The best 'Floyd on CD IMO are the Doug Sax remastered issues from the early nineties.
Maybe I'm missing a trick, but usually I run the proverbial mile from anything with the subtitle "Remastered" or "Digitally Remastered" - I don't want to hear an interpretation of the events so far removed from the energy & passion of the original even... discuss! The SACD DSOTM is godawful and muffled to me,
I've only listened to the SACD version a couple of times, and never A/B'd my vinyl or normal CD version... guess what I'll be doing sometime this weekend (hopefully!) only worth it for the surround re-mix if that floats yer boat...
It doesn't!
One disc I've been listen to is Ozric Tentacles' Dove Records release of "Erpland." The later mastering got the absolute phase inverted and it sounds thin-toned and sucked out by comparison.
Sorry Dave, I don't know this album...
Two other oldies - the first Tracy Chapman album
only got the cd - brilliant - played it Wednesday night, even better through the Caiman...(good on vinyl too if you can get an original pressing from the US metalwork) and the 1976 recording from Joan Armatrading - I have a dire UK LP pressing, a superb Nimbus remaster on LP and of course the CD as well - guess which LP release sounds like the CD?
I've got the CD, but no basis for comparison... played this one post-Beresford, too
Joe Cocker - Sheffield Steel (if you get the right LP cut)
Robert Plant - Now and Zen (LP cut as above)
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (needs a good system to truly shine - don't bother with Rumours, it's a cr@p recording unless it's been dealt with now)
Camel - Snow Goose remastered (all of Paschal Byrne's remastering is good IMO).
Voyage of the Acolyte (remastered) on CD - the LP and first CD issue sounded distorted and thin toned by comparison.
Rage Against The Machine CD - the one with a pic of the burning Monks on the back - incredibly angry performance and the recording lets the passion through.
Erikah Badu - Baduism - I once heard some huge Wilson Benesch speakers fart like crazy on the bass notes at the beginning of the first track. A great one for checking room acoustics and bass "tunefulness." Don't play on Linn Keilidh's or Linn's passive 5140's/Espeks
*hangs head in shame* don't own any of those you mention - except Rumours!
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