About that new Dire Straits Box Set....

[Bob Boyer]

Here I was gonna go bragging and all about my new box set of all the Dire Straits studio LPs that was just released and given to me for Christmas by my lovely wife. You know, fully remastered, 200 gram vinyl, nice box for all 6 LPs, art you can read, the whole schnitz.

Then I cleaned the first album and dropped the stylus on it. Groove hash like the damn thing had been back-cued 500 times at a radio station. Once the music gets loud enough to cover that up, it's pretty fine stuff, so I can only imagine what it sounds like if it wasn't so noisy. You'd think that for $30/disc, they could get that right. At least Acoustic Sounds is being stand-up about the issue. I'll probably swap in hopes I get a better pressing but it seems a bit like Russian Roulette at this point.

Those Creedence Clearwater Revival remasters I got from Analogue Productions years back have spoiled me for remasters, I'll say that...

 

[Northwinds]

Here I was gonna go bragging and all about my new box set of all the Dire Straits studio LPs that was just released and given to me for Christmas by my lovely wife. You know, fully remastered, 200 gram vinyl, nice box for all 6 LPs, art you can read, the whole schnitz.

Then I cleaned the first album and dropped the stylus on it. Groove hash like the damn thing had been back-cued 500 times at a radio station. Once the music gets loud enough to cover that up, it's pretty fine stuff, so I can only imagine what it sounds like if it wasn't so noisy. You'd think that for $30/disc, they could get that right. At least Acoustic Sounds is being stand-up about the issue. I'll probably swap in hopes I get a better pressing but it seems a bit like Russian Roulette at this point.

Those Creedence Clearwater Revival remasters I got from Analogue Productions years back have spoiled me for remasters, I'll say that...

Quite honestly, this is why I do not buy reissues very often. I am pretty happy with the originals, in fact, the RL master of Brothers in Arms is tough to beat. I did recently get the Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come reissus lp to save wear on my original and was pretty happy with it

 

[Elite-ist]

Oh, boy, that would have bothered me to no end, Bob. When a box set of that importance (to Dire Straits fans) makes a debut I would hope vinyl quality would have been the last thing to worry about. I concede with Ron that a reissue is not something I would invest in replacing my original with. I didn't know about the Dire Straits LP box set being released. Now, I'm interested. Perhaps, a picture?

Nando.

 

[Rat44]

Shame the quality of vinyl is so hit and miss these days.
That looks like a killer set.
I got burned on some Back To Black releases and was lucky to get my money back.
Some of the remasters I am interested in are being released in SACD also .
Making me take a hard look at my next purchases.


Dennis

 

[Bob Boyer]

Shame the quality of vinyl is so hit and miss these days.
That looks like a killer set.
I got burned on some Back To Black releases and was lucky to get my money back.
Some of the remasters I am interested in are being released in SACD also .
Making me take a hard look at my next purchases.


Dennis

Yeah, it's one of the reasons I look to 24/96 and 24/192 downloads more these days. I can always record those over onto tape for a little more warmth, but in general, if they're starting from stuff I like, it started out analogue anyway...