Led Zeppelin Complete Studio Recordings blowout sale
Jul 24, 2007 at 3:54 AM Post #3 of 20
From the descriptions, it seems they're the remasters. So, in other words, no.
 
Jul 24, 2007 at 8:49 AM Post #4 of 20
I'm pretty sure this set is still $69.99 at yourmusic.com with free shipping.
 
Jul 24, 2007 at 9:41 AM Post #5 of 20
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Originally Posted by stewgriff /img/forum/go_quote.gif
From the descriptions, it seems they're the remasters. So, in other words, no.


What's the difference between the originals and the remasters by the way? I've only ever heard the remasters.
 
Jul 24, 2007 at 3:21 PM Post #6 of 20
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I'm pretty sure this set is still $69.99 at yourmusic.com with free shipping.


With membership hassle and questionable BMG copies.
 
Jul 24, 2007 at 3:26 PM Post #7 of 20
No hassle at all, you can sign up buy it and then cancel. Questionable BMG copies? It is the exact same thing, with maybe the occasional "manufactured for BMG" decal instead of a UPC code. Everything else is absolutely identical.
 
Jul 24, 2007 at 3:29 PM Post #8 of 20
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Originally Posted by stewgriff /img/forum/go_quote.gif
From the descriptions, it seems they're the remasters. So, in other words, no.


Still some of the best music available, in my opinion. I have this set and I love it.
 
Jul 24, 2007 at 4:04 PM Post #9 of 20
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Still some of the best music available, in my opinion. I have this set and I love it.


One of the best in fact, that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
 
Jul 24, 2007 at 4:18 PM Post #10 of 20
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With membership hassle and questionable BMG copies.


Ok, go ahead and pay $15 more for the same thing.
 
Jul 24, 2007 at 5:25 PM Post #12 of 20
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Still some of the best music available, in my opinion. I have this set and I love it.


Never questioned the music. It's Zeppelin, how can you go wrong?

But the remasters sound pretty compressed, with clipping in some places. In, say, Pink Floyd, you can practically visualize the drumset from the clarity, and everything is well defined in the soundstage. Not so with the Zep CDs, where everything just seems a bit muddy and muffled; maybe it's just the original production, I dunno. There were a set of Zeppelin CDs that were straight transfers from tape that were released in the 90's and not remasters, but I've never heard them.
 
Jul 24, 2007 at 8:36 PM Post #13 of 20
The sound quality of the remasters is not very good, but there's nothing better available on CD, as far as I know. And I don't think most of the original recordings are too hot anyway, so I doubt we're ever going to get anything the quality of, say, Floyd's DSOTM SACD.

Does anyone know why Led Zeppelin [Boxed Set] (4 discs) and Led Zeppelin [Boxed Set 2] (2 discs), aka the crop-circle sets, together have one more song that Complete Studio Recordings (86 versus 85)? I had thought that Complete (despite its name) had left out "Baby Come on Home," but now I see that that song is in fact present (on the included version of Coda, which is not the same as the version released in '82). So what's the one extra track on the combined boxed sets that's not on Complete?

If you don't care about the songs being arranged as they were originally released, you can probably get the two boxed sets for cheaper than Complete. Amazon has the first boxed set for about $40, and yourmusic.com has it for about $28; the second box set is harder to find, but if you do find it, it'll probably run less than $30.

Eric
 
Jul 24, 2007 at 8:44 PM Post #14 of 20
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Originally Posted by kerelybonto /img/forum/go_quote.gif
The sound quality of the remasters is not very good, but there's nothing better available on CD, as far as I know. And I don't think most of the original recordings are too hot anyway, so I doubt we're ever going to get anything the quality of say, Floyd's DSOTM SACD.

Does anyone know why Led Zeppelin [Boxed Set] (4 discs) and Led Zeppelin [Boxed Set 2] (2 discs), aka the crop-circle sets, together have one more song that Complete Studio Recordings? I had thought that Complete (despite its name) had left out "Baby Come on Home," but now I see that that song is in fact included (on the included version of Coda, which is not the same as the version released in '82). So what's the one extra track on the combined boxed sets that's not on Complete?

If you don't care about the songs being arranged as they were originally released, you can probably get the two boxed sets for cheaper than Complete. Amazon has the first boxed set for about $40, and yourmusic.com has it for about $28; the second box set is harder to find, but if you do find it, it'll probably run less than $30.

Eric


As far as I know, the only difference is that on the "crop circle" boxed sets, Bonzo's Montreaux and Moby Dick are mixed together into one song.

And forgive my ignorance, but what does SACD stand for? Right now all I have of Pink Floyd are digital music store copies (but hey, with my current setup of iPod earbuds with one ear broken (Denon AH-D1000s on their way in theory), I can't tell anyhow).
 
Jul 24, 2007 at 9:07 PM Post #15 of 20
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As far as I know, the only difference is that on the "crop circle" boxed sets, Bonzo's Montreaux and Moby Dick are mixed together into one song.


Ah, I knew it had to be something like that. I noticed that the boxed sets had both "White Summer/Black Mountain Side" and "Black Mountain Side" as separate tracks, and thought that was it, but as I was about to edit my post, I noticed that Complete has the same thing. Thanks for clearing that up, it was bugging me.

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Originally Posted by DBrim /img/forum/go_quote.gif
And forgive my ignorance, but what does SACD stand for? Right now all I have of Pink Floyd are digital music store copies (but hey, with my current setup of iPod earbuds with one ear broken (Denon AH-D1000s on their way in theory), I can't tell anyhow).


SACD stands for "Super Audio CD" -- it's a higher-resolution audio format (like DVD-A, if you know what that is) than ordinary (aka "red-book") CDs. You have to have a special player to play SACD audio, but most SACD (the discs themselves, that is) now come as "hybrids," with a layer of SACD audio and also a layer of red-book audio, which any ordinary CD player will play. The DSOTM SACD is hybrid, so it has a red-book layer that will play in your standard CD-player ... the red-book layer isn't really anything special, though, so probably not worth picking up just for that.

Eric
 
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