Remastered CD

Really looking forward to the remastered/5.1 mixed King Crimson albums.

you had CDs in the 70s?  wow, talk about ahead of the curve

I think it'll be quite interesting to hear any Fab 4 remasters if only to experience the music in a new way or to hear things previously buried.. the issue is not that they'll be better than the original versions, just different..I do hope George Martin was involved in some way, according to Rolling Stone it was done by Abbey Road engineers over four years with "new technology and vintage equipment to preserve authenticity and integrity"  ..they'll have original UK tracklists & art, expanded notes (painfully missed from the current CD issues) and some will be embedded with brief documentaries, and a mono boxset as well.

CryoftheCarrots wrote: Really looking forward to the remastered/5.1 mixed King Crimson albums.

Wow! Didn't know that one! Maybe the future of music. Make all album and cd on 5.1!

If I'm not happy with the edition I have (that is, if I assume the remaster will sound remarkably better), and if I happen to find the remaster for a good price, I will probably buy it. Obviously it also depends on how much I like the album and whether the remaster comes in a cool package or with interesting bonus tracks.

each remastered CD is another step closer to the original..

With so much new music around, plus music that I'm discovering all the time, there simply aren't the resources to be buying remastered CD's of stuff I already have.

Naturally, I'll buy the latest remaster of something I don't have, so I voted for that option

paulwalker71 wrote: With so much new music around, plus music that I'm discovering all the time, there simply aren't the resources to be buying remastered CD's of stuff I already have. Naturally, I'll buy the latest remaster of something I don't have, so I voted for that option

I'm with you Paul. It is challenging enough to keep up with the steady release of great new material. Re-masters are genrally a luxury although exceptions have been made for the likes of Genesis 1970-1975.

chopper wrote: I'm willing to buy remasters of favourite CDs. Recent ones such as Paranoid and Trick of the Tail have been worth the money.

Yes A Trick of the Tail has a rare performance of Genesis with Bill Bruford in 1976.

I'm buying CD's for about two years or more, so most of them are pretty recent remasters. I've never actually been comparing a remaster and to an older CD, so I don't really know the differences... but I assume the remasters are more polished and a more pleasant listen most times (though I have read some reviews where people weren't happy with the quality of the remastered album). I like the bonus tracks on some of my remasters, like on PH's In Camera and JT's Stormwatch, and the bonus track might actually be a reason for me to upgrade an older album to a remaster. The only remaster I'm really aiming for is ITCOTCK, which I don't have yet... In October this year (I believe) the remaster is coming with new material, in the form of a double CD or even a 4CD/DVDA box set! I'm kind of looking forward to hear what the bonus material is.

The term "Remastered" seems to have different means to some. Mastring is the process of preparing a recording, that has already been recorded, mixed,and edited, for final production. It can include but is not limited to the addition of compression and EQ'ing as well as a few other technologies to the each song as a whole. And while Remastering can help a recording's sound, I'd like to see some "Remixes" get done. And by Remix I mean back to the original multi track tapes, re-EQ the tracks, use current reverb technology, compress the drums for a little more balls in the recordings that sort of thing. Cost prohibitive I'm sure, but that would be really great to hear and I think it could breathe new life into many older recordings.