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Title: Overall the Smoothest Sounding Version Yet
Review: Taking into account all that has been said here and elsewhere about this reissue, I agree with the positives more than the negatives. The new remaster absolutely sounds cleaner to me than any other version of Quadrophenia, particularly the bass and drums. Yes, the guitars and keyboards are not as prominent, but that may be partially because the rhythm section was never this clear before. I have to hope that since Pete signed off on this, it's the way he envisioned it. After all, his instruments are the ones seemingly lower in the mix.As for not using the original vinyl mix as originally announced, there's a post on Amazon UK's page for this item which states that Jon Astley, who coordinated the remaster, found those tapes to be sonically unacceptable when compared to the 1996 CD masters. The decision was therefore made to polish the latter for the re-release. I leave it to others to debate the technical aspects of this.
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