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Title: Remastered version is not essential
Review: **Note that this refers to the 2004 remaster of Presto, and not the original 1989 album.Presto is one of my favorite Rush albums and easily gets a five-star rating from me. And while the album's sound is quite tinny and flat, no amount of remastering is going to fix that.The sound quality on the remastered CD is better and clearer, I guess, but not much. Soon after I bought this, in fact, I mixed up the original CD and the remaster and could not tell which was which (the CD itself, artwork and packaging are exactly the same as in the original, with no mention of the remastering). I had to figure out the remaster from the original just by listening to the sound quality, and it was not easy to tell the two apart.I think I was eventually successful, but the fact that I couldn't really tell which version was which speaks volumes about how essential this is.
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