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Decent sounding Pretenders album?

I've got two Pretenders "Greatest Hits" type CDs and IMO they both sound pretty bad.

A new CD has recently been released "Best of the Pretenders/Break Up the Concrete", a 2CD set which includes their 2008 release and a greatest hits compilation. This is listed as remastered. Has anyone purchased this or heard it?

Would appreciate opinions on sound quality. Thanks!
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metralla
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Early 80's digital is about as bad as digital gets
Would you prefer remastered versions with no dynamic range? Not this little brown duck.

For their eponymous album, the best sounding versions are the original Sire (target design) from either West Germany or Japan or the AF remaster.

The targets are hard to find, but not impossible and not too expensive in the used stores. Here is the WG one:

http://www.targetcd.com/pretenwg.html

AF released this recently as Audio Fidelity Gold AFZ 052, remastered by Steve Hoffman, and it sounds very good, although missing the phone noises on "The Phone Call" as these sound effects were reputedly not on the master tape.

Regards,
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