HW: Castle CD's

[Tim Gadd]

At 01:26 PM 3/9/00 +0000, Jon Jarrett wrote:

>        Well, for six or so HW albums the Castle CDs are the only
>CDs; they all came out remstered and repackaged last year (L79,
>_Levitation_, _Xenon Codex_, _Space Bandits_, _Electric Tepee_ and
>IItBotFtBD). They were discussed briefly on here before the thread got
>confused with, and hijacked by the EMI remasters of the iorst six albums,
>and I still think that may have been why Castle did it, but as far as we
>could tell there was in fact no difference at all between original CDs and
>remasters, which is a pity since at least XC would be dramatically
>improved by a clean-up IMO. As far as your question goes, though, I have
>the Castle _Levitation_ and there's nothing wrong with it at all, lovely
>and clear. It was however a marvellously-produced album - I imagine _Live
>'79_ would be more difficult to CD-master. Hope this helps, yours,

Actually it doesn't quite clear up the question for me, because  there are a
lot of used HW CD's floating around on Castle from the 80's. Were these of
similar sound quality to the 1997 releases? When you say there was no
difference between them and the originals, do you mean between them and the
earlier Castle versions, or were those albums available on CD on other
labels prior to Castle? (you can tell how long I've been out of circulation.
The last HW CD I bought new was Palace Springs.)
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Tim Gadd
Hobart, Tasmania