I bought Wish You Were Here-first time available in the small LP packaging (25th anniversary of that album,complete with shrink wrap,post card)however the CD is infact the version from 1992!
It should be noted this is labelled EMI 2000, this version.
For anybody not sure, the Floyd albums were remastered intially in 1992(EMI) but then in 1997 the albums were remastered again under the supervision of the band and labelled anniversary editions--these '97(Columbia) versions are noticably better than their '92(EMI) counterparts.
There is also the complication of the MF gold discs where their version of Wish You Were Here is arguably still the best,their versions of Meddle and DSOTM are so quietly mastered I would need a sound meter to accurately decide which version is best!
Hope this helps.
Ben
Kelly,Charlie et al,
This is getting confusing but probably only to me.
First up the EMI releases were first,remastered in 1992-94 as you state Kelly by Doug Sax.
In 1997 Columbia (not EMI)released 30th Anniversary editions of some Floyd albums-DSOM was not included for some reason but these included the statement "Digitally remastered under the bands supervision"-however on my copy of WYWH it says remastered by Doug Sax(doesn't give a date!).
Were these stickers misleading and actually only the packaging changed?
What complicates it for me is that both '97 versions of The Wall and WYWH sounded better to me than the '92 versions that I already had....you could for instance detect the ambient sounds at the start of both albums sooner than on the '92 versions....I guess they could just have mastered the '97 versions that bit louder.
I no longer have the 92 versions but I believed my ears at the time.
I'm off to a Floyd newsgroup to see if they can shed some light on this........
Any ideas here on Audiogon,are we just getting the same remasters constantly repackaged?
Ben