Beaubourg wrote:Is it a given that all the definitive editions sound better than the originals?
I have remasters for a few titles and wonder if I should replace ALL of my originals.
I don't know which ones you have already as remasters but for me, as regards the Virgin years, it's much better on the Definitive Editions, definitely, and I have them all.
I think it's especially obvious on Rubycon and Stratosfear.
After I heard how bad the CD's of those two sounded anyway, I think I stopped buying the old albums on CD. I preferred my LP's, even with some surface noise.
As for Encore well, I am not sure I owned the original CD... I had the LP, it was copied on a good tape, and I treasured it.
What do you reproach to the remaster ?
I am not sure 100% as for certain releases out of the Virgin years yet.
As I said somewhere else, I had the double CD of Zeit and the remaster sounds way better to me, it has got much less hiss, and a bit more depth. They didn't do any miracle yet....
I do know that when they remove some tape hiss, sometimes, we lose some other frequencies, that were on the original... Then, it is a matter of taste. I can't stand the noise of a tape hiss on a CD, by the way.
For instance, I know Sanctuary/Castle released several versions, I think some dated back to 96, some a bit later... the back looks slightly different but maybe it's the same remasters.