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Where do you stand on this ?
Hello Goodbye:
Hey Kevin, the best sound is my Country Gentleman plugged into the AC30! ;)
nimrod:
Maybe I didnt explain that very well but I wasnt really asking what people prefered but rather do you think its right that shops sell remasters as the default version
tkitna:
Are the originals even avaliable anymore? I would think that the stereo remasters would be the default CD at this point. Kind of silly for a company to remaster a catalog and offer both versions (not talking about mono here).
Hombre_de_ningun_lugar:
Well, it's logic for them have the remasters as the default CDs now. Why would they still produce the old versions? Happily I bought my beloved original versions several years before the remasters.
peterbell1:
I suppose even though the new remastered CDs are now the default product being sold by record shops, the old 1987 CDs, as well as vinyl, tape cassettes, 8-tracks, reel-to-reel tapes or whatever will always be available if a listener wants to go back and find out how things sounded BEFORE the remastering happened.
You could probably go on eBay and buy a copy of every Beatles album on vinyl (the cheaper 1970s reissues which still contain the same 60s mixes) AND a turntable to play it all on, for the same price as a new remastered box set.
It would be great if record companies did the remastering job and packaged the new versions alongside the old ones, so that both versions are still available. With some Beatles albums you could fit both versions of an album on a single CD, so it wouldn't even cost the record company any more to do it!!
But they don't like doing it - they like to shove the new product down your throat so you think you are getting something new and exciting for the large sums of money you are paying out.
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