Dire Straits Remasters


Wow.

Picked up the Warner Remaster of Brothers in Arms to see the difference. Not only are things cleaned up, tightened up, and tuned up, but the whole disk, well, flowed better.

Just amazing.

I do not know much about mastering and would like to learn more. I've listened to several of the Riverside 20bit remasters on Jazz and have been unimpressed -- they are grainy and bright. And while the Riverside master is clearly in a different in genre, the SBM remaster is much better. Much, much, much better. So clearly there are different approaches in eeking out the last bit of fidelity in the flawed Redbook format and some appear more successful than others.

I suppose this rolls up into two questions:

1) Any SBM recordings you recommend (I'm replacing my Dire Straights collection with the SBM remasters)?

2) Could you direct me to resources (web or book) which explains the details of different mastering approaches?

Thanks in advance,
mprime

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I'm a little lost here, can someone tell me *how many* reissues are being discussed here and in what order is the *quality* ??
I went to All Music Guide and got a ton of Anti-Spyware popups on their site. (Yes I have a firewall, but I HATE these kind of sites where you have to "sign-in" and deal with ads, they're very strong pop-ups too, so when ever you change pages, you get hit big-time, P.I.T.A.)
Thanks Hifimaniac & Mprime for clarifying.
I assume it's safe to say, the JVC is THE one to get ?