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Title: Masterpiece Albums - Less Great Mastering Job
Review: The five albums by Stevie that Motown chose to remaster are five of the greatest pieces of music ever created (in my humble opinion...) Just wanna' say however that they blew a once in a lifetime opportunity with the remastering of these albums. Whoever they got to do the re-mastering must have some high-end hearing loss, because he tweaked the highs way too much, perhaps trying to go for a contemporary R&B, over-hyped sound. It's pretty consistent across all the new CDs, which I eagerly bought - a sharp, brittle high end. And too much compression as well, sort of squishing the life out of the tunes. I'm just thankful I bought a copy of Mobile Fidelity's Gold Master's Series "Innervisions" before they went out of print. To my ear, that's what all Stevie's records should sound like. And for now, I'll happily keep listening to the original versions of all these classic albums.
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