I believe it’s mostly a marketing exercise. My experience agrees with the consensus here, they are either ’ruined’ or ’overly compressed.’
I can’t think of many remasters which improved upon the originals. Not for the Beatles (1993 Red and Blue and 2014 US Box excepted), the Kinks, the Incredible String Band, Elvis Costello or Scott Walker.
Different yes, more tracks yes sometimes, but better sound? No!
The frustrating thing is that even after cleaning up glitches and finding better original tapes they can’t resist the temptation to compress the dynamics. They just can’t.
Nor can they often resist trying a little too hard to remove tape hiss - and some of the ’air’ in the original recording along with it.
The Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin ones and the Johnny Marr Smiths ones were ok.
So were the Shout Factory ones for The Beat (or the English Beat as known in the US) and the Singer’s Singer Matt Monro Box.
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/remastered-cds-which-represent-biggest-improvement.247399/
I can’t think of many remasters which improved upon the originals. Not for the Beatles (1993 Red and Blue and 2014 US Box excepted), the Kinks, the Incredible String Band, Elvis Costello or Scott Walker.
Different yes, more tracks yes sometimes, but better sound? No!
The frustrating thing is that even after cleaning up glitches and finding better original tapes they can’t resist the temptation to compress the dynamics. They just can’t.
Nor can they often resist trying a little too hard to remove tape hiss - and some of the ’air’ in the original recording along with it.
The Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin ones and the Johnny Marr Smiths ones were ok.
So were the Shout Factory ones for The Beat (or the English Beat as known in the US) and the Singer’s Singer Matt Monro Box.
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/remastered-cds-which-represent-biggest-improvement.247399/