A Night at the Opera - Remaster Review

Well, since you have this DCC version...care to post a snippet of a song? Just for comparison.

For someone long awaited for someone  became a  disappointment. But we can not accept that it's better than nothing.

Rick, I've never posted samples before. 
How would I do that? If you can send me a "how to", I'll have a go.

What would this achieve though? The quality would be diminished wouldn't it?

Not at all.  If you rip a CD to WAV format, the quality will be identical.  If you're using a PC, you can use Windows Media Player to do a quick rip of a track.  From there you can use a freeware program like Audacity to cut out a part of it.

Here are some soundsample's from the DCC 'A Night At The Opera'

Judge for yourself about the sound, but I think this a way better than the 2011/2005 remaster.
But that's just an opinion!

And here is a link from Steve Hoffman website:

http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/archive/index.php/t-101890.html

In this forum the Steve Hoffman remaster is discussed against some other remasters of the same album.

A have no issue with them using the 2005 remaster for the 2011 release. However, the fact that they appear to be trying to cloak this fact is despicable.

At least with the pointless Deep Cuts release, fans can quickly scan over the tracks, instantly realise that it serves no real purpose, and choose not to buy it. However you don't have that luxury with ANATO 2011.

It bothers me greatly that the it says explicit that it's a "2011 remaster". I can't help but think it's simply an underhanded and dishonest ploy to dupe fans into buying something they don't need.

....and the music industry wonders why people download.... :-X

(Hi all, by the way!! This is my first post.)

......and you're surprised by this?  After all, it's the Queen catalogue we are talking about here - a joke.

The funniest thing of all for me is that they have used the term "Bonus EP" for the additional tracks on the Deluxe editions.  Given Brian's amazing dedication to saving or reducing the impact on the world's natural resources, surely they could have simply added the bonus material to the disc that holds the original album tracks and prevented needless waste........

Apparently badgers and foxes use discarded CDs as nesting material during the cold winter months.

Brian's always thinking ahead.

^ Making the title 'Deep Cuts' somewhat prescient.

Poor foxes.  Poor badgers. Sniff.

Hey guys, I've been browsing around trying to see what others are thinking about these remasters... I wasn't aware that this wasn't a 2011 remaster until I just read it here, but regardless, I'm hearing weirdness already just quickly listening through "death on two legs"... 

anybody notice that the drums sound screwed up when they first enter?  sounds like a bad edit, or tape gone bad, or who knows... it just sounds wrong.  I checked the hollywood release and it's fine.

The 2005 Opera remaster was done by Bob Ludwig. I have the 30th Anniversary. The DVD version and the single CD version. I didn't buy the LP unfortunately but this was the start of the Ludwig remastering program I'm pretty sure! So the 2011 remaster is the 2005 EMI remaster in new clothing! While the standard CD version sounds good, the DVD-A is stunning!

I just listened to A.N.A.T.O. 2011 and it is the best of the all the remasters. I really enjoyed it like never before! I even played the 'Prophet Song' to my 13 year old daughter and she liked the vocal section an was probably amazed or probably disturbed!