Dire Straits : what is your favorite pressing?

Brothers in arms is brick walled by the original Digital technology of that day (when it was recorded).

If they had made analog safeties at the time, they could probably sell you a premium copy by now, that would easily outshine any prior pressings.

Dire Straits first album is a little dark sounding no matter what pressing or mastering you end up with. It’s close to neutral but quite obviously a bit dark.

So one can use it to evaluate, but one should probably never tune a system to it or via it.

I must have 9 copies, as there is always a a time in each given well known album’s sales or use, that it ends up for sale used, and you see it often. At a buck a piece and near mint, generally, it was always a tough purchase to turn down. Locally, the first ’simply red’ album was the same, and sold well and thus many of those, as well as Fleetwood Mac Rumours. Must have 7 or 8 of each of those....