Putting older CDs on a music server with effective automatic loudness adjustment, like SqueezeServer, helps equalize the overall loudness across tracks and disks may go a long way towards making older duller sounding disks sound better in comparison to newer remasters.
In general, I find most newer remasters to be quite good. The lemons usually occur in the realm of remastered hits packages of older pop/rock/top 40 material where loudness adjustments are poorly or misapplied in the interest of pure volume.
The best example of this in my colelction is a CD collection of Huey Lewis and the News hits.
The loudness adjustment functionality on the Squeeze server does help alleviate this to some extent.
In general, I find most newer remasters to be quite good. The lemons usually occur in the realm of remastered hits packages of older pop/rock/top 40 material where loudness adjustments are poorly or misapplied in the interest of pure volume.
The best example of this in my colelction is a CD collection of Huey Lewis and the News hits.
The loudness adjustment functionality on the Squeeze server does help alleviate this to some extent.