Mobile Fidelity VS Re-mastered


Ive been buying cds now for 20 years. As you all know there were some pretty muddy conversions done when moving the older music to the Cd format. That was one of the reasons, i beleive, that mobile fidelity existed. Now there are more and more re-mastered issues of those older releases. I have several mobile fidelities and re-mastered disks. No titles on both.
I'd like to hear how about peoples experience comparing mobile fidelity release to a re-mastered..in general.
What promted this is to get either a remastered of Bridge of Sighs or a MF. The spread in cost is huge...worth it????
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Old MFSL has not aged well. They played with the EQ a lot and in many cases worsened the quality of the music. I bought a copy of The Chieftain's "The Long Black Veil" when it came out. I have liked this CD a lot since I first heard it. When I saw the MFSL copy of the same CD for sale at CES I was tempted, but my experience with their CDs, and LPs in the past was less than stellar.

Last year I bought Aimee Mann's Lost in Space in spite of my expereince. It sounded good. So I decided to get the Chieftain's CD. It was very good too.

Based on all of these experiences, I would not buy MFSL unless it was done in the last two years. A remaster by someone else would sound as good if not better.