New remastering of Steely Dan's Katy Lied review by Fremer

I own the UHQR version of Katy Lied (and all of the other SD releases as well*). IMO, I may be most shocked and impressed with KL. I can't believe what a clean, distortion-free recording it is. The quality of the recording made me want to keep turning it up. Obviously, I'm a huge Steely Dan fan and I love this record. For me, the $150 for the UHQR was well worth it. 
 

*Still waiting on the release of Royal Scam

[The recording of KL] responds very well to my tinkering around with bass and treble on my PEQ-1. I can make it sound excellent. Therefore it is not an inherently bad recording.

If we said that a certain brand of ground beef responded well to a lot of seasoning and bbq sauce, it would seem sensible to conclude that the meat must not be very good to require all that fussing. The analogy holds, in my view, for KL. 

Perhaps we can meat (!) in the middle and agree that KL is not a "bad" recording but it has a lot of room for improvement. If you're good at tinkering with the sound using your PEQ, then it would be interesting to see how good you could make the *new* version of KL. There seems to be a broad consensus that it's meat of a higher grade.

I’ve an original “digital masters series” version of the album that sounds very nice ( KL).  But for pure musical nirvana of SD, I love their final studio album “everything must go” especially the title track….very well done.  I also disagree with statements earlier about Fagans Nightfly album, I think it sounds amazing!

A little off point, but I became disenchanted with Micheal Fremer whom I had followed since the 70's after posting  comment on his YouTube channel. He was extremely rude in his response which shocked me a bit. Haven't followed him since. 

A more off point observation....I get annoyed when in his interviews, he is constantly cutting off his interviewees. I want to hear their thoughts, not your uncontrolled ability to constantly interject your "at the moment" thoughts.