Expert: Skeeter - 2/19/2007

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I don't understand why some of the great albums of the classic rock era have not been given the 24 bit remastering treatment, or even better, reissued as deluxe editions like the Allman Brothers Band or Santana Legacy Editions.  

I am particularly interested in The Doobie Brothers classic albums (The Captain & Me, etc.), Alice Cooper's "Killer", and Joe Walsh's "The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get."
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 To be honest with you, I cannot see where it is neccesary.  I have Killer and some of the Doobies rock era stuff.  
 I have a  lot of CDs from when rock was happening and I haven't found one yet that was not good quality sound.  They are certainly better than the vinyl versions.   The only sound quality I don't like is modern music that is recorded on computers and MP3 quality.    MP3s don't have the fidelity of Cds and tend to be a bit midrangy and harsh sounding.

I appreciate your honest opinion, but I have a different view.  I like to compile my own best of CDs and when I record songs from a remastered CD and then record songs from a normal anolag to digital recording there is a distinct difference.  I also like all the extras that they but on these deluxe editions such as live tracks, single versions, b-sides, etc.  Anyway, my question is do you have any inside knowledge of why they aren't coming out with remastered editions of these classics?

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  I thought I had already answered this but EXPERTS is saying I did not.
 I don't know why they aren't remastering them to 24 bit other than that they likely don't see it neccesary.  Remastering is not at all cheap.  I have only had one rock era CD that I thought was not as good of mastering as the original vinyl, aside from that one instance every CD I have sounds far better than the vinyl.