Black Sabbath - The Ten Year War Deluxe Boxset

I know that Black Sabbath have released lots and lots of reissues on their records. And I was not happy at all with their 2015 reissues, in my opinion they sounded to compressed. But I am very curious on this boxset called The Ten Year War.

Does anyone here own it and can give me your opinions on the sound quality? Is it worth the money?

 

No comments at all...?

 

Not sure if you did a search - but this link might get you to a thread where that box set is discussed:
New Black Sabbath! [Vinyl Box Set] 2017

 

Thanks! I tried to do a search, but could not find it!

 

It uses the same mastering as this earlier (2012) LP box set:
Black Sabbath - The Vinyl Collection 1970-1978

and this hi-res digital release:
Black Sabbath - The Complete Albums 1970-1978

and the 2016 WB/Rhino CD releases.

I don't have the LPs, just the digital files. Sound is not brickwalled, but super-bright, super-detailed. Some people like it. Many others, especially those who are familar with the sound of the original LPs, don't, because these albums were supposed to sound much darker and warmer than they do on these re-releases. Paranoid sounds great though, even though it is too bright. With some EQ, it would be fantastic. The artwork of the LPs is said to be superb. But if you're looking for vinyl and you want the best sound, I'd rather recommend getting early LPs.

Which 2015 releases are you referring to?

 

It is a new mastering by Andy Pearce.
BLACK SABBATH’S TEN YEAR WAR - THE ULTIMATE GUIDE - The Audiophile Man

 

https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Year-War-BLACK-SABBATH/dp/B075YB5L3T

 

Black Sabbath - The Ten Year War

 

For anyone not interested in the vinyl or box set as such. There is a copy of the book for sale on ebay
Black Sabbath Ten Year War Hard Back Photo Book Limited Edition !!!SALE PRICE!!! | eBay

 

In short, I’ve got the Rhino 2010/11 and the Sanctuary 2015 reissues, and also the 2016 Rhino deluxe editions of the three first albums but the Ten year war LPs are the best in my opinion!

 

I agree..... the best Andy Pearce remasters of the Ozzy years.

 

Album review: BLACK SABBATH – The Ten Year War (Box Set)

 

Whatever they say and write to make it sound like the TYW releases contain a fresh mastering - it doesn't. It has long been established by many people here and elsewhere that the TYW box contains the same 2012 remasters that were, indeed, done by Andy Pearce - in 2012, for the 2012 vinyl box. The same mastering re-appeared, this time in digital form but apparently with vinyl moves (like a narrowed bass stereo image) baked into the mastering, on the 2014 HDtracks hi-res online releases and the 2016 WB/Rhino-CDs; and finally made it, in both digital and analog form, to the 2012 TYW box set and online releases. It is a beautiful box, but the sound of its musical content is neither new, nor is it even close to how these albums were originally supposed to sound like (and did sound, on the original vinyl LPs). Far too bright. (I don't know the 2010/11 Rhino LPs, my reference are early LP pressings and other digital releases.) All the stuff they are saying along the lines of "we compared to the original LPs to come close to, while improving on, the original sound" is pure marketing blabla.