Kate bush - hounds of love remastered lp

[Fishtails]

Hi people

After many years of waiting I was very excited about buying the Kate bush hounds of love album.

I am wondering what other owners of this particular pressing think.

For one I don't thinkmthemremastering is anything amazing. Although ANYTHING beats the CD.

also the vinyl is the worst attempt at doing something whacky with a messy blend of purples and pinks.

Now the worst bit is the label !! How nerdy and boring it is. Like a schoolbook label or something.

I think the sound is ok, but are there any others out their who dare to be a bit disappointed by this effort?

[kelvinMunson]

I'm far more interested in the sound rather than what the label looks like; would you say this remasterd version is an improvement in any way over the original, which I already have.

[Fishtails]

No I would not say it was an improvement over the original pressing.

It does help,to,have something that looks nice as well.

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I have the Lovely coloured vinyl of Hounds of love, but also had a second hand copy in very poor condition. I prefer the remastered edition far better than my poor old second hand copy. The sound from the remastered edition is more life like.

Yes i agree they did not need manufacture marble effect vinyl, i did not realise until i opened and first impressions was wow!!

I also have the remastered Sensual World album, but had a great original copy. Now i compared both version playing title track from each without telling or showing my friends if they could tell me which version was i playing, they all remarked and could tell the remastered version over the original though all said the original was very good.

Now i also say the remastered editions of Pink Floyd`s vinyl releases are very good too, the main reason i`m buying new remastered edition`s purely my music taste`s have changed over the year`s also was very young to buy some recordings or not enough money available when certain album`s were released originally.

May be there could be a need in the future for the Fame label or K-tel label to resurface from the ashes to reproduce a cheaper Direct original copy of a original version of a album without remastered or 180g , coloured vinyl or serial numbers on the sleeve and more importantly reasonably priced!!!
So we would have a remastered edition`s for sad people like me and a direct original version how the recording was originally intended in the first place, no frill`s!!

Now all i need to do now is win the lottery and open a record manufacturing plant...... what a dream

[zwhita]

Seconded on the 180G Audio Fidelity master of "The Sensual World" sounding very good. The AF "Hounds of Love" remaster is on my list to buy, as my 80's USA promo copy sounds rather drab and surface noise is a bit higher than I'd like.

[Audio_Man]

OK. For starters all originals of Hounds Of Love I have heard are noisy and on very thin vinyl. As far as SQ is concerned it is OK. For a good pressing the 100th anniversary 180g EMI sounds similar and a better pressing (all analogue). However in spite of it being analogue these seem somewhat cold thin and digital. Frankly the Steve Hoffman AF 'remaster' is a revelation. It sounds warm full and analogue. I am sure it's a much truer representation of the master tape sound. Can't see how anyone would think an original better. OK they could have done away with the coloured vinyl but the original US pressing had this. So being an American label they obviously wanted to be true to the US release.

AF have also done the Sensual World. This is an even bigger improvement over the original. Only criticism of these is QC not as good as it should be with some bad copies being reported and mine having some minor flaws. Both these records sound realy analogue for the first time. Before you would think some digital processing was introduced somewhere.

I can also highly recommend the new CD of The Red Shoes which is from an analogue master tape. It was mixed to both digtal and analogue with digital being used for CD and LP originaly. Kate is an analogue fan. Also get her 2011 releases on vinyl. Both are excellent.