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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
The Led Zeppelin Remasters set sounds awful, everything is clipped and muffled. I've never heard a decent quality Zeppelin CD.
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I havent heard the Remasters set, so far as I know. What I have is the box set that was released in 1990, though I got mine a few years later. These compare favorably to the original vinyl records. In some cases, there is vast improvement. Specifically, anything from Led Zeppelin II, which was dreadfully recorded in the first place (the entire album was recorded while they were on tour, using any equipment that was available...also it was rushed into pressing so that very little post-production was done).
There is something that I think many of us have been overlooking in this discussion and that is the role of the playback equipment. Just as records always sounded better when played on good quality equpiment, so do cds. And most people balk at the price of a really good cd player and speakers. I have to wonder how much this plays into the formation of all these opinions we are expressing.