Oasis hi-res remasters - any good?

Posted by: nudgerwilliams on 11 October 2014

Can anybody give me a view on whether these are worth buying?  SQ on the vinyl and CDs is awful to my ears, so was hoping the remasters are significantly better.

 

Thanks

 

David

Posted on: 12 October 2014 by fathings cat

Plenty of reviews on the SH forum. From memory I think it was a less favourable view so I didn't bother.

When the cd version becomes cheap I may consider it for the additional material  but pretty sure it won't sound any better than the original.. 

 

Gary

Posted on: 12 October 2014 by nudgerwilliams

Thanks Gary

 

and apologies for ignoran but what is the SH forum?

 

David

Posted on: 12 October 2014 by Premmyboy

I think that is Steve Hoffman forum.

Posted on: 12 October 2014 by hungryhalibut

And who, pray, is Steve Hoffman?

Posted on: 12 October 2014 by sjbabbey
Originally Posted by Hungryhalibut:

And who, pray, is Steve Hoffman?

He's the man behind MFSL (Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs). 

Posted on: 12 October 2014 by Premmyboy

Steve Hoffman is an audio engineer who Has remastered several so called classic albums on the now defunct DCC label and also worked for other labels on other re issues.

Posted on: 12 October 2014 by TomK

Apart from their first couple of albums is this not the equivalent of gold plating a turd?

Posted on: 13 October 2014 by David O'Higgins

I was interested. I bought 'definitely maybe' on vinyl when it first came out. I never bought the CD. When I read the comments on the High Def version on Steve Hoffman, I bought a used CD instead. The price was 0.10, plus £1.85 postage!

Posted on: 13 October 2014 by nudgerwilliams
Originally Posted by fathings cat:

Plenty of reviews on the SH forum. From memory I think it was a less favourable view so I didn't bother.

When the cd version becomes cheap I may consider it for the additional material  but pretty sure it won't sound any better than the original.. 

 

Gary

Thanks for the tip on the Steve Hoffman forum Gary.  Looks like lots of interesting stuff on there - I can see a few hours being "wasted" following what is on there.

 

Re my originial question, for anybody who is interested, this thread tells you all you need to know about the remasters:

 

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/...84419/#post-11137686

Posted on: 14 October 2014 by Dan43

The reply there from Owen Morris via SH/Oasis link is very open, using the noise for the original mix. Perhaps we get overheated about the quality of some albums and if we heard the reasons for their original mix we might take a different view.

Perhaps after all we have to accept that time pressure, money issues, perhaps no one thought the songs were any good, all come into the reason a certain album is poor technically, so we should be more grateful they actually exist at all, let alone exist in the purest/best form available. Human frailty and just bad decision making are allowed I guess.

Its a good honest response, liner notes/pdf inserts should have such honesty in them, maybe....

 

Posted on: 14 October 2014 by james n

I always associate Oasis with a lo-fi approach - Part of the appeal of the music really.

 

This seems like a money making exercise rather than achieving anything useful. 

Posted on: 15 October 2014 by BigH47

Seems like a waste of time to me, but one could say that about many of these "new" old releases.