Remastering on Complete Song Collection Box or Other CDs?

[DBZfan29]

I like to buy CDs in their original pressing since rereleases tend to suffer from crappy remastering. Were the Hit Song Collection reissues or the songs included on the Complete Song Collections or chozenshu box remastered in any way? In Mike's feature, it says they are left in tact, but the sets are pretty old now so someone may have noticed a thing or two.

[Kojiro Sasaki]

I like to buy CDs in their original pressing since rereleases tend to suffer from crappy remastering. Were the Hit Song Collection reissues or the songs included on the Complete Song Collections or chozenshu box remastered in any way? In Mike's feature, it says they are left in tact, but the sets are pretty old now so someone may have noticed a thing or two.

In most cases, new releases suffer from heavy dynamic range compression which is required to make them sound LOUDERRRR. That's actually the most important part of the so-called remastering, because when you compare quiet recording to a loud one, your ear will always tell you that the louder one sounds better. There are other reasons like making all the different records to play at the same volume, which is very important for casual (and not only) listeners in today's digital era.

Back in the days, I always checked the first pressings and all available remasters, but after hundreds of CDs and records picked with the use of this method, I always get the first pressing without even checking it. If I notice that there is something wrong with it - then I think about the remasters.

The situation with Dragon Ball songs looks like this:

ドラゴンボールZ ヒット曲集 / Hit Song Collection (1989, CC-3768)

Spoiler:

ドラゴンボールZ CD-BOX最強音盤伝説 / Complete Song Collection Box (CD1) (2008, COCX-34814)

Spoiler:

Take the first pressing

[DBZfan29]

Yeah. I feared there'd be an attempt to brick wall. I own ZARD's CDs, including original albums and remastered sets, so I worried that Japan suffered from loudness too. This is good to know. It's not that bad, but I'll probably look for all the older sets used. Would you happen to know if the Hit Song Collection reissues were also altered?