Led Zeppelin-newly remastered

Metralla, but I thought the Page transfers were spectacular. I might not have expressed that quite right. I will be spinning the Mothership CDs this week, but I need to treat them first. :-) Geoff

I guess its time to dust these off for another listen,
my system has changed considerably since last listen to the 10 CD box. My recollection is that I was not at all
satisfied, but I will listen again and try to elaborate
on that. My Zep vinyl has been treating me well though.
Most all classic records 180 & 200 gram.

I've only listened to Mothership once since I got it, but I was pretty favorably impressed with the sound. I concur with Amansker's take on the nature of the improvements.

Amansker, if you have the original transfers from the '80s, then you have Barry Diament's mastering on all but 1 - Joe Sidore mastered LZ IV. Except for the compilation by Dave Collins I mentioned above, these are by far the best digital transfers.

The later remasters by Marino, and the final digital transfers by Jimmy Page, are not as good as the originals.

Now with the Mothership, there has been some very fancy fiddling in the digital domain by John Davis at Alchemy Mastering using Page's digital transfers to produce the sound you are hearing. You might wonder how they managed to get that drum sound.

I'm happy you are enjoying Mothership. I just want to remind readers that no one went back to the original analogue tapes and remastered them. They took Jimmy's digital transfers and worked some magic on them.

Regards,

All I can say is Led Zeppelin/Led Zeppelin is one of my all time greatest albums and coming home tonight they played Dazed and Confused off the new Mothership and even on my crappy Cd player in my truck i could here the cybmbal clear as day which is often muted on my Vinyl. It sounded great but because as everyone is saying about the song selection on MOTHERSHIP I will wait to pick up the remastered offerings of 1,2,3 and 4 when they are released. For what its worth I think MFSL did an admiral job with Led Zeppelin II.In it's day it was the best version available and probably has been bettered by now.