Not convinced it can sound better looking at that, knowing how bad the likes of With Teeth sounds compared to Pretty Hate Machine. Sure I still like the album, but it clearly has distortion and lacks range compared to Pretty Hate Machine, and its graphs look closer to this remaster. The original Pretty Hate Machine has very small amounts of clipping, and has good punch and dynamic range. I agree some of the songs could use a little more bass volume, and if you really don't like the style of the sound, some flesh could be added to the mid range too, and perhaps even the echo could be tamed a bit, but I don't see how small tweaks like these should equate to masses of clipping. What a way to ruin a classic album.
And no, without many more opinions I'm not going to buy it just to see; the album is far too expensive in the UK to end up with something that sounds worse than what I already own. I don't see how $8 equates to almost £15. That's close to three times the raw value, and more than double even with VAT (the said VAT of the double value, not single). Not sure who this Bicycle Music Company is that took the content over from TVT, but they need to sort their pricing out over here. Can't believe Trent would let them rip us off like this. In fact, I think I'll use other methods to obtain this album and actually see how bad it sounds for myself.
