Squonk wrote
But I am still not convinced on digitally remastered discs. The original were good with all the lack of technical equipment for those days. I compared some of the Stones albums that were remastered and there is something lacking from the original.
It depends on who is doing the remastering. I've heard some great ones that I prefer to the originals (Hendrix, Dylan Bootlegs, Led Zeppelin, etc.), but I've yet to hear a version of
Dark Side of The Moon that even approaches the sound of my German pressing (to be honest, I stopped looking years ago, so maybe there is one now).
In many cases the problem is the different sound of the newer digital formats and the improved fidelity that reveal different thing or even flaws in the recording. Many of the early CDs were not remastered for CD, but were simply the original masters (designed for vinyl) transferred to the new storage format (the record companies more interested in making money than keeping the quality again). This gave them a different sound and ended up giving digital audio a bad name.
Sometimes it's as simple as the experience RiaanC related with his Spandau Ballet disk (the less said about that, the better ?) - where the original vinyl he owned jumped at one point and the CD he bought recently sounded "wrong" to him because it did not have the jump. We tend to do the same thing to a lesser degree, where the version we hear and get to know first becomes fixed in our minds as "right" and any subsequent release - even a better quality, higher fidelity one - sounds "wrong" to our ears.
