saint
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Post by saint on Mar 28, 2010 7:11:41 GMT -5
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Post by vermeerf on Mar 28, 2010 7:54:27 GMT -5
I don't think it's a bad remaster, the album sounds great. So I can't agree with this person's opinion. Just go to a record store and ask if you can listen to the album. Then you can decide for yourself what to do.
As for the comments about As The Lights Go Down...of course it's over the top and cheesy but you have to watch these things while keeping in mind in which time they were made. In 1984 this was groundbreaking stuff, DD had to push the medium video further. Nowadays you wouldn't make this kind of film anymore but that's also what's great about it. Pure nostalgia.
The 17 minute version of New Moon On Monday is great!
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Post by Astronaut2005 Drummer on Mar 28, 2010 9:26:27 GMT -5
I don't think it's a bad remaster, the album sounds great. So I can't agree with this person's opinion. Just go to a record store and ask if you can listen to the album. Then you can decide for yourself what to do. As for the comments about As The Lights Go Down...of course it's over the top and cheesy but you have to watch these things while keeping in mind in which time they were made. In 1984 this was groundbreaking stuff, DD had to push the medium video further. Nowadays you wouldn't make this kind of film anymore but that's also what's great about it. Pure nostalgia. The 17 minute version of New Moon On Monday is great! The 17 minute version of New Moon On Monday you find on the Greatest DVD video compilation!!
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Post by stuporfly on Mar 28, 2010 10:17:49 GMT -5
17 minutes of a song I'm hoping will end three minutes in? Hooray!
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Post by Tin on Mar 28, 2010 11:29:27 GMT -5
Repackaged material......nothing new. But keep in mind there still are some people out there who didn't get to see this stuff the first or even the second time it came around. I've only seen bits and pieces of things and am looking forward to finally being able to sit down to my cheese-fest! ;D
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Post by vermeerf on Mar 28, 2010 11:47:38 GMT -5
I don't think it's a bad remaster, the album sounds great. So I can't agree with this person's opinion. Just go to a record store and ask if you can listen to the album. Then you can decide for yourself what to do. As for the comments about As The Lights Go Down...of course it's over the top and cheesy but you have to watch these things while keeping in mind in which time they were made. In 1984 this was groundbreaking stuff, DD had to push the medium video further. Nowadays you wouldn't make this kind of film anymore but that's also what's great about it. Pure nostalgia. The 17 minute version of New Moon On Monday is great! The 17 minute version of New Moon On Monday you find on the Greatest DVD video compilation!! I completely missed that ;D Thanks!
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bloodshift
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Post by bloodshift on Mar 28, 2010 20:24:31 GMT -5
I just put in my pre-order to amazon.ca for all three releases for C$61 and change; it says they'll be shipped April 13th.
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Post by dsquared on Mar 30, 2010 11:42:17 GMT -5
I can tell you that the S&RT remaster IS in fact very, very poor in terms of audio quality, and I can only assume that the others will be the same due to the fact that the same guy did the remastering. If you've heard the Spandau Ballet remasters you will know what the DD albums now sound like. The volume levels ARE pushed, but not to a complete brickwall. The main issue is that the high end spectrum has been increased so much that it sounds incredibly tinny and harsh. Take a Duran tune, turn the bass down and the treble nearly all the way up - and that is the sound you get.
I will make some samples of the original, 2003 remaster, and 2010 remaster for comparison sometime today so people can have a "side by side" comparison.
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Post by musicmaniac on Mar 30, 2010 12:22:41 GMT -5
I can tell you that the S&RT remaster IS in fact very, very poor in terms of audio quality, and I can only assume that the others will be the same due to the fact that the same guy did the remastering. If you've heard the Spandau Ballet remasters you will know what the DD albums now sound like. The volume levels ARE pushed, but not to a complete brickwall. The main issue is that the high end spectrum has been increased so much that it sounds incredibly tinny and harsh. Take a Duran tune, turn the bass down and the treble nearly all the way up - and that is the sound you get. I will make some samples of the original, 2003 remaster, and 2010 remaster for comparison sometime today so people can have a "side by side" comparison. I agree with you 100%. The comparison is simple...Original sounds great, 2003 remaster sounds like shite, and the 2010, even worse. I am not a fan of remastering, especially the Rio 2001, 2010 and any of the 21st century issues of SATRT. MFSL and Japanese vinyl is the way to go. If not, than any of the original cd issues before 2001.
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Post by derekduran on Mar 30, 2010 12:59:05 GMT -5
well as we're dealing with "facts" I can say that to these ears it sounds perfectly fine- been listening to it quite a bit today and am hearing stuff that I've not heard before on these tracks
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