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Fleetwood Mac Rumours reissue

I purchased the new?? Fleetwood Mac double CD Rumours with disc one being digitally remastered and disc two containing outtakes and modified versions of the same songs on the original album. My point is that the overall sound and fidelity of disc one is vastly improved over the original CD issued in 1990. Wow, a huge difference. Any Fleetwood Mac fans out there should pick this up. It's a classic !!
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Disco,

Your description would have been my guess. I have not heard it but generally new remasters are additionally compressed to give the "hot" sound that is common today.

At low levels this will give the brief impression of more "edge, attack and detail"....but when you turn it up to normal listening levels you discover it is just "squashed" music with excessive amounts of distortion.

Since this has been my experience recently with other remasters and it sounds like you have identified this on this new remaster ....I'll stay away.

Thanks for the tip!
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I have TOTO Essentials CD and it is mildly overcompressed - it still sounds ok but the 80's Grammy winning sound ain't quite there after Joseph M. Palmaccio squashed it.

Doug Sax did a good job on Aerosmith's box CD set of their first three ( this was initially released on SACD ) and the CD sounds the same quality.

Another good remaster is Bob Ludwig's work on the Stones....still lots of distortion (or it would not be Stones) but an imporovement, IMHO.
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