The one hi-res purchase I've made so far has been equally disappointing: The Moody Blues' "Days of Future Past." I own it on LP and CD both, with the LP dating back to its initial release (yeah, I'm that old!). I vastly prefer the CD version, as I don't think the LP pressings in the US market were very good to begin with, and the CD remastering improved things noticeably. The 24/96 he-res remastering, however, has done nobody any favors. The strings sound unpleasantly waxy, voices ring annoyingly, and in total it sounds like they're trying to ramrod too much information through the system. So no, this is not a very encouraging beginning.