AS far as I know there are 4 digital generations of some Zep tracks: 1) Original first-gen 80's albums - sound dreadful to me - flat and boring. Zep 4 is so underwhelming it hurts as is Physical Graffiti 2) The "remastered" (silver sticker on CD case) versions of original albums - better than first-gen, but... 3) The 2 "remasters" box sets 4/2 discs - all the album tracks in a funny order. This is far and away the best sounding release, until... 4) Mothership - another Jimmy Page remastering job - a good 5dB louder than remasters and with definite compression added but it's quite mild - no badly clipped peaks for example. The remastering has also altered the tonal balance somewhat and cleaned up a few tiny things. Sounds great. I'd like the rest of the tracks in this format.
I had the original vinyl pressings and the remasters 6-disc set - both were OK, although the remasters vinyl was way better than the originals to my ears. Let's face it, these aren't audiophile recordings. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB3 (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Outdoors: Boom ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62229 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
