Flashpoint wrote:bigmoog wrote:There has been some utter nonsense written about the esoteric releases, mainly the provenance of the material...the quality of the 'remastering' etc. but as far as im concerned the Zeit box set is a lovely artifact
"utter nonsense" remark is not very friendly. Not friendly at all.
I have not liked any of the Esoteric releases as the sound has not as good CD's I already had. Overall they are dull, lifeless and involving probably do to the uses of Noise Reduction, which any decent mastering person stopped using after that awful process went out of styles in the late 90's. I know I am not alone in this sentiment. Of course you entitled to you own opinion but
your "utter nonsense" remark has no place on this forum.
P.S. The esoteric liner notes are great but I am not too poor to continue to buy their product just for them.
i withdraw the remark, i will explain though
at no stage did esoteric mention the 'remastering' was from the original master tapes, ie the 1/4 inch tapes used to cut the mother for the vinyl stamper. it was obvious that esoteric were going to use whatever source that they had to hand : a cd or existing record vinyl. my comment was my opinion that some people were expecting a true remaster and their complaints i felt misguided.
as far as i know, ALL the original tapes are in the hands of virgin records, chris franke and other parties/companies....that is if they still exist in usable form or exist at all.
perhaps esoteric should have defined 'remaster'
I apologise for my remarks and that is that.
...The wise.....are silent.....