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For those of you who have too much money Groove has got a bunch of new TD Japan imports (mini-LP cover) available at £ 30.99 each :shock: Not for me (at least for the moment) I'm afraid :(
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If they offered Japan pressings on 180g HQ vinyl, transferred from the original master tapes, that'd be interesting at that price, but the same CDs in just nice packaging, no ....
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Michael66 wrote:If they offered Japan pressings on 180g HQ vinyl, transferred from the original master tapes, that'd be interesting at that price, but the same CDs in just nice packaging, no ....
Oh yes :!: - that would be a completely different matter :)
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bergen-dreamer wrote:
Michael66 wrote:If they offered Japan pressings on 180g HQ vinyl, transferred from the original master tapes, that'd be interesting at that price, but the same CDs in just nice packaging, no ....
Oh yes :!: - that would be a completely different matter :)
But what should I do with vinyl. I even don' t have a player anymore. But remastered cd's with extra's should of course be bought. Don't understand why this hasn't been done yet. Probably the rights?
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hansx wrote:
bergen-dreamer wrote:
Michael66 wrote:If they offered Japan pressings on 180g HQ vinyl, transferred from the original master tapes, that'd be interesting at that price, but the same CDs in just nice packaging, no ....
Oh yes :!: - that would be a completely different matter :)
But what should I do with vinyl. I even don' t have a player anymore. But remastered cd's with extra's should of course be bought. Don't understand why this hasn't been done yet. Probably the rights?
anybody got Chris Franke's home number? ;)
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hansx wrote:But what should I do with vinyl. I even don' t have a player anymore. But remastered cd's with extra's should of course be bought. Don't understand why this hasn't been done yet. Probably the rights?
So far I haven't encountered a remastered CD that actually sounded better, and not only louder than the non-remastered CD. I'm pretty much disillusioned about the whole "remaster" marketing scheme. Not talking about TD specifically, but also not excluding them. Read on here, here or here if you're interested in what is being done to music in CD mastering/remastering nowadays.

Regarding vinyl and TD, for example so far I haven't encountered a version of Alpha Centauri on CD that sounds as good as the original OHR or Virgin LPs. If there is one, or if there could be one, I'd be happy to buy it.
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everyone does it (Namlook fans are having a moan about it), however (and I'm a class of one here) to just worry about sound quality over content is a big big mistake...it's a first world problem, 4/5ths of the rest of the world just react to music directly and emotionally...sound quality is a luxury. It's an abstract concept that in a small way holds us back. It's like the old story of the Hi-Fi buff who just listens to the soundquality of his Hi-Fi and stops hearing music.

Having said that...remasters are mainly a waste of time...I know I bought them! :)

Vinyl is a flawed system as well, sorry I took my rose tinted glasses off!
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24db wrote:Vinyl is a flawed system as well, sorry I took my rose tinted glasses off!
Sure it's flawed, vinyl crackles and has surface noises - but ohh the richness of sound of a well-manufactured and mastered vinyl record! :-)
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Michael66 wrote:
24db wrote:Vinyl is a flawed system as well, sorry I took my rose tinted glasses off!
Sure it's flawed, vinyl crackles and has surface noises - but ohh the richness of sound of a well-manufactured and mastered vinyl record! :-)
and yet you get some good as well as bad vinyl remastering, but we like to overlook it and just enjoy the music ;)
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bergen-dreamer wrote:For those of you who have too much money Groove has got a bunch of new TD Japan imports (mini-LP cover) available at £ 30.99 each :shock: Not for me (at least for the moment) I'm afraid :(
All groove's stuff is massively overpriced anyway (well, to be fair to them...it sometimes is), so perhaps they're doing us a favour by putting us off it ;)
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