Queen Vinyl Reissues For 2015 (including boxed set and turntable)*

I can't imagine any circumstances under which Queen would pay Ludwig to do 24bit mastering of their catalogue again, when he did just that a few years ago. Even The Beatles used the same remasters (with some tweaking) for their stereo vinyl box a few years after the CDs. ...And Queen are notoriously lazy with this sort of stuff. Attention to detail / fan focus has not been their strong suit of late.

So that leaves me a little skeptical about whether Queen would go to effort of the extra tweaking that The Beatles box featured.

I would really like to know whether Queen followed the Beatles lead and removed the compression/hard limiting, which dogged the Ludwig 2011 remasters. For me, that will make the difference between shelling out or not shelling out for this box.

 

It is noisier.

http://www.recordindustry.com/vinyl/colored-vinyl

 

Garbage

It is noiser.

Black vinyl is not coloured, it has carbon in it.

see above details from recordindustry pressing plant re coloured vinyl.

 

What color do you think the vinyl is to begin with?

 

Between the last round of Zep deluxe sets, the Bowie set and now this it seems like Christmas is coming early! This is a no brainer for me!

 

Nice and polite I see.

So, a link to one manufacturer is what you go by?

It's the quality of the vinyl used. There's plenty of black vinyl that is utter crap. The problem with some colored vinyl is that manufacturers will often use recycled (LOWER quality) vinyl to make them. You'll find this with low quality black vinyl too.

Quality color LP's are indistinguishable aside from other colors being harder to see scratches and grooves.

Believe what ya like.

 

It's these high quality reissues that make me wish that the original recordings of their early to mid '70s material were better. They must've turned the input gain on those up to 100 dB.

 

The colouring material used to blacken the transparent PVC plastic mix is carbon black, the generic name for the finely divided carbon particles produced by the incomplete burning of a mineral oil based hydrocarbon. Carbon black increases the strength of the disc and renders it opaque. It is a homogenizing agent which helps reduce surface noise to a good extent.

Was that a retorhical question?

 

Of course there is lots of crap black vinyl. That has everything to do with QC than the colour.

I buy a lot of vinyl , have a resolving system and coloured vinyl by far has the greater % of noise compared to black vinyl.

believe what you want, but with blanket statements like yours may indicate you may not buy much music on vinyl.

 

The PVC is transparent.

 

You got me pegged! Vinyl is for hipsters. I mainly just listen to 128 kb MP3's. It all sounds the same to me.

 

If that includes the turntable, actually, not that bad a deal.

 

Turntable is not included.

 

No. It must be noisier. Some guy found a link to a site on the internet that says so.

 

And he calls himself turntable, so he must know.

 

lol no

 

15 colored vinyl albums in a box, some being double, a hardbound book and a custom Rega turntable for $445...sounds about right.

 

Well, if you get all that in your cart, it will be one of the greatest internet purchases of all time!

 

Hey all!
I didn't see any thread about this, so I made one myself.

A new box set is coming out!
http://www.queenonlinestore.com/Que...Collection-Coloured-Vinyl-Box-Set/4O1C056O071

It will include all the albums (not the live recordings or greatest hits). Innuendo and Made in Heaven will be split into two records. Mastered by Bob Ludwig at half speed.

The bad?
Sourced from the original master tapes - ehm, 96/24 digital copies of them, apparently because "the originals needed restorations".
Colored vinyl. The claim they used a new material that shouldn't ruin the sound, will it be true?
Pricey. 285 GBP / 400 Eur.

All the albums will be available separately on black vinyl, the press release says. Mmm.... interesting! I'm actually thinking about getting the individual ones.

 

There are a few threads already. I think there were 5 yesterday. Sorry. Hopefully the gorts have combined them.


http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threa...set-and-turntable.449026/page-2#post-12662929

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/queen-vinyl-reissues-for-2015.397418/page-2#post-12664257

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/queen-box-set-coming-september-2015.449048/#post-12662823

 

Man... things like this make me so jealous that I collect CD's instead of Vinyl. I can only imagine how downloaders and streamers feel. I still like to see more bands and artists do things like this and raise the standard of what music collectors expect from reissues.

 

Has anyone pre-orders this from their website yet? https://www.queenonlinestore.com/*/*/Queen-The-Studio-Collection-Coloured-Vinyl-Box-Set/4O1C0000000

Just wondering if you got charged immediately or if they charge when they ship?

 

I just went to the official store. What you say is true if you buy in pounds.
But if you switch the currency to Euros it is the other way around: it is way less expensive to buy the Lps individually than to buy the box.

Actually what is going is that the indiviual Lps are less expensive in Euros than in Pounds or in Dollars. While the box is approximately the same price in each three currencies.

 

I said f**k it and pre-ordered too. As I said in my own thread on the subject, all I have at present is a Queen Greatest Hits compilation on CD so it'd be nice to experience their genius properly - as full albums.

 

I haven't pre-ordered yet. Wanted to do it from Amazon but it's not up there yet. Did they charge your card immediatly after your pre-order? Might as well do it from their website but I get paid next week, don't have the cash right now