best version of selected ambient works 85-92?

so the original was released in 1992.

in 2006, r&s released a remastered vinyl.

and in 2008, there was another digitally remastered version.

which sounds best?

I prefer selected ambient works 84 - 91.

Remasters are NEVER better, so the original version is the only one I have, don't even want to hear those remasters, although I understand there is almost no difference.

I wonder if the remasters are OK with Richard himself, R&S did all the remastering and did a repress. Also he had said before about R&S that they're milking him because of the Classics compilation, even with his disapproval.

I have some other artists' remasters that I like better. But from what I've heard of R&S "remastering" all their shit lately, it's not worth it. The OG edition is already very nice.

there's a significant difference in the 2006 remaster. i haven't heard the 2008 yet, though.

2006 > original

  On 11/18/2010 at 10:55 PM, chaosmachine said:

there's a significant difference in the 2006 remaster. i haven't heard the 2008 yet, though.

the biggest difference can probably be heard on xtal.

2006 vinyl is delicious.

i remember someone here posting a pic of a DAT

  On 11/19/2010 at 8:05 PM, Calx Sherbet said:

i remember someone here posting a pic of a DAT

It was from R & S Records

just get one of the first recordings from discogs, its not that expensive and better than those 192kb rips that float around the internet

  On 11/19/2010 at 7:40 PM, AcrossCanyons said:

2006 vinyl is delicious.

i hadn't listened to this album in ages

it's really fucking good isn't it

schottkey has always made me picture this hefty android, stomping around in a circle and malfunctioning.

The first pressing seems to be mastered the loudest but mine is quite crackly, could be down to the condition of that specific copy of course. I have a repress (AMBLP 3902) that seems to sound slightly more "polite" but still unadultered. The 2006 remaster to me sounds like some elements of the tracks have been removed as being noise, where they could just as well be considered part of the music.

Does the 2008 remaster sound like the original?