New Grateful Dead Box set...Opinions?


Just wondering if anyone has heard the new 5 LP box set. What is you opinion of the recordings and vinyl quality?
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Just listened to American Beauty.

Truly, I think the recording was SPECTACULAR. The instruments had placement and there were the subtleties in the recording that make me happy I spent all the money on my system.

Every instrument actually sounded like an instrument. The transition between Ripple and Brokedown Palace provided that magic feeling when the bottom drops out of music in the "trippiest" way. Backup vocals were purposeful and clean.

Even my wife thought it was special and significantly better than any Dead she had heard.

Jerry's voice was focused, clear, throaty, and sounded like candy. Bobby was mixed in well (not to0 overpowering), and Sugar Magnolia sounded "different....more like music than just a song! Even Phil sounded like he could sing :)

I guess you can tell that I thought it was pretty good :)

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