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Blueranger
In one word: NO!
There are always some official version of those original albums, which sounds better.
In my opinion, Mickboy's "remasters" are a self-hyped thing. He centaintly makes no excuse to praise himself in how he has 'improved' the sound, which he claims sounds better than anything else.
Mickboy uses compression, noise reduction and eq-tweaking like no other. Something an official company would be bad-mouthed badly for, if they did that.
I can't understand why some people really prefer these to official sources.
With ABKCO's HD or SACD's, it doesn't get any better. Of the later releases, the 1994 VIRGIN cd's, sounds great.
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kowalski
ABKCO 2002 remasters have been denoised, compressed and limited as well (at least on the CD versions).
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scottkeef
I often wondered about that too. Remember when they used to sell 4 track reel to reel tapes of the releases? That crossed my mind... One of the few releases that has a clue is the "Taste So Good" SF remaster where according to his liner notes the original plan was to use "The Original Mobile Fidelity 1/2 speed Master" LP before settling on the Japanese Vinyl release as the source.