Hendrix 50th Anniversary Electric Ladyland Box Release


Looking forward to release tomorrow. In my humble opinion one of the greatest albums ever. Imagine hearing this album when it was released, Compositionally and technically from another time and place, truly ground breaking. Thanks Jimi!!!!!!!
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Here are a couple of posts from the Steve Hoffman forums. I can’t vouch for their accuracy:

1. it appears the CD is a DR average of [8]
and the Blu-ray is DR average of [13].
The 5.1 is a surround mix, and that in of itself is reason enough for inclusion.
Why oh why could they not at least make a new CD matching the DR average of [12] as was the 1987 CD release ?

2. Just to be clear, the blu-ray stereo mix is squashed like the CD. Just the 5.1 is DR13.

And an alternate opinion:

3.  Just got done listening to the 24/96 Stereo version. Very impressed. From the start much more information. You can plainly hear all the little bits going on in the background. Tremendous clarity, yes it’s a bit loud but IMO nothing is sacrificed. I think Kramer did a great job transferring the original tapes.

Don't want to spoil anyone's fun, but on the Steve Hoffman forums and Amazon the early word is that the cd is pretty badly compressed.  The 24/96 blu-ray is not.  So if you can't play blu-ray you may want to hold off on this one.
Jimi was discovered in the US by Chas Chandler who was looking for an act to kick off his new career as a record producer.  Chas had Jimi sign a management contract with Michael Jeffery, the guy Chas always complained had screwed The Animals out of their money.  Jeffery did the same to Jimi and Jimi died amonst his "friends" in London less than 4 years later, disgusted with the music business and the people he was involved with.
I couldn't get to the ebay ad from your link so I can't say for sure, but probably not. Since it is part of the 50th Anniversary reissue it was probably made at the same plant as those available from Amazon or other sources. If it was a separate Japanese remastering it might sound different and cost a lot more.