In terms of which version of a CD to buy, a general (but not always applicable) rule for playing through good HiFi equipment is that an original CD from the 1980s or early 1990s is preferable to any remaster. The exception is classical music and some jazz where remasters of older recordings are usually better (in classical music and jazz when they remaster they do not add so much compression, as opposed to the ’brick-walling’ often done in contemporary music remasters) .
Most remastering makes things sound better on earbuds and in cars, but not on audiophile equipment. It might sound more impressive on an initial A/B comparison, but your ears will find it fatiguing after a while, and it won’t sound as 'musical'.
Most remastering makes things sound better on earbuds and in cars, but not on audiophile equipment. It might sound more impressive on an initial A/B comparison, but your ears will find it fatiguing after a while, and it won’t sound as 'musical'.