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I haven't listened to the new sets but, for what is worth, the old ones have much higher dynamic range. Thanks for the comparison comments guys. I am probably going to get these - if only for the bonus tracks (I already own the Linn CDs). Shame about 'Hats' being distorted. I am currently part way through a mammoth ripping project of all my CDs to Hard Drive for my Squeezebox Touch.

The original 'Hats' CD has pre-emphasis and I was not looking forward to trying to use the various complicated procedures necessary to rip the CD to FLAC (I don't use ITunes). I thought if the new 'Hats' was a good one I would rip that instead. Thanks for the comparison comments guys. I am probably going to get these - if only for the bonus tracks (I already own the Linn CDs).

Shame about 'Hats' being distorted. I am currently part way through a mammoth ripping project of all my CDs to Hard Drive for my Squeezebox Touch. The original 'Hats' CD has pre-emphasis and I was not looking forward to trying to use the various complicated procedures necessary to rip the CD to FLAC (I don't use ITunes). I thought if the new 'Hats' was a good one I would rip that instead.

Click to expand.My copies arrived today and I just gave them a fairly thorough listen. I haven't checked but I'm pretty sure they're clipped. What's more of a concern is that there is very AUDIBLE distortion on all tracks - less of a problem on the livelier ones but it does get very annoying on the quieter ones - 'Let's Go Out Tonight' (unlistenable from 2:15 onwards), '7 AM' (4:00 onwards) and 'From A Late Night Train' (2:49 and 3:29 being the most obvious ones). Surely this could have been avoided if someone hadn't tampered with the volume controls quite as much - which is especially frustrating since they got it right with 'A Walk Across The Rooftops'.

Otherwise both remasters offer superior tonality and detail. My copies arrived today and I just gave them a fairly thorough listen. I haven't checked but I'm pretty sure they're clipped. What's more of a concern is that there is very AUDIBLE distortion on all tracks - less of a problem on the livelier ones but it does get very annoying on the quieter ones - 'Let's Go Out Tonight' (unlistenable from 2:15 onwards), '7 AM' (4:00 onwards) and 'From A Late Night Train' (2:49 and 3:29 being the most obvious ones). Surely this could have been avoided if someone hadn't tampered with the volume controls quite as much - which is especially frustrating since they got it right with 'A Walk Across The Rooftops'.

Otherwise both remasters offer superior tonality and detail. My copies arrived today and I just gave them a fairly thorough listen. I haven't checked but I'm pretty sure they're clipped. What's more of a concern is that there is very AUDIBLE distortion on all tracks - less of a problem on the livelier ones but it does get very annoying on the quieter ones - 'Let's Go Out Tonight' (unlistenable from 2:15 onwards), '7 AM' (4:00 onwards) and 'From A Late Night Train' (2:49 and 3:29 being the most obvious ones). Surely this could have been avoided if someone hadn't tampered with the volume controls quite as much - which is especially frustrating since they got it right with 'A Walk Across The Rooftops'.

Otherwise both remasters offer superior tonality and detail. Having finally decided to not buy these deluxe versions thanks to this thread - I got down to ripping my original CDs for my Squeezebox Touch today.

Boy was it hard work! I started with the main albums. I ended up using a Command Prompt program called Sox to cope with the Pre-Emphasis on 'Hats'.

Good job I remembered some of my Dos stuff stuff from the 80s! Then I moved onto 'High' and found that it had some form of Copy Protection. As soon as I put the disc in the drive it just spun around with no access to the files. I tried the old hold Shift Key down while putting the disk in the drive trick but that didn't work. In the end I resorted to downloading the Flac's from elsewhere (naughty I know but I figured I had bought the CD anyway). According to some stuff I found on the Net 'High' was released with Copy Protection by mistake - it was only supposed to be the Promo version that was Copy Protected. However, it was worth all the effort as I now have all the original Albums, all UK CD singles and a separate folder for all the rare tracks (including all the ones that should have been on these Deluxe Sets!).

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