The Empress Valley Led Zeppelin box arrives

Well…first of all, its about the quality. When compared to T2K, I found almost no EQ or just a little bit of remastering but if even, the way of how it was done is great. The sound is for most part subtle, favouring soft mid frequencies and nice bass line in opposite to heavy tweaked T2K with its increased high end and clipping because of hard limitation on peak levels. Second, the way of how EV did source transmission is great also. It’s just like many of fan dedicated projects where people outside the board are making the best to provide most complete and best sounding versions of many shows. Again, T2K’s transitions are very raw and sometimes it’s completely unprofessionally edited, when one source suddenly drops into another and vice versa. Maybe I am too advanced in listening now but to my ears it’s very important to have a smooth and subtle transitions, even if any of sources may be excluded because of that – I do not care really if I am about to hear a properly edited audio. Third, the price. I still believe that $650 or $700 is much better and much more affordable price than super duper guitar case cover book for $1200 or so and when add all issues that plagued T2K, EV is a winner and there’s no doubt on it.