OFF: DCC remasters

[Carl E. Anderson]

On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 12:43 pm -0400 "Paul Mather" <paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU>
wrote:
> Yes, most definitely so.  IMHO, the DCC remaster is wholly better than
> EMI's (for one, they used an actual master tape, belonging to Ian
> Anderson), and the transfer is done with near religious zeal (keeping it
> analogue until the very last minute, so it doesn't end up like
> over-processed garbage).  The result is a detailed, expansive _Aqualung_
> CD that sounds worthy of vinyl!
> The DCC remaster is the real deal.  Accept no substitutes!

    Arse!  Is the DCC a US release?  I'll have to try picking it up
when I get back to the States ...

> (I have both CDs, sad to say.  Well, at least the EMI one has those
> bonus tracks, I suppose.:)

    Yeah, which sounded better remixed on the 20 Years set anyway ;)

--
Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/