Click to expand. The 2000-ish remasters are ultra-compressed and sound horrible. The old AAD CDs have much better sound quality and dynamic range. IIRC, at least one of the AAD CDs actually has a higher DR score than the HDtracks version. My original LPs have some issues (crappy vinyl quality, pops/clicks, warping, off-center) but the 3 RTI pressings I have are sublime. I can see no reason to spend this much to purchase these albums again. For vinyl I love the RTI reissues.

For digital stick with the AAD CDs. They're cheap and easy to find. The 2000-ish remasters are ultra-compressed and sound horrible. The old AAD CDs have much better sound quality and dynamic range. IIRC, at least one of the AAD CDs actually has a higher DR score than the HDtracks version.

The classic albums Van Halen II, Women and Children First, Diver Down, and Fair Warning have been remastered on CD and 180-gram vinyl and are out today.

My original LPs have some issues (crappy vinyl quality, pops/clicks, warping, off-center) but the 3 RTI pressings I have are sublime. I can see no reason to spend this much to purchase these albums again.

For vinyl I love the RTI reissues. For digital stick with the AAD CDs. They're cheap and easy to find. Serial key for windows blinds The 2000-ish remasters are ultra-compressed and sound horrible. The old AAD CDs have much better sound quality and dynamic range. IIRC, at least one of the AAD CDs actually has a higher DR score than the HDtracks version. My original LPs have some issues (crappy vinyl quality, pops/clicks, warping, off-center) but the 3 RTI pressings I have are sublime.

I can see no reason to spend this much to purchase these albums again. For vinyl I love the RTI reissues.

For digital stick with the AAD CDs. They're cheap and easy to find. Click to expand.The hi-res versions very well may have better SQ than the AADs. I listened to the brief clips on the HDtracks website and they sound just fine to me. I wish I could listen to them all in hi-res before taking the financial plunge.

And at this point they're only sold as a set at $80 ~ $110. You're getting a lot of music, but it's still a chunk of change. So yeah, I speculate that people that already have good vinyl pressings and/or the AAD CDs could probably pass on this one. I would love to proved wrong though. I'll wait for more reviews first. Click to expand.Strange.

I am only interested in these because of some people's complaints about the lack of low end, specifically on the original Diver Down and 1984 CDs (but which I personally never had a problem with). Like HD up above, I really like all the original CDs. Not a big fan of the DCC for the 1st one because the timings in between all the tracks were all changed. I think that the HDTracks versions of CTTE and TYA are very nice actually. Fragile sucks because it's from the DVD-A and is EQ'ed funny and is compressed. (I now like the MFSL the best for Fragile, although lp might be the way to go for that one.) I have a friend whose ears I almost trust more than my own, and he says that indeed their GFTO is too bright.

'Best Of Volume 1' is the first greatest hits album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released in 1996. The material is from nine of the band's first ten studio albums, omitting songs from the band's fifth album 'Diver Down'. 'Best of Volume 1' also features 'Humans Being,' the band's contribution to the movie 'Twister' soundtrack. The two newly recorded songs, 'Can't Get This Stuff No More' and 'Me Wise Magic,' at the end of the album are with original lead vocalist David Lee Roth. These two songs were released as singles to promote this compilation.

The Van Halen brothers would not record again with Roth until the album 'A Different Kind Of Truth', released in 2012. Michael Anthony has not played with Van Halen since the band's 2004 tour.

Initial pressings of the album contained an alternate edit of 'Runnin' With The Devil' (included in this version) where the verses, chorus and solos were arranged in a different order than that of the original album version. It was reported that this was accidental and subsequent pressings have replaced this version with the one found on Van Halen.

However, some radio stations still play this erroneous version of the song. The Japanese version also includes a bonus track 'Hot For Teacher'. The album itself, while not controversial, sparked a great deal of in-band controversy because of the personnel issues surrounding the band at the time.