Use Your Illusion--original albums vs. remasters

[RichardNixon]

Which do you prefer? 

Edited December 6, 2022 by RichardNixon

[darkside259]

whats with the tittle?

[©GnrPersia]

2 hours ago, RichardNixon said:

Which do you prefer? 

Is there a difference?

[RichardNixon]

2 hours ago, darkside259 said:

whats with the tittle?

I don't know. I submitted the post wrong and fixed it. Sorry about that. 

[Stay.Of.Execution]

I'm too bored with this topic to even vote for one

[Gordon Comstock]

I still haven't bothered to listen to the remasters, except November Rain...

[RichardNixon]

1 hour ago, Stay.Of.Execution said:

I'm too bored with this topic to even vote for one

Thanks for the feedback.

[ChristmasFnatic]

Honestly, I cant hear the difference. I tried listening to several songs back to back(OG to Remaster).

[gavgnr]

I like the fact that the rhythm guitar and backing vocals are more prominent in the remasters. But I dislike the  ‘loudness’ of the mix. Overall, prefer the originals

Would have been cool to hear the Clearmount mixes but what ya gonna do?

[Jw224]

Slight EQ changes and lots more compression, no thanks.

[WhazUp]

Remaster is too compressed for my ears, ear fatigue on headphones not even 2 songs in at a moderate volume

Originals - however if the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab digital versions were an option they would be my pick

[guitarpatch]

The MFSL CDs are still the best versions. These remasters do cause ear fatigue after a few songs. Kind of disappointing on that level. Even if we got the album remixed, it would have been unfortunate if they were mastered in this fashion 
 

The best thing about this release is the live stuff and the blu ray. Perhaps it convinces them to dig into their live vault a bit more 

[Atlas19]

I don't feel the difference, except for November Rain of course

[Nintari]

This poll results so far smack of (no offense to those who voted for the remasters) recency bias and ignorance. Check the dynamic range of these discs. They're crushed. The originals are empirically superior.

The only thing the remasters are good for is for studying textures and the different odds and ends that went into making them.

But the sound quality?

No way.

[t-p-d-a]

Remaster because it's new

[Jw224]

21 hours ago, Nintari said:

This poll results so far smack of (no offense to those who voted for the remasters) recency bias and ignorance. Check the dynamic range of these discs. They're crushed. The originals are empirically superior.

The only thing the remasters are good for is for studying textures and the different odds and ends that went into making them.

But the sound quality?

No way.

Usually when something is louder people just take it as being better at face value without listening more closely because louder does sound better to human ears at first.