iPhone wrote: > Yes and to my listening pleasure no. I didn't delete the original Red > Books until after listening to the interview where Ringo is discussing > the 24/96 Remasters and how the bass and drums are the way he wanted > them for the original recordings. So Yes the track lists are all the > same, and yes the remasters differ in actual output (but don't all > Remasters in one way or another, these 24/96 just more then others), so > as far as I am concerned the Red Books are a lesser copy of the original > Albums plus I found myself only listening to the 24/96 tracks before I > actually deleted the Red Books. > > Now if I had a ripped 180 virgin vinyl copy of the Albums, I would have > kept that and did as you did tagging it with "Vinyl" in the title. I > have so many CDs that there comes a point when a decision needs to be > made as to what to keep when it comes to basically just a cleaner copy > of the same CD such as Van Halen remasters of past CDs and other artists > like Stevie Ray Vaughan.
The last point there is an important one. I've had the same problem with CD's, LP's, even some BluRay releases, instances where there is a Mono and Stereo release. I've gotten to where I've had up to 5 copies of the same album, and the reality is that there is one maybe two that I actually listen to and the others become a one listen and done. I've resorted to eliminating both digitally and physically CD's or versions that I don't listen to. I love hi-fi and I can appreciate that people have their preferences on versions. I have mine, and once I figure that out, I try to get rid of the rest. I do generally keep vinyl, but I rarely find myself in a position where I think, "hmm... I want to listen to the 2000 remaster today instead of the 1992 one that I usually listen to" or whatever. In fact, I am even letting this stop me from buying remaster after remaster. Rhetorically, how many times do albums really need to be remastered? and how many times do we need an anniversary edition of an album? But, that's a digression, and of course real diehard fans don't mind, but I've gotten older, and I can only buy my favorite albums so many times. AND, I only have so much space (physically and even on a hard drive). Truth be told, I still check out remasters; I just don't buy them unless I know they are significantly better than previous ones, e.g. no clipping, etc. Thankfully the internet makes it easy to gage without having to buy in the first place. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108121 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list ripping@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
