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MUSIC<br />
Audiophile<br />
Pressings<br />
No Stairway<br />
Led Zeppelin<br />
Super Deluxe Editions<br />
Atlantic, 180g multi-LP/multi-CD/download<br />
box sets<br />
High-res downloads also available separately<br />
from HD Tracks<br />
Well, there’s no<br />
stairway yet, but Jimmy Page informed<br />
us in a recent press conference that<br />
he is going to oversee the rest of the<br />
Led Zeppelin catalog and release it in<br />
the same grandiose fashion achieved<br />
on the recently released Super Deluxe<br />
Edition reissues of the band’s first three<br />
records. Yes, $140 is a lot of money for<br />
a single album, but there is quite a bit<br />
more included with the price—namely, a<br />
“companion” album featuring outtakes,<br />
matching CDs of the original and<br />
companion album, 24/96 downloads,<br />
a book and memorabilia.<br />
Using the original analog masters,<br />
Page worked with Metropolis mastering<br />
in London, trying to get as much information<br />
as possible out of tapes now<br />
more than 45 years old. Analog enthusiasts<br />
often talk about tape degradation,<br />
and I suspect that’s probably a big part<br />
of what’s happened to these classic<br />
records. (continued)<br />
88 TONE AUDIO NO.64<br />
July 2014 89
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