Master Puppets Remastered Metallica Reviews Summary

Sound Quality

Pros:

• "Sounds great, it's like I'm hearing things in the tracks I've never heard before, and with more impact."
• "This sounds fantastic barely ANY surface noise whatsoever and the sound blasts through the speakers crisp, clear and the BEST I have ever heard it."
• "It sounds amazing on my new music hall turntable, best sounding album I've listened to on it so far."
• "Superb remaster! I can’t understand how anyone cannot hear the difference."
• "The quality of the CD is great, nice and clear."
• "This version of the breakthrough and landmark album is amazing sounding."
• "It's the greatest metal album of all time."

Cons:

• "The pressing is very poor and ive had many issues out of the box, it skipped midway through the track disposable heroes for me."
• "Do not buy this pressing (Blackened Recordings)...sounds horrible and skips."
• "First off it skips a ton and secondly it sounds horrible. This is the first vinyl I have bought that sounds an AM radio station."
• "The sound from this 'Remastered' Vinyl is so flat that it's sad and cringe worthy."
• "The audio is extremely compressed."
• "Everything sounds compressed, flat and lacking in dynamics."
• "The sound quality of the vinyl is not so good. Its very low."

Packaging and Shipping

Pros:

• "It has a nice one side transparent, one side wax type paper backed poly lined inner sleeve."
• "The packaging and print is of high quality. It looks absolutely awesome."
• "It arrived on time and in really good condition."
• "Came in a double box, so it arrived safely."
• "Shipped in lp mailer, jacket arrived perfect."
• "Arrived in 2 days as does all Prime shipments."
• "Arrived early which made me happy cause I thought it would come just days after Christmas."

Cons:

• "Great sound and great album but came with a dent in the top right corner of the cover and multiple scratches on the cover."
• "However, this CD came in a bent up flimsy wallet style thin cardboard case."
• "The packaging for the single discs is extremely cheap."
• "Album is great, but to send three CD's in a flimsy jiffy bag from Germany can only result in one thing - broken CD cases!"
• "All you get for this remaster is a cardboard sleeve which doesn't protect the cd, or linear booklet."
• "Again the product showed up with bent corners o the album cover."
• "Record was shipped not in the typical record media box, but loose in a larger box."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "I paid $5 for this re-mastered version. What an unbelievably low price!"
• "$5.99 for an upgrade of one of the greatest metal albums of all time? Sure why not?"
• "Incredible record for $18.99!"
• "Shopped around and Amazon offered a very competitive price on this album."
• "Probably hard to beat for the price."

Cons:

• "Money wasted and there is no way to get a refund on CDs."
• "It's a shame because this is possibly my favorite album of all time and was looking forward to finally adding my favorite Metallica album to my collection, and it turns out to be this junk."
• "I am shocked that they released this album in this poor of quality."
• "This arrived brand new with significant warping rendering the vinyl unplayable."
• "The 2 bonus CD's have demos and live tracks which are interesting but they sound TERRIBLE."