Dylan's Time Out of Mind remix is Stunning

In his 2001 book Bob Dylan: Behind The Shades Revisited, well known Dylan scholar and author Clinton Heylin had this to say about the sound of Time Out Of Mind:

"Lanois produced perhaps the most artificial-sounding album in Dylan’s canon." He described the album as sounding "like a Lanois CV."

Stephen Earl Thomaswine (how’s THAT for a name? ;-) writes:

"Lanois bathes them (Dylan’s vocals) in hazy, ominous sounds, which may suit the spirit of the lyrics, but are often in opposition to Dylan’s performances." Bingo!

Michael Gray writes:

"Some tracks have Dylan so buried in echo that there is no hope of hearing the detailing in his voice that was once so central and diamond like a part of his genius."

I don’t know what Lanois had in mind, but he clearly got carried away, taking it too far.

I consider the sound of Time Out of Mind to be the best part of the album.  
Amazing depth, ambiance, sense of airiness/distance/physical space (the instruments/voices themselves, and the physical space they occupy together, whether in their room or in the ‘soundstage’ of my speakers), while still retaining clarity where there needs to be clarity.  
Not easy, and an impressive achievement I still find sonically remarkable.

@bdp24 

"I don’t know what Lanois had in mind, but he clearly got carried away, taking it too far"

+1

@tylermunns 

"I consider the sound of Time Out of Mind to be the best part of the album".  
 

And I consider the best parts to be the compositions and the musicianship.

It would appear we approach music-listening from profoundly different perspectives!

@stuartk No, not at all. I like this album’s sound. I listen to all manner of music. Music audiophiles would turn away like a rotten fish because it doesn’t sound like Diana Krall, Brothers in Arms, Aja, or Dark Side of the Moon.  
My liking this particular LP’s sound bears an infinitesimal amount of similarity or lack thereof in how we both “approach music listening.”