Yes 'Fragile' - New Steven Wilson Remaster

Posted by: J.N. on 04 November 2015

My CD/DVD-A copy arrived today (thanks Burning Shedsters). Another corking remix/remaster from our Steven showing how it should be done. Dynamic swing and analogue-like smoothness retained, with more detail extracted. That glorious Chris Squire bass still prances, growls and bites. It's just been fattened up a tad. Perfect. Such a shame that Mr Squire is no longer with us. I hope he got to hear the new mix.

 

Got your copy yet Doug?

 

John.

Posted on: 17 November 2015 by KRM
Originally Posted by Harry:

I ordered this while on my travels and it got here today. Fifty seven slices of prog porn to drool over - lovely.

 

I don't think the remix works this time round. Lovely clarity but the suppressed bass robs the album of it's edge and atmosphere. I don't mind the Rhino versions so that's some compensation for the unappealing (to me) Wilson mix. They sound pretty good too, if a bit rough. But what sounds best to me are the transfers from the original masters. I'll have to go through it all again a couple of times to see what settles - poor me!

 

The tagging was easy. DVD Audio Extractor showed me what was in each Chapter (if it wasn't obvious already). A nice collection to have but the remix won't be my go to version.

 

The BD disc was scratched. Looks like it was damaged when it was inserted into the cardboard sleeve - why do they do this? It's stupid. So a replacement will cross over with the scratched one and I'll put it unopened on a shelf. for posterity.

Hi Harry,

 

Did you need to unlock the Blu-Ray disc before ripping it? I've never got round to understanding how to do that so I buy the DVD A versions.

 

Keith

Posted on: 18 November 2015 by tonym

You do need to unlock the BluRay disc Keith. I use AnyDVD HD for the purpose, but it only runs on a PC so I use a PC laptop just for this, and rip using DVD Audio Extractor, or Handbrake for films. There are other alternatives but I find these ones the best. I've several music BluRays and IIRC only one of them is free from copy protection.

Posted on: 18 November 2015 by Harry

As above Keith. I use AnyDVD-HD to unlock the Blu-Ray which it does on the fly and pretty much invisibly. I then use DVD Audio Extractor to look at the continence. If I hit the play button on DVD Audio Extractor the content of the selected chapter plays and the visual captions show  on screen as they would on a TV, which is a good way of checking what you are about to rip. I'm all PC based here.